Bhutto 'was warned' of bomber squads

London: In an autobiography being published after her assassination, opposition leader Benazir Bhutto says she was warned four suicide bomber squads would try to kill her, one led by Osama Bin Laden's 16-year-old son, according to a British newspaper.

The former prime minister - who was killed in Rawalpindi in December while campaigning for elections - wrote that President Pervez Musharraf and a "foreign Muslim government" had informed her these squads were planning her murder, according to excerpts of the book published in The Sunday Times of London.

The naming of Bin Laden's teenage son, Hamza, could bolster intelligence claims that he is being groomed as a future leader of Al Qaida.

He featured in a joint Taliban and Al Qaida video shot in 2001 of a militant attack on an army camp in South Waziristan.

In September, he was described in reports as a senior Al Qaida leader who had been waging a jihad, or holy war, in the lawless tribal areas along the border.