In recent days, a video has been circulating widely on social media in which a man identified as Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden and one of the best-known members of the family of al-Qaeda’s founder, delivers a speech marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. In the speech, he emphasizes continuing the path of Osama bin Laden and what is described as “global jihad.” In one part of the video, the individual whom al-Qaeda identifies as Hamza bin Laden says: “Islam is facing an all-out religious, cultural, economic, and military war by enemies who do not want Islam to prevail.” Elsewhere in the video, al-Qaeda calls for recruitment and claims that “jihad is expanding” and that its power is “terrifying the enemies of God in Washington, London, and Tel Aviv.”
