Osama Bin Laden's 16-year-old son calls for Britain's 'destruction' in new terror video

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As the world's most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden often used internet broadcasts exhorting his followers to continue their battle against the infidel West.

Now the 16-year-old son of the Al Qaeda leader appears to be following in his father’s footsteps in a chilling new internet film which shows him calling for the ‘destruction’ of Britain.

Dressed in a military camouflaged waistcoat over traditional Afghan dress Hamza Bin Laden, the youngest of the Al Qaeda chief’s 18 sons, recites a poem he has written.

The video begins with a short introduction that says: ‘We now offer you a new poem by Sheikh Hamza Bin Laden, may God protect him.’

Clutching his AK47 rifle Bin Laden begins by calling for the destruction of Britain.

'Accelerate the destruction of America, Britain, France and Denmark, ' he says.

The poem continues: ‘Oh God, reward the fighters hitting the infidels and defectors.'

‘Oh God, guide the youth of the Islamic nation and let them assist with the fighters' plans.’

‘God, be pleased with those who want to go for jihad – and blind those who are watching and want to capture them.

‘Grant victory to the Taliban over the gangs of infidels.’

Tory MP Patrick Mercer said of the reading: 'The sins of the father are being visited upon the son. We now have the Crown Prince of Terror taking up his father’s mantle.'

The release of the video appears to have been timed to mark the third anniversary of the July 7th bombings in London.

Last November, just a month before she was assassinated, Pakistan's former prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said that Hamza Bin Laden was one of a number of warlords who intended to kill her.

In an interview for Al Jazeera, Bhutto said that her killers would come from either ‘a gang from the Afghanistan warlord Baitullah Mehsud, or Hamza bin Laden the son of Osama bin Laden, or the Pakistani Taliban in Islamabad, or by a group in Karachi."