United States offer a reward of one million dollars to find the son of bin Laden – 28/02/2019

United States offered this Thursday a $ 1 million reward for the information of a son of the late leader of al Qaeda Osama bin Laden, cataloging it as the "key leader" of the extremist group.

Hamza bin Laden has been a place of speculation for years. Information was received from him in Pakistan, Afghanistan or under house arrest in Iran.

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According to the US State Department, which promises money in exchange for information "to identify or locate it in any country", is an "emergent leader" of al Qaeda.

"Since at least August 2015, he has been posting audio and video messages on the Internet calling for attacks against the United States and its Western allies, and has threatened to launch attacks on the United States in retaliation for his father's death. , killed in May 2011 by US soldiers, "US diplomacy writes in a statement.

According to the specialists of Islamist groups, the young man, now in his thirties, It is led by the group Ansar al-Fourqan, who has been recruiting for some months in Syria the most indoctrinated fighters of al-Qaeda or the jihadist Islamic State.

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Hamza bin Laden is often considered the "crown prince of jihad": there are documents, including the letters revealed by AFP in May 2015, showing that Osama bin Laden intended him at the top of the anti-Jihad jihad. Western.

Among the files of the jihadist leader seized during the 2011 US raid, during which he was killed in Pakistan and unveiled at the end of 2017 by the CIA, is also a video of the marriage of his son Hamza, apparently in Iran.

It is unknown whether he is still in Iran, Syria or Afghanistan.

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Source: AFP