Intelligence officials in the us are claiming that hamza bin laden, son of the founder of alqaeda, has died. Hamza bin laden, thought to be 30 years old, had released audio and video calling for attacks on the us and other countries, to avenge his fathers assassination by American Special forces eight years ago. The us had offered 1 million for information on him and saudi arabia stripped him of his citizenship in march. Chris buckler is our washington correspondent. Chris, what more do you have on this . Yeah, us media reports are saying that they have now confirmed military officials that hamza bin laden is dead, however, there has been no official word from the pentagon and what we dont know is how or where he died. Although there are some suggestions that happen during what the pentagon is describing privately as an operation. Certainly there have been attem pts operation. Certainly there have been atte m pts to operation. Certainly there have been attempts to find hamza bin laden
Intelligence officials in the us are claiming that hamza bin laden, son of the founder of alqaeda, has died. Hamza bin laden, thought to be 30 years old, had released audio and video calling for attacks on the us and other countries, to avenge his fathers assassination by American Special forces eight years ago. The us had offered a Million Dollars for information on him and saudi arabia stripped him of his citizenship in march. Chris buckler had this update. Media reports are saying that they have now confirmed military officials that hamza bin laden is dead, however, there has been no official word from the pentagon and what we dont know is how or where he died. Although, there are some suggestions that it happened during what the pentagon is describing privately as some kind of operation. Certainly there have been real attempts to find hamza bin laden in recent months. About five months ago us officials offered 1 million for information that led to his capture. And that signified tw
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More than 1,000 people have been arrested in moscow during unauthorised protests against the banning of many opposition candidates from local elections. There were scuffles as police dispersed groups of protesters, who responded with anti putin chants. The Authorities Say around 30 candidates failed to collect enough valid signatures, but the barred candidates say they have been blocked for political reasons. The bbcs 0leg boldyrev was at todays demonstration and sent us this report. Police told muscovites not to come out for this unsanctioned protest, but a few thousand people turned up anyway, and very soon many of them paid for it by being dragged into custody. The arrests were met with defiance. So the police are trying to push back the protesters, who came here because the candidates they support were not allowed to participate in the elections. We dont know how many people came to protest, but certainly there are plenty of people angry that the candidates theyve been supporting w