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Bin Laden’s son steps into father’s shoes as al-Qaeda attempts a comeback
washingtonpost.com ^ | 5/27/2017 | Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet

Posted on 05/28/2017 8:55:37 AM PDT by rktman

The voice is that of a soft-spoken 28-year-old, but the message is vintage Osama bin Laden, giving orders to kill. When the audio recording began turning up on jihadist websites two weeks ago, it was as if the dead terrorist was channeling himself through his favorite son.

“Prepare diligently to inflict crippling losses on those who have disbelieved,” Hamza bin Laden, scion of the Sept. 11, 2001, mastermind, says in a thin baritone that eerily echoes his father. “Follow in the footsteps of martyrdom-seekers before you.”

The recording, first aired May 13, is one in a string of recent pronouncements by the man who many terrorism experts regard as the crown prince of al-Qaeda’s global network. Posted just two weeks before Monday’s suicide bombing in Manchester, England, the message includes a specific call for attacks on European and North American cities to avenge the deaths of Syrian children killed in airstrikes.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; binladenfamily; globaljihad; obl; target
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Hmmm. Guess he feels safe now the lyin' king, who reportedly actually shot binladen with a borrowed pistol, is no longer in office. Hopefully someone will blow him out of his sandals before he causes much damage.
1 posted on 05/28/2017 8:55:37 AM PDT by rktman
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So they are no longer hiding behind ‘ISIS”?


2 posted on 05/28/2017 8:56:57 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap")
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To: rktman

How did he find Bin Laden’s shoes at the bottom of the Indian Ocean?


3 posted on 05/28/2017 8:59:23 AM PDT by PGR88
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So what is Son of Bin Ladin’s stance on ISIS? Will he work with them or start a war with them?


4 posted on 05/28/2017 9:02:44 AM PDT by Blue Highway (Q)
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To: rktman

If he could survive the Boston Marathon bombing, he can survive almost anything ...


5 posted on 05/28/2017 9:02:54 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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I thought he was killed in the Zero Dark Thirty operation.


6 posted on 05/28/2017 9:05:20 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216

Bin Laden made tons of babies with tons of women, couldn’t fit all of them in the same house.


7 posted on 05/28/2017 9:06:57 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: rktman

Scott bin Laden.


8 posted on 05/28/2017 9:08:38 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Blue Highway

ISIS is re- purposed al Qaeda
ISIS was formed from Al Qaeda leaders Hillary Clinton and Baraq Obama released from Iraqi prisons
It’s like war between the familes over who gets to be top dog of IS, Inc
Al Baghdadi about served his useful purpose
The battle of Raqqa is underway and theres going to be a vacuum after it falls


9 posted on 05/28/2017 9:08:42 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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He should probably lube up now for the Hellfire missile that is destined for his azz.


10 posted on 05/28/2017 9:09:33 AM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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By all means, #1. Son, step up to the front, so that everyone can see you. Don’t be shy. Let the world know of all your fury!! And of your present location too.


11 posted on 05/28/2017 9:13:09 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Morpheus2009

Well alrighty then.


12 posted on 05/28/2017 9:13:39 AM PDT by Jim W N
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Someone off this moron while he is stiĺl in his cocoon. Don't need him as a butterfly for the insane inbreds...
13 posted on 05/28/2017 9:14:00 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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14 posted on 05/28/2017 9:14:32 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Blue Highway

I had an Afghani uber driver last year who told me that Al Qaeda thinks very little of ISIS. They think that ISIS is just a bloodthirsty violent gang. They do not think they are pious or good Muslims. Al Qaeda thinks they themselves are good Muslims doing Allah’s work.


15 posted on 05/28/2017 9:18:06 AM PDT by Yaelle (#IstandwithHannity)
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He’s just pizzed because the SEALS walked away with his daddy’s porn stash. Islam sucks.


16 posted on 05/28/2017 9:19:00 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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Typical Saudis they are
Too pious to do the dirty work
Willing to use their piety to recruit and their money to hire violent mentally disturbed youth to do the martyr bit


17 posted on 05/28/2017 9:26:57 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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Barack Obama wanted the braggin’ rights about “getting Bin Laden” (for campaigning in 2012) but he didn’t really have it in for Bin Laden, a fellow muslim.

Barack said that there would be no spiking the football, no photos of bin laden’s dead body, and he saw to it that Mr. Osama Bin Laden got a respectful Islamic funeral at taxpayer expense.


18 posted on 05/28/2017 9:28:00 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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Trump would be smart to tell the CIA that they can redeem themselves from their recent misbehavior by focusing on getting al Zawahri and bin Laden’s son.


19 posted on 05/28/2017 9:29:19 AM PDT by Brilliant
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That’s why I asked. Will there be a war for top dog terrorist organization? I though ISIS and al Qaida were differs t factions like one is Sunni and one Shiite? Who wins ISIS or al Qaida?


20 posted on 05/28/2017 9:30:09 AM PDT by Blue Highway (Q)
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