I Will Avenge My Father – Osama Bin Laden’s Son

 Hamza, the son of the late Al-Qaeda leader’s son Osama Bin Laden’s brother has been advised by the deceased’s brother not to follow in his infamous father’s footsteps. 29-year old Hamza is regarded as the possible successor to Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian ideologue who took over Al-Qaeda after US special forces killed Osama Bin Laden in a 2011 raid in Pakistan. Hamza, who has vowed to avenge his father said he has  organised a highly trained group of the terrorist organisation’s fighters in Afghanistan. This was made known by Western officials to The Telegraph. In a letter to his mother leaked in the media, Hamza said his 12-year-old son died a “martyr,” suggesting he was killed in an airstrike or in fighting. “We thought everyone was over this,” said Hamza’s uncle Hassan Bin Laden in an interview with the Guardian, referring to Osama bin Laden. “Then the next thing I knew, Hamza was saying ‘I’m going to avenge my father’… If Hamza was in front of me now I would tell him ‘God guide you. Think twice about what you are doing. Don’t retake the steps of your father. You are entering horrible parts of your soul.” Alla Ghanem,  Osama bin Laden’s mother, said the Saudi-born terrorist was a good man until he was “brainwashed” in the university by ideologues. “He was a very good child until he met some people who pretty much brainwashed him in his early 20s. You can call it a cult,” she said. Photo Credit: Getty

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