Usama bin
Laden’s son reportedly seeks to avenge his father’s death and is poised to
become the new leader of Al Qaeda.
Personal
letters seized in the raid that killed bin Laden show that his son, Hamza, is
set on avenging his father’s death, Ali Soufan, a former FBI agent, told CBS News in an interview that will air Sunday.
"He
tells him that…he remembers 'every look…every smile you gave me, every word you
told me,’” Soufan said about bin Laden’s son. Soufan also told CBS News that
Hamza wrote that he considers himself “to be forged in steel.”
Soufan said
that Hamza’s path to become the leader of the terrorist organization was
created years ago when he was used as a propaganda tool in bin Laden’s videos.
He was seen sometimes holding a gun.
The agent
added that he has even started to sound like his father.
“His recent
message that came out, he delivered the speech as if it's his father, using
sentences, terminology that was used by Usama bin Laden,” Soufan said.
Hamza is
believed to be about 28 years old and has been named as a “specially designated
global terrorist” by the U.S. Hamza has recorded four audio messages in the
last two years, aimed at the U.S.
"He's
basically saying, 'American people, we're coming and you're going to feel it,”
Soufan said. “And we're going to take revenge for what you did to my father.
Iraq, Afghanistan'. The whole thing was about vengeance."
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