Trump announced the death of bin Laden's son | The …

The president of the United States, Donald Trumpannounced that Osama Bin Laden's son had been killed during a military operation in an area between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Hamza bin Laden. Trump reported by a statement without specifying how and when he was killed who was considered one of the main leaders of al-Qaeda network. Last February, the State Department offered a million dollars at its head.

In the statement, which has only three paragraphs, it was reported that the death of bin Laden's son "deprives Al Qaeda not only of his important leadership skills and his symbolic link with his father", but also undermines Important operational activities of the group. The text describes Hamza Bin Laden as "Responsible for the planning and treatment of various terrorist groups" within the network structure founded by his father.

Several US officials quoted by CNN television have suspected Hamza's death, according to security services reports that there is no news.

In 2015, Ayman al-Zawahri, the leader of al-Qaeda, had praised Hamza through a video broadcast on jihadist networks. "He is the lion of al-Qaeda's lair"he had said then. Hamza I was 30 years old and at the beginning of the Trump administration, he was on the list of "specially designated global terrorists".

The death of Hamza is confirmed a few days after the 18th anniversary of the attacks of 11 September 2001, which claimed three thousand lives in New York and Washington, and perpetrated the organization of bin Laden. His son had published audio and video messages calling for attacks against the United States. To commemorate an anniversary of September 11, al-Qaeda used a photo of him as a child superimposed on an image of the twin towers destroyed by the bombings.

The mysterious life of Hamza

It is believed that Hamza was born in 1989, year of withdrawal of Soviet troops, at a time when his father became popular among mujahideen fighters. His first pictures in adulthood date from 2017, when a video seized by the CIA was published during the May 2, 2011 raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, when Osama bin Laden was killed. The images are from the heir at their wedding.

In March, the Saudi government announced that it was revoking Hamza's citizenship, which he had already done with his father in 1994. Osama had returned to Saudi Arabia after crossing Afaganistan, but had become critical. with regard to the Saudi government for its support of the United States during the Gulf War in 1991, they settled in Sudan, then returned to Afghanistan, then to Pakistan after 9/11. Subsequently, and for about ten years, as a result of the American attack that killed him, bin Laden did not see his son again.

"It was like we took out our livers and left them there," Hamza wrote about the separation. and revealed that his father had left him a tasbih, the necklace of Muslim pearls. It was already 2015 and appeared as a spokesman for al Qaeda.

According to US intelligence, Hamza and his mother followed other members of al-Qaeda in Pakistan, and then to Iran, where other members of the group hid them. Later, al-Qaeda members were arrested by Iran and during this period, Hamza was married.

In March 2010, they left Iranian places of detention and went to the Pakistani province of Waziristan. There, Hamza asked for weapons training, according to a letter from his father. His mother went to Abbottabad, where he met Osama in his hiding place until the military operation that attacked him arrived and killed the police officer. Al Qaeda and his son Khalid, among others.

Hamza was not placed in this raid and reappeared in August 2015 as a spokesman for al-Qaeda delivering speeches and commenting on Trump's visits to Saudi Arabia or the war in Syria.