A US official confirms to CNN that Hamza bin Laden, Osama bin Laden's son, is believed dead and that the United States had a role in his death
Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is the author of four books about al-Qaeda including"Manhunt: The Ten Year Search for bin Laden, from 9/11 to Abbottabad." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles at CNN.
The night that Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011, in Abbottabad Pakistan, the US Navy SEAL operators who carried out the mission were carrying cards with the names and descriptions of who was likely to be in the compound that night. Among them was Hamza bin Laden. For much of the decade after 9/11, Hamza lived under a form of house arrest in Iran until he was released by the Iranian regime in 2010.
At bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad the SEALs recovered thousands of documents, including letters from bin Laden that showed that al Qaeda's leader had been communicating with Hamza.
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