Who was Hamza bin Laden, the brainchild of the 9/11 attacks

Hamza bin Laden, The son of Osama, the last leader of al-Qaeda, He was killed during a US military operation in an area between Afghanistan and Pakistan..

The news was known by a statement signed by Donald Trump in which not too much detail is given about how and when he was killed who had become one of the most prominent figures of the network.

The three-paragraph statement states that bin Laden's death "does not only deprive Al Qaeda his important leadership qualities and his symbolic bond with his father, but also jeopardizes the group's important operational activities. "

The statement adds that Osama's son "was responsible for the planning and treatment of several terrorist groups".

Several US officials cited by the information network CNN They suspected Hamza's death, based on intelligence reports that there were none.

Hamza, who He was perceived as the heir to al-Qaida leaders. He was congratulated in 2015 by the leader of the group, Ayman al-Zawahri, in a video broadcast on jihadist networks: "He is the lion of the den of al-Qaeda."

In February of this year, the State Department offered a $ 1,000,000 reward for the capture of this 30-year-old man who In January 2017, he was named "Specially Designated World Terrorist".

Hamza has published audio and video messages in which he has called for attacks against the United States. and to commemorate a September 11 birthdayAl-Qaeda used a photo of him as a child superimposed on a photo of the twin towers.

In February of this year, the State Department offered a $ 1,000,000 reward for the capture of the 30-year-old man who, in January 2017, had been named "Specially Designated World Terrorist". .

A video published in 2017 by the CIA, which was seized during the raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed, shows Hamza at his wedding, the first images of the adult heir.

It is thought that he was born in 1989, the year of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, where his father became popular among the mujahideen fighters.

Osama Bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia but fled to Sudan after criticizing the kingdom for allowing US troop deployment during the Gulf War.

Last march the Saudi government announced that it had revoked Hamza's citizenship – something that he had already done with Osama in 1994- although it is not clear where the young man was when they performed this action.

Hamza began appearing in videos and messages as a spokesman for al Qaeda from 2015. He was 12 when he saw his father for the last time, since the former al Qaeda leader escaped Pakistan after the September 11 attacks, when the United States invaded Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban, network allies extremist.

"It was as if we had taken out our livers and left them there," he wrote about the separation and revealed that his father had left him a tasbih, the necklace of Muslim pearls.

Hamza and his mother followed other members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan, then in Iran, where other members of the group have hidden them, as shown by the badysis of documents seized by the US intelligence services.

Then, al Qaeda members were arrested by Iran and during this period, Hamza was married.

In March 2010, they left the Iranian guard and went to the Pakistani province of Waziristan. 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 May 2, 2011, an elite group of the US military raided the place and killed the leader of al-Qaeda and his son Khalid, among others.

His mother and other wives who were in the house were imprisoned, while Hamza disappeared again.

In August 2015, he reappeared as spokesman for the group, giving speeches and commenting on Trump's visits to Saudi Arabia or the war in Syria.