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Who's running ISIS?

The mysterious leader of ISIS is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who commands several thousand men in Syria and Iraq, where he's trying to establish a state based on Islamic law. CBS News' Holly Williams explains who the insurgents' leader is and how his group became such a force.
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