The son of 9/11 terror mastermind Osama bin Laden has married the daughter of the lead hijacker of planes that struck the Twin Towers in New York City, the Guardian reported.
The marriage of Hamza bin Laden and the daughter of Atta, an Egyptian national, was confirmed by Osama bin Laden’s half-brothers, Ahmad and Hassan al-Attas, the Guardian reported, adding the pair think Hamza now holds a top spot within al-Qaida and is aiming to avenge his father’s death during a 2011 U.S. raid in Pakistan.
“We have heard he has married the daughter of Mohammed Atta,” said Ahmad al-Attas. “We’re not sure where he is, but it could be Afghanistan.”
Hamza bin Laden has made public statements urging followers to wage war on Washington, London, Paris and Tel Aviv and is seen as a deputy to the terrorist group’s current leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, according to the Guardian.
“When we thought everyone was over this, next thing I knew was Hamza saying I am going to avenge my father,” Hassan al-Attas told the outlet.
“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 really negative and horrible parts of your soul.’”
Hamza bin Laden is the son of one of Osama bin Laden’s three surviving wives, Khairiah Sabar, who was living with her husband in a compound in Abbottabad, near a large Pakistani military base, when the terrorist leader was killed.
Another of bin Laden’s sons, Khalid, was killed in the 2011 raid in Abbottabad. A third, Saad, was killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan in 2009. Letters purportedly written by Osama bin Laden and seized from the compound suggested he was grooming Hamza to replace him, partly to avenge the death of Saad, the Guardian reported.
Bin Laden’s wives and surviving children have returned to Saudi Arabia, where they were given refuge by the former crown prince Mohammed bin Nayef. They stay in close contact with bin Laden’s mother, Alia Ghanem, the Guardian reported.
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