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(en) « Everything We Knew About This ISIS Mastermind Was Wrong », The Daily Beast, (consulté le ) : « al-Qaduli handled the intelligence services, or amniyat, in the country, and then in both Syria and Iraq after the killing of Abu Muhannad al-Souweïdawi, a former Saddamist »