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Sheikh Hamza bin Laden

“Baby-faced” bin Laden boy’s bar mitzvah debut on World Web



imageIt is only the British tabloids that could describe Osama bin Laden’s infidel-hating son, Hamza, as a poet. “THIS (emphasis, The Sun’s) is Osama Bin (sic) Laden’s school-age son, who yesterday continued his father’s mission of hate—with a POEM (emphasis The Sun’s) begging for Britain to be destroyed.” (Simon Hughes, Chief Investigative Reporter, The Sun, July 8, 2008). Noting that the 16-year-old son of the world’s most wanted terrorist was “baby-faced”, The Sun pointed out that he has already been dubbed, the “Crown Prince of Terror”. In his message to wannabe terrorists, bin Laden Jr. wants to “Accelerate the destruction of America, Britain, France and Denmark.”

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Interesting how the youngest of the al-Qaeda leader’s brood of 18 sons would pick on Britain, a nation, arguably the world’s most accommodating in regards to radical Islam. Indeed, the eldest son of that country’s reigning monarch, wants to change the words in the title of Prince of Wales as defender of the “faith”, to “defender of the faiths” (emphasis CFP’s) when he succeeds as king. The threat from Hamza bin Laden appeared on an extremist website and apparently marked the three years since the 7/7 London terrorist attack that killed 52 innocents. The reason why The Sun describes the threat as a ditty or poem is likely because that’s how it was presented in the short introduction on the website, which announced: “We now offer you a new poem by Sheikh Hamza Bin (sic) Laden, may God protect him”. Hamza could be housed with his father, who is thought to be hiding on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, where he has to decamp cave to cave. Among bin Laden’s 18 sons, The Sun-described “lad” is the only one by his Saudi wife. Here are some of the “lad’s” poetic words: “Oh God, reward the fighters hitting the infidels and defectors. Oh God, guide the youth of the Islamic nation and let them assist with the fighters’ plans. “God, be pleased with those who want to go for jihad—and blind those who are watching and want to capture them.” Says The Sun: “The words, believed to be recited by the lad himself—(were) accompanied (by) a short video clip featuring old footage of his dad”. “Terrorist expert Chris Dobson said: “Despite his youth he is emerging as Bin Laden’s likely heir”. We don’t know how Dobson ever could have reached that conclusion. Tory MP Patrick Mercer, a member of the Home Affairs Committee, said: “The sins of the father are being visited upon the son. We now have the Crown Prince of Terror taking up his father’s mantle.” Any history lesson would teach Mercer that the only Crown Prince in Britain is in Buckingham Palace. Meanwhile, the romancing of the tabloids does not make “baby-faced” Hamza bin Laden, Robin Hood. And for certain, he’s no dreamy-eyed Longfellow.


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Judi McLeod -- Bio and Archives -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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