US offers $1,000,000 reward to catch global terrorist son of Osama bin Laden

The US has offered a reward of up to $1,000,000 for help in tracking down the son of the late terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

Hamza bin Laden is emerging as a leader of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda in the wake of his father’s death, the US government has said.

He is thought to be based around the Afghan-Pakistan border and was named as a ‘specially designated global terrorist’ in 2017.

In recent years he has released audio and video messages calling for attacks against the US and its allies.

Osama bin Laden was killed in a US military raid on his home in Pakistan in May 2011.

The terror chief was responsible for the 9/11 attacks in the US, which killed nearly 3,000 people.

Hamza bin Laden married the daughter of Mohammed Atta, who hijacked one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York.

He is believed to be about 30 years old.

The raid to kill bin Laden snr at his complex in Abbottabad, Pakistan was ordered by then-President Barack Obama.

Letters found in the home suggested he was grooming Hamza to take over as leader of al-Qaeda.

In recent years, the terror group has been eclipsed by Islamic State who have attempted to build a caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

However, security experts say that al Qaeda still remains a threat and has been having a strategic pause.

US co-ordinator for counter terrorism, Nathan Sales, said: ‘Today’s al-Qaeda is not stagnant.

‘It’s rebuilding and it continues to threat the United States and its allies.

‘Make no mistake, al-Qaeda retains both the capability and the intent to hit us.’

The reward from the US Justice Department is the equivalent of £750,000.

Source: Metro