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Birth
Dayib was born in in Lebanon to a Syrian father and an Argentinean mother -
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Syrian Air Force
He served in the Syrian Air Force as a truck
driver and received light weapons training -
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Saudi Arabia
During this period he lived in Saudi Arabia and worked as a door-to-door salesman. -
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Return to Syria
He returned to Syria where he worked as a truck driver until 2000. -
Radicalization
In May 2000, Diyab met Abu Jafar al-Iraqi who
advised him to move to Pakistan and helped smuggle him there via Iran.