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From French Soldier to ISIS Spymaster

Cloak & Dagger

It’s been almost six months since The Daily Beast exposed Abu Suleyman al-Firansi. Now new details are emerging that can tell us a lot about ISIS’s organization.

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Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast

The photograph is nearly a decade old, but it is not difficult to imagine that the young man staring inscrutably into the camera, his face bathed in the white light of a flash, now looks much older.

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