TIL Desk/World/London/ Hamza bin Laden, the son of slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, married the daughter of Mohammed Atta, the leader of the hijackers who carried out the deadly 9/11 terror attacks in the US, according to a media report.
The family of the deceased Al Qaeda leader confirmed that Hamza married Atta’s daughter. Atta, an Egyptian national, piloted American Airlines Flight 11, which was the first of the hijackings, into the North Tower of the World Trade Center- killing all 92 onboard and around 1,600 people, including emergency responders, in the tower.
Hamza, 29, has assumed a senior position within Al Qaeda and was aiming to avenge the death of his father, who was shot dead during a covert US military raid in Pakistan’s Abbottabad seven years ago, Osama’s half-brothers Ahmad and Hassan al-Attas were quoted as saying. In May 2011, US Navy SEALs stormed Osama’s Abbottabad compound where he was living with three of wives and shot him dead. Hamza’s brother Khalid was also killed in the US raid.
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