The Daily Hatch

Osama bin Laden’s youngest known son — a budding teen terrorist groomed since childhood to wage jihad — likely escaped from the Pakistani compound where his father was killed by Navy SEALs.

Pakistani authorities say Hamza bin Laden, 19, has been unaccounted for since the May 1 raid in which his father, an older brother and two trusted family friends were killed.

Word of Hamza’s disappearance came as one of the older of bin Laden’s 20 or so children, Omar, yesterday blasted the United States for a “criminal mission” that “obliterated an entire defenseless family.” Omar threatened to sue while demanding proof that his father died.

Hamza’s mother, a Saudi named Khairiah Sabar, is one of three bin Laden wives who had been living in the Abbottabad compound. She, along with the other survivors, are in Pakistani custody.

Sabar told Pakistani authorities she hadn’t seen her son since the assault, London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reported.

After the successful assault, the White House initially reported Hamza had been killed, but later said it was another son, Khalid, 24, who died.

Pakistani authorities confirmed that one household member is missing.

Hamza was implicated in the 2007 assassination of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who had written that the young bin Laden was organizing one of “four suicide bomber squads” targeting her.

While Hamza’s whereabouts were being questioned, bin Laden’s son Omar, in a statement posted on jihadi Web sites, accused the United States of having the “goal of killing and not arresting” his father.

The terror scion, 30, who in 2007 married a 54-year-old Briton, blasted “those forces [that] carried out their criminal mission and obliterated an entire defenseless family,” according to the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute.

Omar said the burial at sea of his father was “unacceptable humanely and religiously,” and the son threatened “to follow that crime through the American and international justice [systems] in order to determine the true fate of our vanished father.”

And in a separate statement to The New York Times, Omar wrote: “I Omar Ossama Binladin and my brothers the lawful children and heirs of the Ossama Binladin (OBL) have noted wide coverage of the news of the death of our father, but we are not convinced on the available evidence in the absence of dead body, photographs and video evidence that our natural father is dead.”

Omar also wrote the Times, “If he has been summarily executed, then we question the propriety of such assassination.”

Omar added, “As he [President Obama] condemned our father, we now condemn the president of the United States for ordering the execution of unarmed men and women.”

Meanwhile, the FBI and Homeland Security said there could be terror strikes by “lone wolves” to avenge Osama’s death.

Also, federal prosecutors said Rageh Ahmed Mohammed Al Murisi, a Yemeni who tried to barge into the cockpit of a Chicago-to-San Francisco flight Sunday night, was trying to bring the plane down.

Reuters

CROWN PRINCE OF TERROR?: An undated Al Jazeera television picture purportedly shows Hamza bin Laden, one of the sons of Osama bin Laden, displaying what the Taliban claimed is wreckage from a US helicopter near Ghazni.

President Obama said no Americans were harmed in the operation. Three adult males were also killed in the raid, including one of bin Laden’s sons, whom officials did not name. One of bin Laden’s sons, Hamza, is a senior member of al-Qaida. U.S. officials also said one woman was killed when she was used as a shield by a male combatant, and two other women were injured.