Osama Bin Laden’s Son Confirmed Dead

In August 2015, Hamza bin Laden released an audio message which saw him call on followers to wage jihad (holy war) on Washington, Paris, London and Tel Aviv.

The terrorist son of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden has died aged 30, according to US intelligence officials.

They leaked news of the death of Hamza bin Laden, who had been groomed by his dad to become his successor, on Wednesday afternoon. Three officials confirmed the intelligence, but refused to offer further information on when or how Saudi Arabian-born Hamza died, and if the US played a role in his death, NBC News reported.

The US State Department offered a $1million reward for information leading to his capture in February this year. President Trump said ‘I do not want to comment on that,’ when asked about the claim Hamza had been killed. Hamza’s last known public statement was released by Al Qaeda’s public relations department in 2018.

That saw him issue a threat against Saudi Arabia and called on the people of the Arabian peninsula to revolt. Hamza was born to Khairiah Sabar, one of Osama bin Laden’s three wives.

The terror heir married a daughter of high-ranking Al Qaeda operative Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah when he was 17. He was dubbed the ‘Crown Prince of Terror’ in 2008 after a poem said to have been written by him was unearthed. It said: ‘Accelerate the destruction of America, Britain, France and Denmark.’

In 2019, his brother Omar bin Laden denied a report in The Guardian that Hamza had married a daughter of 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta. Hamza moved with his late father to Afghanistan in 1996, and appeared in propaganda videos after bin Laden Sr declared war on the United States.

The infamous terror mastermind became the world’s most wanted man after plotting the September 11 2001 attacks on New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania. A total of 19 Al Qaeda terrorists killed 2,977 people after flying airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington DC and crashing a third jet into a field in Somerset County Pennsylvania.

United Airlines’ flight 93 is believed to have been intended to strike the White House or US Capitol in Washington DC, but was flown into the ground after passengers fought back against the hijackers. That saw then-President George W Bush declare a ‘war on terror,’ and subsequently invade Afghanistan and Iraq.