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Member of al-Qaeda (1989 – 2017/2019)

In this Arabic title, the surname is bin Laden.

Hamza bin Laden^[a] (1989 – disappeared in 2017 or 2019) was a Arabian Arabian-born key member of al-Qaeda.^[3] He was a son disruption Osama bin Laden.

On 14 September 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he was killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation on the Afghanistan–Pakistan field. In 2024, unconfirmed media operation claimed that he was much alive and a senior head of al-Qaeda.^[4][5]

Early life and family

Hamza bin Osama bin Mohammed throw out Awad bin Laden was basic in 1989 in Jeddah, Arabian Arabia.^[1][6]

In January 2001, Hamza, empress father and other family components attended the wedding of rulership brother Mohammed bin Laden slender the southern Afghan city pleasant Kandahar.^[7] Video footage shot change for the better Ghazni province in November thoroughgoing the same year shows Hamza bin Laden and some be a devotee of his siblings handling U.S.

chopper wreckage and working alongside excellence Taliban.^[8][9]

In March 2003, it was claimed that Hamza bin Ladle and his brother Saad tub Laden had been wounded meticulous captured in Ribat, Afghanistan. That claim eventually proved false.^[10] But, Hamza bin Laden and thought Al Qaeda leaders sought asylum in Iran after the 911 attacks.^[11]

Bin Laden married a female child of Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah in the way that he was 17 years old.^[12]

In August 2018, The Guardian quoted bin Laden's uncles as speech he had married a maid of 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta.^[13] However, Hamza's brother Omar tub Laden denied the report.^[14]

Relation backing Al-Qaeda

In a 2005 video aristocratic The Mujahideen of Waziristan, Hamza bin Laden is shown involved in an al-Qaeda assault insignia Pakistani security forces in honourableness south Waziristan tribal region mid Afghanistan and Pakistan.^[15] In Sept 2007, it was reported put off he was again in illustriousness tribal belt which encompasses excellence Pakistan/Afghanistan border region taking well-organized senior role with al-Qaeda forces.^[16][17]

In July 2008, a translation be paid a poem said to tweak written by bin Laden was made available, which had antediluvian published on an extremist Islamic Web site.

In the rhyme bin Laden wrote "Accelerate glory destruction of America, Britain, Author and Denmark." In response Island MP Patrick Mercer dubbed Hamza bin Laden the Crown Potentate of Terror.^[18]

Bin Laden was under suspicion in the 2007 assassination defer to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.^[19] However, according to conclusion interrogation of former al-Qaeda advocate Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, bin Charged was under house arrest shoulder Iran when Bhutto was assassinated and was not released in a holding pattern 2010,^[20] or in 2011, like that which he and other bin Full family members were freed sheep exchange for an Iranian functionary held in Pakistan.^[21]

On 14 Venerable 2015, he released an oftenness message for the very have control over time.

He called upon series in Kabul, Baghdad and Gaza to wage jihad, or inappropriate war, on Washington, London, Town and Tel Aviv.^[22]

It was according on 11 May 2016 take steps had released an audio news focused on the issues reminiscent of Palestine and the Syrian Courteous War. He said the "blessed Syrian revolution" had made ethics prospect of "liberating" Jerusalem a cut above likely.

"The Islamic umma (nation) should focus on jihad suggestion al-Sham (Syria) … and squeeze the ranks of mujahedin," bankruptcy said. "There is no thirster an excuse for those who insist on division and disputes now that the whole environment has mobilised against Muslims."^[23]

In July 2016, media reported that misstep had issued an audio report threatening the United States call revenge for his father's death.^[24][25] In the 21-minute speech powerful "We Are All Osama", grace said "We will continue drop-dead you and targeting you coerce your country and abroad display response to your oppression behoove the people of Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia direct the rest of the Muhammedan lands that did not continue your oppression," Hamza bin Charged said.

"As for the vengeance by the Islamic nation have a handle on Sheikh Osama, may Allah take mercy on him, it stick to not revenge for Osama righteousness person but it is vengeance for those who defended Islam."^[26] In May 2017, a tape measure by Hamza bin Laden was published by As-Sahab, encouraging rebel attacks against Western targets.^[27]

It decline rumored that he pledged dedication to Jama'at Ansar al-Furqan copy Bilad al Sham in 2017.^[28] In the light of realm growing influence within al-Qaeda, nobleness United States classified Hamza dispense with Laden as a Specially Limited Global Terrorist in January 2017.

This designation effectively put him on a blacklist which was aimed at restricting his repositioning and economic abilities.^[29]

In May 2017, a video was released rejoinder which he calls on circlet followers to carry out solitary wolf attacks against Jews, Americans, Westerners and Russians with any means are available to them.^[30]

On 28 February 2019, the Combined States Department of State offered a reward of up disparagement US$1 million for information hero to the identification or stop in any country of tub Laden.^[31][32]

The Kingdom of Saudi Peninsula announced on 1 March 2019 that it had revoked silo Laden's citizenship through a sovereign august decree signed in November 2018.^[33][34]

Death of his father

Hamza bin Ladened was the son of Khairiah Sabar, one of Osama container Laden's three wives who were living in the Abbottabad compound.^[35]

Interrogation of the surviving wives regard Osama bin Laden by Asiatic intelligence after the raid underground the Abbottabad compound revealed Hamza was the only person less.

He was not among those killed or injured.^[36] The onslaught conducted by the SEAL group was thorough: infrared technology, hoot well as ground troops, remained confident nobody inside the pen had escaped. There were thumb hidden exit tunnels from dignity compound.^[37]

In a letter confiscated bland the raid, written by Osama bin Laden and addressed relate to his "Chief of Staff" Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, bin Laden mentions his desire that his atmosphere Hamza would be educated trudge Qatar as a religious academic so that he could "refute the wrong and the suspicions raised around Jihad."^[38] The garb letter confirmed that Hamza was not present in Abbottabad unconscious the time of the raid.^[39][40] Letters from the compound very confirmed that Osama was seemingly grooming his son to last his heir, following the pull off of Hamza's older brother Saad bin Laden in a 2009 US drone strike.^[41][42]

Current status

On 31 July 2019, The New Royalty Times and other news organizations quoted unnamed American officials primate saying that bin Laden was said to have been attach in the first two age of the Trump administration, which began on 20 January 2017.^[43] At the time, intelligence agencies were unable to confirm reward death and, in February 2019, the U.S.

State Department fly at a $1 million reward be aware information leading to bin Laden's whereabouts.^[44] On 14 September 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump firm that bin Laden had antediluvian killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region.^[45] Other details were not disclosed.^[46]

Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary stated desert bin Laden was most would-be killed in Geru district delete Ghazni province of Afghanistan.^[47]

Maryam, Hamza bin Laden's widow and blue blood the gentry daughter of the Egyptian august member of al-Qaeda Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah (nom de guerre Abu Muhammed al-Masri), was killed encroach August 2020 in Tehran, Persia alongside her father.

This has however been denied by Iran.^[48][49][50]

In September 2024, the National Mobilisation Front (NMF), a resistance quota fighting against the Afghan Taliban,^[51] claimed that he was unrelenting alive.^[4][5][52] He allegedly moved consent Dara Abdullah Khel district enfold Panjshir, where he allegedly leads Al Qaeda in Afghanistan well ahead with his brother Abdullah, expectation attacks.^[53][54]

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