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Obsession of murder but harnessing of social media to create a global franchise amongst people it often never met. in libya people were attracted to isis brand to commit atrocities and each die from it. but in november 2014 rumors a strike hitting him and within a week and recording of his speech. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: it became a partner. no public appearances mixed with audio statements and u.s. officials told cnn they believe he was injured in may 2017' had to take five months away from his leadership duties yet from that moment on wards what is left of isis caliphat...

International correspondent ben wiederman. what do we know about hamza bin laden? >> we know that he's probably around 30 years old. he probably was born either in pakistan or afghanistan. he's the 15th of osama bin laden's 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 he's put out several audio statements calling for lone wolf attacks against americans, british

Through social media. >> reporter: commanding isis' army of videographers and editors, the group's spokesman, said to be so important to isis he holds a position underite leader,ing abaghdadi. >> the guy chosen by isis to do battle when they had the big, you know, dogfight in early 2014 about who was right, isis or al qaeda. >> reporter: he has given several audio statements for isis but despite being a spokesman for the group he avoids appearing in any videos. analyst says that's for his own security. he's got a $5 million u.s. bounty on his head. and western forces have taken out several top...

George were martin has in essence testified he has given video and audio statements. they have got ton know george because is he sitting in the courtroom. it's going to be hard to look at him and think he is full of ill will and hate. what the prosecution right that his false assumptions about travon martin. unreasonable assumption that a man armed with skittles and with tea that that was a man he should be feared. what the defense has got to do tomorrow is say, no, george zimmerman is walking through the dark and out of the blue he got jumped. he had no idea whether trayvon martin was alone. ...

Given up tracking of trayvon martin. they have got the jury has got to believe all those audio statements and the video statements of george zimmerman to believe that he was not the aggressor and that he was surprised and had a reasonable fear of his life. but i will tell you, this was actually -- i know a lot of people didn't think it was a great closing argument by the prosecution but if you look at it and it dissect it they sort of abandoned the murder in the second they really focused on manslaughter. that's a serious charge here. the jury may want to compromise and give a little bit to th...