Asim Abdulrahman is an Egyptian
Islamist militant. The son of
Omar Abdur Rahman, he has been described as "among the closest" of
Osama bin Laden
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's followers in the days following the
September 11th attacks
The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into ...
in 2001.
Under the
kunya ''Abu Asim'', Abdulrahman was believed to have led an Egyptian militant group that allied itself with the
World Islamic Front as of 1998.
In early November 2001, the
Taliban
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government announced they were bestowing Afghan citizenship on him, as well as bin Laden,
Ayman al-Zawahiri,
Saif al-Adel and
Mohammed Atef.
['']The Hindu
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''l, , November 9, 2001
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