(Al-Jazeera via APTN/AP)The voice is that of a soft-spoken 28-year-old, but the message is vintage Osama bin Laden, giving orders to kill. But Hamza bin Laden is not advocating his father’s style of jihad. A family friend who knew Hamza bin Laden as a child said he showed both promise and early flashes of ambition. The other distinction is Hamza bin Laden’s persistent calls for self-directed, lone-wolf attacks against a wide array of targets. “Since a very young age, Hamza bin Laden wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps.

Source: Washington Post May 27, 2017 22:10 UTC