Posted on 07/31/2019 12:24:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The U.S. has received intelligence that suggests Osama bin Laden’s son and potential successor, Hamza, is dead, NBC News reported Wednesday.
The three U.S. intelligence officials who spoke with NBC declined to share when, where, or how the younger bin Laden died, and would not say whether the U.S. was at all involved.
The news, if confirmed, would dispel fears widely-held in the intelligence community that Hamza bin Laden was poised to succeed his father as the spiritual and tactical leader of al-Qaeda’s global jihadist movement.
Born around 1989, Hamza bin Laden traveled with his father to Afghanistan in 1996 and appeared regularly in al-Qaeda propaganda videos. Hamza was not present when Navy Seals raided Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound in 2011 and killed Osama following a global manhunt that began after the al-Qaeda-orchestrated 9/11 attacks. But documents found on at the compound indicated that Osama bin Laden was grooming his son for a leadership role in the terror group.
In his last public statement, issued by al-Qaeda’s propaganda outlet in 2018, Hamza threatened Saudi Arabia and called on his followers to revolt against the regime over its ongoing cooperation with the U.S.
Citing Hamza’s status as a “an emerging al Qaeda leader” who “has threatened attacks against the United States and allies,” the State Department announced in February a $1 million reward for any information on his whereabouts.
“He fell.”
How many times?
Was it down a staircase?
Out of a plane?
Down an elevator shaft?
Into a trash compactor?
Inquiring minds want to know!
And there was just a report the other day that he was taking over the father’s business...
And there was just a report the other day that he was taking over the father’s business...
Hamsa bin Laden dirt nap bump for later.....
Domesticated & feral animals and small boys everywhere are breathing sighs of relief.
Hamza is not the guy to worry about. Al Zwahiri is the real deep state linked operator.
Al Zwahiri, the number “2”, has always run the show. Bin Laden could not stop him dividing muslims by making them kill each other... because Al Zwahiri works for Russia...
Al Zawahiri, the Egyptian doctor, was Osama Bin Ladin’s number 2. He took over the Al Qaeda leadership after Bin Ladin’s death. He has been at large since 2001 and has not been heard from recently.
Great news. Thanks for posting.
Nope - you got it right...being dead means you cannot be the successor...but your vote on the board is good for another 25 years....
there was a million for information first of year. this is how you fight terrorist Thank YOU Mr President.
Hamza was married to one of the daughters of a senior al-Qaida leader, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah. A video of Hamza’s wedding was found in the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed. His family also reported in an exclusive interview with the Guardian in 2018, that Hamza had married the daughter of Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker in the 9/11 terror attacks.
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