Washington : Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza, known as the ‘Crown Prince of Terror’, has asked al-Qaeda supporters to carry out lone wolf attacks in the US and in countries that are its allies.
The slain al-Qaeda chief’s son, in his mid 20s, told Al Qaeda supporters to carry out lone wolf attacks in Washington, DC, Paris and Tel-Aviv in a video message. “This is your duty,” Hamza bin Laden said as he called to move the jihadist war from the Middle East to allies of the US and Jewish Americans, according to SITE Intelligence Group.
Al-Qaeda hopes to renew its popularity by “reviving the brand” of Bin Laden, SITE’s Executive Director Rita Katz said. The extremist group’s “leadership wants Hamza as a future leader: someone loved & inspirational, without a negative reputation or participation in infighting,” she tweeted. Photos released shortly after 9/11 show Hamza reading poems to adult militants.
He escaped the US Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama in his Pakistan compound in 2011.
