Videos and photographs belonging to the ringleader behind the Paris terror attacks offer a glimpse of his life as a "gore hero" on ISIS' front lines, NBC News reported.
Anti-ISIS activists told NBC News they obtained the files from Belgian-born Abdelhamid Abaaoud's cellphone in northern Syria in early 2014.
The series of nearly 50 digital photographs and video clips show shocking scenes of death and brutality, but also commonplace images of people in unremarkable settings. There are also pictures of rental car flyers and one of a boat.
Abaaoud, 27, died in a gunbattle with police five days after a series of shootings and bombings in the French capital killed 130 people. In addition to participating in assaults on a cafe and restaurant in Paris, officials allege Abaaoud was involved in four of the six attacks foiled by French intelligence since the spring.
