Saudi Arabia has revoked the citizenship of Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al Qaida leader, after the United States offered a bounty of one million US dollars for help locating him.
The Saudi decision to strip him of his citizenship was made by a royal order in November, according to a statement published in the Um al-Qura official journal.
A US State Department notice issued on Thursday says the reward will be paid for help locating the 30-year-old in any country as part its “rewards for justice” programme.
The announcement says bin Laden’s son has emerged as a leader of the al Qaida terrorist group.
His father was killed in a US military raid in Pakistan in May 2011.
Hamza was thought to be under house arrest in Iran at the time, and documents recovered from the compound indicated that aides had been trying to reunite him with his father.
Hamza bin Laden was named a “specially designated global terrorist” in January 2017 and has released audio and video messages calling for attacks against the US and its allies.
Al Qaida was responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US and other notorious actions.