Osama's son vows revenge against US for killing his father

The son of Osama bin Laden has threatened revenge against the United States for assassinating his father, according to an audio message posted online by Al Qaeda.

Hamza bin Laden promised to continue the global militant group’s fight against the United States and its allies in the 21-minute speech entitled "We Are All Osama," according to the SITE Intelligence Group, an organisation that tracks jihadi organisations online.

“We will continue striking you and targeting you in your country and abroad in response to your oppression of the people of Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and the rest of the Muslim lands that did not survive your oppression,” Hamza said.

In the message, Hamza goes on to say, “As for the revenge by the Islamic nation for Sheikh Osama, may Allah have mercy on him, it is not revenge for Osama the person but it is revenge for those who defended Islam.”

In 2011, US commandos killed Osama at his Pakistani hideout in a covert operation in response to the 9/11 attacks.

Hamza, now in his mid-twenties, was at his father’s side in Afghanistan before the 9/11 attacks and spent time with him in Pakistan after the US-led invasion pushed much of Al Qaeda’s senior leadership there, according to the think tank Brookings Institution.