US places $1m bounty on Bin Laden's son

As Saudi Arabia strips same of citizenship
US State Department says he's assuming leadership role of al Qaeda

A photograph circulated by the US State Department's Twitter account to announce a $1 million USD reward for Al-Qaeda key leader Hamza bin Laden, son of Osama bin Laden, is seen March 1, 2019. (State Department/Reuters)

 

The United State on Thursday through the State Department expressed its willingness to pay up to $1 million for information on the whereabouts of Hamza Bin Laden, one of the sons of  the deceased former Al Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden.

 Intelligence available to the United States increasingly points to Hamza as heir to the throne of global terrorism.

In its statement, the state department says the junior Bin Laden ". is emerging as a leader" in the al Qaeda franchise. 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."

Hamzat, who the US believed to be in his early thirties is married to the daughter of Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker in the September 2001 attacks that killed some 3000 people in the World Trade Center on US soil.

Meanwhile as United States intensifies the hunt for 'the Crown Prince of Jihad', one of its allies Saudi Arabia has revoked the citizenship of Hamza'  as reported in Umm Al-Qura.

Hamza Bin Laden had earlier in 2016 released messages urging the overthrow of the leadership of his native Saudi.

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