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Washington (CNN)One of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden's 11 sons has been placed on a State Department terror watch list after he reportedly threatened terror attacks against the US.
Hamza bin Laden was named as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist," which "imposes sanctions on foreign persons determined to have committed, or pose a serious risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of US nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States," according to a release Thursday from the State Department.
Analysts have described the younger bin Laden, who was born in 1989, as a "crown prince" of al Qaeda, the terror group founded by his father and associates in the late 1980s.
Hamza was said to have been close to his father, and was often by his side as he grew up.
As a young boy he was seen in al Qaeda propaganda videos, surrounded by men wielding guns, making threats against the West.
"From a very early age, his father was kind of grooming him," said CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen, author of the book "United States of Jihad."
"Hamza has been very much indoctrinated with the whole jihadi kind of message. He's a true believer. I think that makes him a concern," he said earlier this year.
Al Qaeda threat
Al Qaeda staged its most audacious attack on US soil on September 11, 2001, when its members carried out four co-ordinated attacks on major US targets, killing round 3,000 people.
The attack proTerror group's future leader?
In his late 20s, Hamza bin Laden is considered to be the potential new face of al Qaeda. mpted the US invasion of Afghanistan in the search for the al Qaeda leadership and its allies in the Taliban.
Bin Laden was killed in a raid by US Navy SEALs on his hideout in Abbottabad, northeastern Pakistan in 2011.
Bergen said the SEALS thought Hamza might have been there when they dropped from helicopters onto the bin Laden compound on May 2 but he wasn't.
Washington (CNN)One of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden's 11 sons has been placed on a State Department terror watch list after he reportedly threatened terror attacks against the US.
Hamza bin Laden was named as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist," which "imposes sanctions on foreign persons determined to have committed, or pose a serious risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of US nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States," according to a release Thursday from the State Department.
Analysts have described the younger bin Laden, who was born in 1989, as a "crown prince" of al Qaeda, the terror group founded by his father and associates in the late 1980s.
Hamza was said to have been close to his father, and was often by his side as he grew up.
As a young boy he was seen in al Qaeda propaganda videos, surrounded by men wielding guns, making threats against the West.
"From a very early age, his father was kind of grooming him," said CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen, author of the book "United States of Jihad."
"Hamza has been very much indoctrinated with the whole jihadi kind of message. He's a true believer. I think that makes him a concern," he said earlier this year.
Al Qaeda threat
Al Qaeda staged its most audacious attack on US soil on September 11, 2001, when its members carried out four co-ordinated attacks on major US targets, killing round 3,000 people.
The attack proTerror group's future leader?
In his late 20s, Hamza bin Laden is considered to be the potential new face of al Qaeda. mpted the US invasion of Afghanistan in the search for the al Qaeda leadership and its allies in the Taliban.
Bin Laden was killed in a raid by US Navy SEALs on his hideout in Abbottabad, northeastern Pakistan in 2011.
Bergen said the SEALS thought Hamza might have been there when they dropped from helicopters onto the bin Laden compound on May 2 but he wasn't.
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