Osama bin Laden's son Hamza, chosen heir to the leadership of Al Qaeda, has been killed - US media reports citing American officials
Osama bin Laden's son Hamza, chosen heir to the leadership of Al Qaeda, has been killed, US media reported Wednesday citing American officials.
Questioned by reporters in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump did not confirm or deny the NBC report.Both reports suggested that bin Laden may have been killed well before the US State Department announced a $1 million bounty on his head in February 2019. Documents seized in the raid on his father's house in Abbottabad suggested Hamza was being groomed as heir to the Al Qaeda leadership.
But the proliferation of branches and associated jihadist groups in Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and elsewhere have underscored its continuing potency.Hamza bin Laden was not targeted just because he was bin Laden's son, said Rita Katz, executive director of the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks extremists.
At his father's side in Afghanistan before the 9/11 attacks, Hamza learnt how to handle weapons and ranted in his thin voice against Americans, Jews and "Crusaders" in videos uploaded online.
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