He is seen first as a child, reciting a poem in his sweet choirboy voice, at the wedding of his 19-year-old brother, Muhammad.And then he delivers an all-too-familiar rhetorical diatribe.“I am warning America that its people will face terrible consequences if they chase my father. Fighting Americans is the basis of faith.”It was early 2001 and the marriage ceremony was documented on video.The youngster, Hamza bin Laden, was around 10 years old.He’s spotted again, two months after the Sept. 11 attacks, in the company of two brothers, playing in the wreckage of, allegedly, an American helicopter shot down by the Taliban in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province. That propaganda video was released by Al Qaeda.In 2004, he stars in a video posted to an Arabic website, dressed in combat fatigues, receiving instruction at a desert commando camp. He speaks for three minutes, directing holy war statements to Muslim children.Within a year, AK-47 slung over his shoulder, he is celebrating, allegedly, an attack against Pakistan soldiers at a hilltop encampment and, in the 19-minute film, denounces the Pakistani government for co-operating in the U.S.-led fight against Al Qaeda.In 2008, in a posthumously published autobiography by Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistan prime minister names the teenager as part of four groups of “designated assassins” sent to kill her. Bhutto was assassinated as she left a December 2007 rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.There has been additional footage — strictly audio — over the years: Hamza ranting against the West and Israel, applauding the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, urging jihad in Syria.Just this past November, the CIA released a trove of declassified material recovered from Osama bin Laden’s compound during the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in which the Al Qaeda founder and Sept. 11 mastermind was killed, along with one of his sons, Khalid. One of the videos provides glimpses of Hamza on what is appar ...
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