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Re: WANTED Hamza Bin Laden
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2019, 07:39:45 AM »
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« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2019, 07:42:16 AM »
He’s Osama bin Laden’s son, the husband of 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta’s daughter — and now Public Enemy No. 1 to the State Department, which just put a $1 million bounty on him.

Hamza bin Laden is emerging as a powerful key leader of al Qaeda, bringing his father’s cutthroat cachet and a youthful energy to the terror network his dad once led — and prompting US authorities to try to cut him off at the pass.

The State Department this week announced the reward for help in hunting Hamza down, calling him “a specially designated global terrorist” and dangling the cash under its Rewards for Justice program.

Experts say the 30-something militant, once dubbed the “Crown Prince of Terror,” has been groomed for the deadly role his whole life.

“He’s basically born right after al Qaeda is founded, so his life is totally consumed in the establishment, the formation of al Qaeda and the launching of its war against the West and America,” Thomas Joscelyn, of the Washington, DC-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told The Associated Press.

Hamza, one of his father’s estimated 26 children, sought Dad’s approval from a young age and wanted bin Laden to make him the network’s heir apparent.

Described as bin Laden’s favorite son, Hamza grew up in the family’s strict religious compound in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, which was home to more than 60 people, including the relatives of other terrorists who worked with bin Laden.

Speaking exclusively to The Post in 2017, Hamza’s childhood friend, Abdurahman Khadr, said the children were forced to memorize the Koran at the compound’s mosque while their fathers planned terrorist strikes, presumably including those of Sept. 11, 2001.

Hamza was a bit of a rebel, his old pal said.

He loved drinking Coke and spicing up his food with Tabasco sauce — two forbidden Western items.

Hamza was “always trying to sneak stuff in that we weren’t allowed to have,” Khadr said.

Hamza would have been around 12 years old at the time of the 9/11 attacks.


But two months later, Al Jazeera obtained footage of Hamza, wearing a turban and traditional Afghan dress, and three of his brothers handling weapons and picking through the debris of a downed US helicopter — all part of an al Qaeda media campaign.

The footage showed Hamza proudly reciting a poem in Arabic, praising then-Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.

Still, the elder bin Laden reportedly feared for his son’s safety and wanted to send him away to study after the attacks.

But Hamza begged his dad to let him join the fight and eventually went to Pakistan for terrorist training.

Hamza ended up being reunited with his father in Pakistan after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, sparked by 9/11.

In 2008, an extremist Islamic website published a poem said to be written by the son.

“Accelerate the destruction of America, Britain, France and Denmark,” it read, earning him the “Crown Prince of Terror” moniker.

The son is believed to have been living with his father and mother, Khairiah Saber, one of bin Laden’s several wives, at a secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011, when Navy SEALs carried out the nighttime raid that killed the terror chief.

Also killed in the raid was Osama’s eldest son, Khaled.

Saber, a Saudi-born child psychologist who was reportedly bin Laden’s favorite wife, survived.

Hamza was never found.

According to the State Department, letters seized in the raid indicated the terrorist mastermind was grooming his son to replace him as the leader of the extremist group.

In his first audio message released on the al Qaeda website in 2015, Hamza called for the network’s followers to wage “holy war” on Washington, London, Paris and Tel Aviv.

“If you think that your sinful crime that you committed in Abbottabad has passed without punishment, then you thought wrong,” he said.

In a propaganda video released May 2017, he called for “lone-wolf” attacks, echoing methods used by ISIS.

At one point, he declared, “We are all Osama.’’

Hamza has vowed to avenge his father’s death, and authorities are particularly concerned that, at a time when al Qaeda’s influence might seem to be waning, he could provide it with a younger convincing voice.


The terrorist organization’s aging leaders — including its current chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri, 67 — have struggled to inspire militants around the world, but Hamza has his father’s legacy behind him, analysts note.

Now that ISIS is withering in Syria, US authorities believe this could be the perfect time for an al Qaeda resurgence.

And Hamza is likely the next person at the helm, experts say.

A UN Security Council committee called him “the most probable successor” to the network.

But the question remains: Where is Hamza?

Saudi Arabia announced on Friday that it had revoked his citizenship in November. His father was born in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

Osama bin Laden’s wives and surviving children still live there, where they have been granted refuge.

But the whereabouts of Hamza, his wife and their three children remain unclear. He was reportedly married in 2009 in Iran to Atta’s daughter.

Some reports suggest they still live in Iran, guarded by Iranian intelligence and military officials, while some officials think he may be heading to south central Asia.

Either way, it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.

“He could be anywhere,’’ a State Department official acknowledged.

US officials had spent a decade hunting his father after 9/11.

Last year, family members urged Hamza not to follow in his father’s footsteps.

In an interview with The Guardian in August, Osama bin Laden’s mother, Alia Ghanem, said, “I don’t want to go through this again.

“When we thought everyone was over this, next thing I knew was Hamza saying, ‘I am going to avenge my father.’

“If Hamza was in front of me now, I would tell him, ‘God guide you. Think twice about what you are doing. Don’t retake the steps of your father. You are entering really negative and horrible parts of your soul.’ ”



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Re: WANTED Hamza Bin Laden
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2019, 07:43:11 AM »

Osama Bin Laden (left) with his son Hamza bin Laden

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Re: WANTED Hamza Bin Laden
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2019, 07:44:57 AM »
Hamza bin Laden, the son of and possible successor to terror kingpin Osama bin Laden, is dead, a new report said Wednesday.

The US has gathered intelligence that the al Qaeda leader’s son had died, NBC News reported, citing a trio of US officials.

The sources would not discuss details of where or when the younger bin Laden died or whether the US played a role in his demise, and President Trump declined comment at the White House.

“I don’t want to comment on it. I don’t want to comment on that,” he said.

Hamza bin Laden’s last known public statement, released by al Qaeda in 2018, included threats against Saudi Arabia and called on the people of the Arabian peninsula to revolt against their rulers.

Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in 2011 during a raid on his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Hamza was not found at the compound, but letters seized from the compound suggested the top 9/11 plotter wanted his son to join him in Abbottabad so he could groom him as a leader.

“Hamza is being prepared for a leadership role in the organization his father founded” and was “likely to be perceived favorably by the jihadi rank-and-file. With the Islamic State’s ‘caliphate’ apparently on the verge of collapse, Hamza is now the figure best placed to reunify the global jihadi movement,” counterterror expert and former FBI agent Ali Soufan said in 2017, according to the network.

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