Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaeda leader who has become an increasingly prominent figure in the terror network.
There was no immediate explanation why the royal decree stripping his citizenship, signed in November, was only becoming public now. However, the announcement comes after thefor information leading to his capture as part of its "Rewards for Justice" program.Credit:The kingdom similarly stripped Osama bin Laden's citizenship in 1994 while living in exile in Sudan when Hamza bin Laden was just a child. Where the younger bin Laden is now remains in question.
As leader of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden oversaw a series of attacks, including the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, as well as the bombing of the USS Cole off Yemen. He and others plotted and executed the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, which led to the US invasion of Afghanistan. US Navy SEALs ultimately killed bin Laden in a raid on a house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011.
Video released by the CIA in 2017 that was seized during the Abbottabad raid shows Hamza with a trimmed moustache but no beard, at his wedding. Previous images have only shown him as a child. The US State Department said in its announcement on Friday that it believed he married the daughter of Mohamed Atta, the lead hijacker in the September 11 attacks.Hamza bin Laden began appearing in militant videos and recordings in 2015 as an al-Qaeda spokesman.
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