Osama terror scion confirmed dead by U.S.

Hamza Bin Laden, the bloodthirsty son of the terrorist mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is dead, according to reports Wednesday.

Bin Laden, who had been groomed to follow in his father’s twisted footsteps and take over leadership of Al Qaeda, was killed at some point in the past two years, but it took U.S. intelligence agencies until Wednesday to confirm his death, multiple sources told The New York Times.

The Times’ sources said the U.S. government played some type of role in the assassination, but details about Bin Laden’s death, including where and how it happened, were not immediately known.

President Trump was asked by reporters about Bin Laden on Wednesday afternoon but uncharacteristically declined to comment.

In his last public statement released by Al Qaeda’s media arm last year, Hamza Bin Laden called for attacks against the U.S. similar to the one his father launched on the World Trade Center in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001.

The terror attack — the worst in American history — took the lives of 2,996 people and continues to cause pain for first responders who spent months searching for survivors in the rubble of the twin towers.

After a Navy SEAL team killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011 during a raid on his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the Al Qaeda leader’s top lieutenants began training the younger Bin Laden to take over his father’s role as the top official of the extremist group.

Hamza Bin Laden pledged to avenge his father’s death, and fled to Iran with other Al Qaeda members. Iran held them in detention but eventually allowed them to leave and it is believed Bin Laden relocated to an area near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

In February, the State Department announced a $1 million reward for information about Bin Laden’s whereabouts.

However, sources told The Times that the terrorist heir had already been killed at that point, but that U.S. intelligence agencies had not yet been able to confirm it.

The CIA continues to hunt Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the elder Bin Laden’s senior deputies who took over Al Qaeda’s leadership after his death.