US officials: Osama bin Laden’s son is dead

Few details were offered about the death of Hamza bin Laden or if the U.S. was responsible, NBC says.

By World Israel News Staff

The son and “potential successor” of Al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is dead, NBC News reported on Wednesday, basing its information on intelligence shared by three U.S. officials.

Few details were offered about the death of Hamza bin Laden or if the U.S. was responsible, NBC says.

In March, the U.S. State Department offered a $ 1 million award for anyone providing information about Hamza bin Laden’s location.

Hamza has posted messages in videos similar to those his father once disseminated, urging his followers to “attack the U.S. and its allies in revenge for his father’s death,” NBC reports.

Osama’s son is around 30 years old. He went with his father to Afghtanistan in 1996 as a young boy and could be seen in the terror group’s propaganda videos at that time, says the report.

Osama bin Laden was responsible for the worst attack on America’s shores, orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist strike on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The death toll was 2,977 killed.

He had been responsible for many other mass attacks worldwide.

After hiding in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Osama bin Laden was finally tracked down and killed by Navy SEALS on May 2, 2011.

NBC reports that “letters seized from the compound suggested the elder bin Laden wanted his son to join him in Abbottabad and was grooming him as a leader.”