Saudi Arabia revokes citizenship of Hamza bin Laden

Saudi Arabia anunced Friday it h revoked citizenship of Hamza bin Len, son of late al-Qaida leer who has become an increasingly prominent figure in terror network.

Saudi Arabia revoked his citizenship via a royal decree in vember, a tice published Friday by kingdom's official gazette said.

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However, anuncement comes after US government offered a USD 1 million reward for information leing to his capture as part of its "Rewards for Justice" program.

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Bin Len, who according to United States is around 30, has threatened attacks against United States to avenge 2011 killing of his far, who was living in hiding in Pakistani garrison town of Abbottab, by US special forces.

Bin Len's son has emerged as a leer of al-Qaida terrorist group. 

"Hamza bin Len is son of deceased former AQ leer Osama bin Len and is emerging as a leer in AQ franchise," a State Department statement said, referring to Al-Qaeda.

His far was killed in a US military raid in Pakistan in May 2011.

Hamza bin Len was named a "specially designated global terrorist" in January 2017. He has released audio and video messs calling for attacks against U.S. and its allies.

US intelligence ncies increasingly see younger bin Len as a successor to his far for mantle of global jih, especially as even more extreme Islamic State group is down to its last sliver of land in Syria.

But Hamza bin Len's whereabouts have been a matter of dispute. He is believed to have spent years along with his mor in Iran, despite Al-Qaeda's strident denunciations of Shiite branch of Islam that dominates country.

Observers say that clerical regime in Tehran kept him under house arrest as a way to maintain pressure on rival Saudi Arabia as well as on Al-Qaeda, dissuing Sunni militants from attacking Iran.

One of Hamza bin Len's half-brors told Guardian last year that Hamza's whereabouts were unkwn but that he may be in Afghanistan.

He also said that Hamza bin Len married daughter of Mohammed Atta, le hijacker in Al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001 attacks on United States that killed some 3,000 people and sparked US intervention in Afghanistan.

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