Osama’s son calls for destruction of US and its allies

The youngest son of Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden has called for US and its allies to be wiped out.

The youngest son of Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden has called for Britain and its allies to be wiped out.

Hamza Bin Ladan, 16, the youngest of the Saudi-born warlord’s 18 sons, is claimed to be the author of a poem featured on an extremist website to mark the third anniversary of the July 7 London bombings in which 52 innocent people died.

In the website, the boy dubbed the ‘Crown Prince of Terror’, called for an acceleration in the “destruction” of America, Britain, France and Denmark, the latter singled out for the publishing by its largest selling broadsheet of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

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Patrick Mercer, the Conservative MP and a former shadow minister for security, said of the reading: “We now have the Crown Prince of Terror taking up his father’s mantle.” Hamza, the only son from Bin Laden’s marriage to his Saudi wife, is believed to be living on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the lawless territory of Waziristan.

In his posthumous autobiography published after she was assassinated at a political rally in her home country, the former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto named the teenager as the leader of one of a number of gangs plotting to kill her.

The allegation, which Bhutto said was reported to her by President Pervez Musharraf and a “friendly Muslim government”, holstered intelligence claims that Hamza is being groomed as a future leader of Al-Qaeda.

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