The son of Omar Abdur Rahman, Asim Abdulrahman was described as "among the closest" of Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...

's followers in the days following the September 11th attacks in 2001.

Under the kunya

Kunya (Arabic)

A kunya is a teknonym, the name of an adult derived from their child, especially their eldest son, in Arabic names.A kunya is expressed by the use of abū or umm in a genitive construction, i.e "father of" or "mother of" as a honorific in place of or alongside given names in the Arab world and the...

 Abu Asim, he was believed to lead an Egyptian militant group that allied itself with the World Islamic Front

World Islamic Front

The World Islamic Front is the organization that issued the World Islamic Front Statement of 23 February 1998, "Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders" , listing the actions of Americans that they claim conflict with "Allah's order", and stating that the Front's "ruling to kill the Americans and their...

 as of 1998.

In early November 2001, the Taliban government announced they were bestowing official Afghan citizenship

Citizenship

Citizenship is the state of being a citizen of a particular social, political, national, or human resource community. Citizenship status, under social contract theory, carries with it both rights and responsibilities...

 on him, as well as Bin Laden, Zawahiri, Saif al-Adl and Mohammed Atef

Mohammed Atef

Mohammed Atef was the alleged military chief of al-Qaida, although his role in the organization was not well known by intelligence agencies for years...

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