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Offline TomSea

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Bin Laden’s son wants to avenge his father, ex-FBI agent says

Bin Laden documents reveal a loving, vengeful son who might take his father’s role atop an al Qaeda that’s stronger than ever, says ex-FBI agent

    2017 May 12
 

Personal letters seized in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden reveal the al Qaeda leader's son to be a young man who adores his father and wants to carry on his murderous ideology. That son today is poised to lead a stronger, larger al Qaeda and is bent on avenging his dad's death, says an ex-FBI agent familiar with those documents. Holly Williams interviews Ali Soufan, the former FBI agent who was the bureau's lead investigator of al Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks, on the next edition of 60 Minutes Sunday, May 14 at 7 p.m. ET/PT. 

Soufan describes a letter from the son, Hamza, that was collected in the raid and now declassified.  "He tells him that…he remembers 'every look…every smile you gave me, every word you told me.'" Hamza would be about 28 now and wrote the letter when he was 22 and had not seen his father in several years.  Hamza also wrote this: "I consider myself to be forged in steel. The path of jihad for the sake of God is what we live."

Continued: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/preview-the-bin-laden-documents/

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Re: Bin Laden’s son wants to avenge his father, ex-FBI agent says
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2017, 04:24:16 pm »
Just for my curiousity: he had ~25 children, 7 of whom were sons.

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Re: Bin Laden’s son wants to avenge his father, ex-FBI agent says
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2017, 05:23:13 pm »
These are no Cathars, but

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