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Hamza might die in a cia drone attack and was urging him to leave the area where all these drone attacks have happened which is on the pakistan side of the afghanistan/pakistan border. what does this mean for al qaeda? theyve lost many of their top leaders. their ability to attack in the west is constrained. the last successful attack al qaeda completed was in london in 2005. the fact that hamza is dead, you know, is not insignificant, but i wouldnt say its a seismic event.

Chatter about his death has happened. my guess is thats a good confirmation if family members are saying, yes, hamza is dead. >> matthew, do you see any kind of chatter, if there is to be chatter, as a result of this announcement, that that has been used as a recruitment tool? >> it goes both ways. the u.s. and others have delayed announcing to try to pick up on who is talking about it and listening to what theyre saying. this seems to make it harder to recruit more than be a recruitment tool. h...

Old and out of touch. hamza was to reinvigorate them. this suggests it will be that much harder for al qaeda to reemerge to what they were. >> is there any view of the white houses announcement of this nearly a week after president trump saying there was going to be a meeting with the taliban and then it was canceled? do you see any tie to that? >> i dont know. there are other forms of confirmation other than dna which would be really hard. i talked to somebody who is quite close to the members ...

International correspondent ben wiederman. what do we know about hamza bin laden? >> we know that hes probably around 30 years old. he probably was born either in pakistan or afghanistan. hes the 15th of osama bin ladens 20 children. we know from documents found by u.s. forces in pakistan where in may 2011 they killed his father, osama bin laden, all indications were that hamza was in some way being trained or groomed to succeed his father. now over the last few years hes put out several audio s...