Incredible Osama Bin Laden home videos released by CIA show Al-Qaeda mastermind’s kids playing with animals and guns
INCREDIBLE home footage has been released showing al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden's kids playing with farm animals and guns at his Pakistan hideout.
The trove of video and documents, released yesterday by the CIA, also shows he possessed copies of the kids' films Antz, Chicken Little and the Three Musketeers.
He even kept copies of the viral video "Charlie bit my finger" and YouTube videos about crochet, including "How to Crochet a Flower".
And he had a copy of the video "Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?" and several National Geographic programs including Kung Fu Killers, Inside the Green Berets and World's Worst Venom.
But the footage of children playing in the outdoors offers the most compelling viewing.
Kids are seen playing on slides, shooting guns and water balloons, and running amok through flocks of chicken and other farm animals.
It also offers the first public look at Hamza bin Laden as an adult. Until now, the public has only seen childhood pictures of him.
In recent years, al-Qaeda has released audio messages from the terror leader's son. And to mark a recent anniversary of 9/11, al-Qaeda superimposed a childhood photo of him over a photo of the World Trade Centre.
He is expected to rise to prominence in the jihadist movement and is being closely watched as rival ISIS suffers setbacks in the Middle East.
One hour-long video shows the young bin Laden, sporting a trimmed moustache but no beard, at his wedding.
He is sitting on a carpet with other men. A man chanting Koranic verses can be heard in the background.
Sporting a traditional white headdress, he verbally accepts his marriage to his bride "on the book of God and the example of the prophet. Peace be upon him."
It was the fourth trove of documents, images and computer files recovered during the raid of bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The CIA said the nearly 470,000 additional files offer insights into the inner workings of the terrorist organisation responsible for 9/11.
Also included were 79,000 images and audio files, including practice reels of public speeches, and the terror boss’s 228-page, handwritten personal journal.
The diary reveals bin Laden's hatred of the West began on a trip to William Shakespeare's “morally loose” birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon.
He described travelling to the UK for an unspecified “treatment” when he was 13 before returning the following year to “study” for ten weeks.
During that time, the wealthy son of a Saudi tycoon was “not impressed” by the “decadent” and “morally loose” society in Britain.
He wrote: "I got the impression that they were a loose people, and my age didn’t allow me to form a complete picture of life there.
"We went every Sunday to visit Shakespeare’s house.
"I was not impressed and I saw that they were a society different from ours and that they were a morally loose society."
The journal was reportedly bought in a Pakistani bookshop just hours from the town of Abbottabad, where bin Laden was killed in a daring special forces raid.
The CIA files also reveal the al-Qaeda kingpin kept documents on Prince Harry and tracked his planned deployment to Iraq.
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