The United States is offering a million dollar award to find Osama Bin Laden's son

The United States Government announced this Thursday a reward of one million dollars which provides information permitting the detention of Hamza bin Laden, son of the former terrorist leader of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.

"Today, we announce that a reward of one million dollars will be offered to anyone who will give information leading to the arrest of the current leader of al – Qaeda, Hamza bin. Laden, "said the Deputy Secretary for Diplomatic Security of the United States. Michael Evanoff

In the beginning, it was Saad bin Laden who had been called to raise his father to head the terrorist organization, but his death in Pakistan during a drone attack forced the jihadist network appoint Hamza as his new heirten years younger than the firstborn son of the Saudi terrorist killed in 2009. Another brother, Khalid, died with his father in the same American operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Nowadays, he is one of the top commanders of al Qaeda, only overtaken by the current terrorist leader Ayman al Zawahiri.

The location of Hamza, sometimes called "crown prince of jihad", has been the subject of speculation for years, during which reports were received from him. in Pakistan, Afghanistan or under house arrest in Iran.

Last August, the British newspaper The Guardian reported that the 29-year-old boy was married to a daughter of Mohammed Atta, one of the kidnappers who participated in the attack on the Twin Towers in New York in 2001.

Atta, of Egyptian nationality, participated in the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11 and piloted the Boeing 767 until it crashed against the North Tower of the World Trade Center at New York.

In recent years, particularly booming Islamic State and terrorist attacks in Europe, Hamza vowed to avenge his father's death, and called on al-Qaeda supporters to try to fight against the West.