Joby Warrick

Thanks @michaelpbrill.bsky.social for coming by for a visit! Really enjoyed the conversation and am looking forward to following your important Iraqi and Syrian research.

I was horrified recently to learn that an Italian student traveling in Iraq was detained because he happened to be carrying my book Black Flags. Happily @Marco_pic99 is back home & safe. W/ help from @lanavediteseoed @bettywrong he has a new signed copy of the Italian edition!

Inspired by ISIS: From a Taylor Swift plot in Vienna to carnage in New Orleans In the Bourbon Street rampage, a foiled attack on a European pop concert and other attacks, a pattern of self-radicalization breeds terrorists influenced by ISIS.

One would-be terrorist dreamed of bombing a Taylor Swift concert. Another concocted a plan to unleash mayhem in New Orleans. The common thread: ISIS provided inspiration and a “cause” for wanton violence. Our look at how radicalization works in the social-media age, w/ @smekhennet
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More than 360 tons of mustard gas. A swimming pool of sarin precursors lost "due to traffic accidents." The race is on to find Syria's missing chemical weapons, and @jobywarrick.bsky.social tells you everything you need to know. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Assad’s collapse triggers race to find missing chemical weapons The Assad regime hid some of its deadly nerve agents from inspectors. With Syria in chaos, finding out what happened to the arsenal is a top priority.

Assad’s collapse has triggered a race to find missing chemical weapons, including more than 360 tons of mustard gas and five tons of missing precursors for the nerve agent sarin. Securing whatever remains is now a top priority for Syria's neighbors & other countries. @jobywarrick.bsky.social

Satellite images show major expansion at Russian site with secret bioweapons past New construction at a military research site near Moscow reveals a specialized laboratory complex designed to research and handle deadly pathogens, experts say.

This article follows up on, and adds more details, to the great piece by @jobywarrick.bsky.social that orignally broke the story that Russia was building a larger BSL-4 lab complex at Sergiev Posad
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Amid Syria’s upheaval, a wariness over the rebels’ Islamist roots A string of stunning victories has spurred White House worries about a “catastrophic success” in Syria if Islamist fighters gain control. But experts say the rebels have changed.

Syria's brutal dictator is gone. Here's one reason why the road ahead may not be an easy one. Our take, with
@nakashimae

Amid Syria’s upheaval, a wariness over the rebels’ Islamist roots wapo.st/4g8VFWk

Thanks, @spytalker.bsky.social !

A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy’s death I wrote about my great-uncle Foster Stevens, who was killed nine days before the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended World War I. Now we know about the man who was with him when he died.

A simply amazing story from @jobywarrick.bsky.social of the @washingtonpost.com that grabs you with four words — "The family was mine." — and never lets you go. wapo.st/4eEBuxE

A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy’s death I wrote about my great-uncle Foster Stevens, who was killed nine days before the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended World War I. Now we know about the man who was with him when he died.

"'We’ll just soldier through this, me and you,' Stevens had said in his mild North Carolina drawl as he put an arm around Scarbrough... 'I’ll be right here.'"

Lovely, sweet, sad story by @jobywarrick.bsky.social about friendship in war, and final moments revealed decades later.
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A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy’s death I wrote about my great-uncle Foster Stevens, who was killed nine days before the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended World War I. Now we know about the man who was with him when he died.

Two Marines forged a friendship on the battlefields of World War I. One died in combat. A century later, the survivor’s recorded memories bring a long-delayed closure. A personal story for me and my family, new today.
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