It is close to ten years since the world’s renown terrorist, Osama bin Laden was killed by the US bringing to an end to the leader of the Al qaeda lord, but the terrorist groomed his son to take over from him as the revelations show.
The United States is hunting for the son of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and is willing to pay up to $1 million for information on his whereabouts. Hamza bin Laden, whose father was killed by US Navy Seals in Pakistan in 2011, is emerging as a leader in the al Qaeda terror network, according to the US State Department.
The State Department released a statement asking for information on the whereabouts of Hamza bin Laden.
“He has released audio and video messages on the Internet, calling on his followers to launch attacks against the United States and its Western allies, and he has threatened attacks against the United States in revenge for the May 2011 killing of his father by US military forces,” it said in a statement.
The State Department said when his father was killed, items seized from his hiding place in Pakistan indicated he was grooming Hamza bin Laden to replace him as the leader of the terror group.
The younger bin Laden is married to the daughter of the lead hijacker in the September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, the State Department said.
As American officials hunt him down, United Nations member states are required to freeze Hamza bin Laden’s assets, and comply with a travel ban and arms embargo, according to the State Department bureau of counter terrorism.US officials estimate Hamza bin Laden’s age to be between 30 and 33.