Bin Laden son 'makes al-Qaeda call'. Image source, CIA. Hamza Bin Laden was widely seen as a potential successor to his father. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video footage shows Hamza Bin Laden at his wedding.
Al-Qaeda: The basics. Image source, Getty Images. In that message, he threatened Saudi Arabia and called on the people of the Arabian peninsula to revolt. Hamza bin Laden is believed to have been born around His father moved to Afghanistan in and declared war against the U. Hamza went with him and appeared in al Qaeda propaganda videos. As leader of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden oversaw operations against Western targets that culminated in the Sept.
Hamza was not found at the compound. Letters seized from the compound suggested the elder bin Laden wanted his son to join him in Abbottabad and was grooming him as a leader. But the proliferation of branches and associated jihadist groups in Afghanistan, Yemen , Syria and elsewhere have underscored its continuing potency.
Documents seized in the raid on his father's house in Abbottabad, Pakistan suggested Hamza was being groomed as heir to the Al-Qaeda leadership. US forces also found a video of Hamza's wedding to the daughter of another senior Al-Qaeda official that is believed to have taken place in Iran.
In , Hamza was placed on the US terror blacklist, seen as a potent future figurehead for the group then led by Ayman al-Zawahiri. Daily newsletter Receive essential international news every morning.
Take international news everywhere with you!
0コメント