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Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who has been identified by French authorities as the chief organiser of the Paris attacks
Early in 2014, Isil released one of its first videos. Largely unseen in Europe, it had neither the slick, cutting-edge professionalism of its later execution tapes nor the haunting "nasheed" music that accompanies most of its propaganda. Instead, a hand-held camera showed a bulldozer pushing down a rampart of sand that had marked the border between Iraq and Syria. As the machine destroyed the dirt revetment, the camera panned down to a handwritten poster lying in the sand. "End of Sykes-Picot", it said.
Robert Fisk: We still haven’t grasped that this is war without frontiers - Independent.ie