OSAMA bin Laden’s son is reportedly running terror cult Al Qaeda despite claims he was killed in 2019, intelligence reports have revealed.
Hamza bin Laden, dubbed the Crown Prince of Terror, is leading the group responsible for the devastating 9/11 attacks masterminded by his father.
Hamza bin Laden is seen as an adult at his wedding, in video released by the CIA
Osama bin Laden is seen at a news conference in Khost, Afghanistan, in footage released by the CIA
Armed Taliban fighters sit on top of a military truck in Kabul
Hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11
Intelligence reports have revealed that his brother Abdullah is also active inside Al Qaeda and that the group is gearing up to unleash fresh attacks on the West.
Al Qaeda is reportedly collaborating with ISIS and the Taliban across Afghanistan where over a dozen different terror groups are flocking to train, the Mirror reports.
A report shared by the National Mobilization Front (NMF), an anti-Taliban military alliance, revealed that he is hiding in northern Afghanistan under the constant protection of 450 snipers.
It warned that since the 2021 fall of Kabul – when US forces withdrew and the Taliban took over completely – the country has become a “training centre for various terrorist groups”.
One of the reports seen by the Mirror reads: “Hamza bin Laden is not only alive but actively involved in al-Qaeda’s resurgence, a fact well-known among senior Taliban leaders”.
It said the terror boss’ son, thought to be in his 30s, “has ascended to the leadership of al-Qaeda, steering [it] towards its most potent resurgence since the Iraq War.”
“These leaders… engage with him, holding regular meetings and securing him and his family,” it reads.
“It highlights a deep connection between al-Qaeda and the Taliban, one that is crucial for Western governments to understand.”
The report also warned that “under his command, al-Qaeda is regrouping and preparing for future attacks on Western targets”.
“Hamza is driven by a powerful determination to continue the legacy of his father, which adds a symbolic and strategic weight to his actions,” it added.
“Moreover, Hamza’s brother, Abdullah bin Laden, plays a critical role in this revival.”
Taliban fighters inside the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul after their takeover in 2021
ISIS fighters march in propaganda photos released by the terror group
A military parade was held by the Taliban at the former US Bagram air base to mark three years since they stormed Kabul, August 2024
A third report has listed as many as 21 terror networks all working in the Taliban-run country.
It revealed how camps there are training fighters and suicide bombers, teaching them how to travel out of Afghanistan to launch attacks against the West.
“The parallels between the current situation and the prelude to the 9/11 attacks are alarming,” the report concluded.
“The lack of a legitimate government and the ideological alignment between the ruling Taliban regime and these groups have turned Afghanistan into a haven for extremism.
“Terrorists from outside flock to the country for training.”
The NMF intelligence said that in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Al Qaeda and ISIS have a “hideout”.
In some villages there are both Al Qaeda and ISIS hubs – but their presence is kept hidden.
The report said: “In Imam Sahib district, in the villages of Gambez, Kuperak, Pul Madar Qalam, Gozer Aftabalgh, and Ishan Top, there are joint centers of Al-Qaeda and ISIS activities.
It added “outside of which the Taliban flag is repaired [sic], but inside the center, which is divided into two parts, each group has their own flags.”
It revealed how at some point in the last two years Hamza had been moved to Panjshir, in north-east Afghanistan, where “450 Arabs and Pakistanis are protecting him”.
Once a week leaders of the Taliban visit him in the Dara Abdullah Khel district, in “heavily guarded black cars”.
Former US President Donald Trump announced in 2019 that Hamza had been killed in an American airstrike on south-east Afghanistan.
The CIA obtained no DNA proof.
He was an officially designated terrorist and had threatened to launch attacks against the West.
His father Osama orchestrated the horrific 9/11 attacks which killed some 3,000 people with several plane crashes.
US Navy SEALs assassinated him in a raid on a house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011.
Some of the different training barracks in Afghanistan listed in the report are in Ghazni, Laghman, Parwan, Uruzgan, Zabul, Nangarhar, Nuristan, Badghis and Kunar.
One of them is believed to be in the Helmand Province where British troops were based as they fought the Taliban.
Hamza is shown in a grab from an undated Al Qaeda training video
A young Hamza seen in a grab taken from a television broadcast
Taliban are unstoppable after West’s 2021 retreat… we must brace for next 9/11, warns ex-British Army boss in Kabul
EXCLUSIVE by Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
THE Taliban pose an unstoppable threat to the West three years on from capturing Kabul, a former British Army chief has warned.
Colonel Richard Kemp, who commanded British troops in Afghanistan, told The Sun the withdrawal of allied forces in 2021 has opened us up to the possibility of another terror attack like 9/11.
After British and American soldiers were pulled from the Afghan capital, security forces fell and the Taliban was able to claim full control of Kabul.
They quickly swarmed on the besieged city – sparking a frantic emergency evacuation on August 15, 2021 as Brits and other foreign nationals scrambled to flee.
Richard warned that the disastrous move – headed up by US President Joe Biden – made the US look weak to dangerous actors in the region.
As a result terrorist groups like ISIS, Al Qaeda and Iran’s proxy networks – all tied to Afghanistan – have moved to “exploit” Western vulnerabilities in recent years.
Army chief Colonel Kemp has warned that almost nothing can be done to stop the web of terror being spun by the Taliban as they continue to grow.
Speaking to The Sun three years after the fall of Kabul, he said of the Taliban stronghold: “There’s not much we can do to stop it, because we removed everything from there.
“We took away all of our armed forces, and with them, we took away our intelligence capabilities there.”
He believes terror attacks and wars around the world can be directly tied back to Afghanistan.
And that we face attacks on British soil as a result of our withdrawal from the ravaged region.
“Even today we’ve seen in various places around the world, terrorist operations emanating from Afghanistan,” Colonel Kemp said.
“We’ve seen Al Qaeda coming back into Afghanistan more powerfully than they had been.
“Islamic State growth in Afghanistan, other jihadist groups there as well.”
Colonel Kemp also warned that the development of jihadist capabilities in Afghanistan may have the potential to directly threaten Britain in the future.
He told how the ISIS ambush on a concert hall in Moscow in March – Europe’s deadliest terrorist attack in 20 years – was directly tied to “jihadists in Afghanistan”.
Colonel Kemp was in the British Army for 30 years and commanded the UK forces in Kabul in the 2000s.
He oversaw security operations in the capital which involved patrol activity and guard duties but most importantly the training of Afghanistan’s army and police to defend against the Taliban.
Speaking of his time there from late 2001 onwards, he said: “We were involved in demobilisation and disarming of some of the local forces there and integrating them into government forces.
“The mission in Afghanistan by British, American and other allied troops succeeded in its primary mission, which was to prevent Afghanistan from again becoming a base from which 9/11 type attacks could be launched.”
Two decades on from his first visit Kemp says Biden’s decision to withdrawal all US troops from the area “was a tremendous error”.
Only a small number of around 900 soldiers from Britain and the US remained in Kabul when Biden pulled them all out.
He said: “Afghanistan should be one of our major concerns, what happens there, what’s going on, what could develop from Afghanistan.”
A desperate parent handing over their baby to a US soldier at Kabul airport – an image that came to symbolise the chaos of the airlift
Western soldiers crammed into a plane on their way home from Afghanistan three years ago