him. he joins me now live from inside of syria. nick, i ve been watching your reporting all day. i want you to talk to me about what you know about his past and specifically the fact that apparently he was able to move back and forth between syria and france undetected. has to be concerning for western intel. reporter: certainly. we should point out we don t precisely know his whereabouts and know 100% if he got successfully to europe ahead of this raid. back in october there was suggestions that perhaps an air strike in raqqah may have killed him. in fact, he sort of went radio silent for a bit leading to speculation he may have died. that may well not be the case according to all the information coming out of paris right now. but his history with the islamic state began most reports seem in early 2014, pretty near the beginning of it as an organization, in fact. it was getting under way. he was said in fact to have been able to persuade his 13-year-old brother unis to join him in