Hamza is increasingly being seen as the successor to his late father Osama bin Laden
The US State Department says he married the daughter of Mohammed Atta, the hijacker who crashed one of the commercial aircraft into the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11th, 2001.The US officially listed Hamza bin Laden as a global terrorist two years ago. US offers $1m reward in hunt for Osama bin Laden's son.US officials say Hamza bin Laden has now called on his followers to take revenge for the capture and death of his father.
Hamza has been described as Osama bin Laden's favourite son, and the State Department says items seized from his father's hiding place in Pakistan suggest he was preparing Hamza to replace him as al-Qaeda's leader. Some 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.
More attention has been paid recently to Islamic State than its rival al-Qaeda. But Shashank Joshi, the Economist's Defence editor told RTÉ's News at One programme today:
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