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Hamza Bin Laden, a son of late al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden seen as a rising jihadist leader, has been stripped of his Saudi citizenship, state newspaper Umm al-Qura said Friday.
Bin Laden, who according to Washington is around 30, has threatened attacks against the US to avenge the 2011 killing of his father -- who was living in hiding in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad -- by US special forces. On the eve of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Hamza was separated from his father, whom he was never to see again.
Observers say that the clerical regime in Tehran kept him under house arrest as a way to maintain pressure on rival Saudi Arabia as well as on Al-Qaeda, dissuading the Sunni militants from attacking Iran.
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