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July 15, 2015

Meet France’s First Family of Terror

Their last name will be familiar.

Sabri Essid, a French national, recently appeared in an Islamic State (IS) video alongside his own stepson, who is shown murdering an alleged Palestinian Mossad agent. Essid’s stepbrother, Mohammed Merah, killed three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012. And last year, Merah’s sister Souad left France along with her four children to join jihadists—including her husband—in Syria. John Rosenthal reports:

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