Abderrahmane is reported to have been inspired to travel to Afghanistan in the late 1990s in a mosque in Grimhøjvej, founded by an Algerian refugee named Athme Meheri.[4] Danish journalist Morten Skjoldager described Meheri's mosque as a "radical mosque" in his book "Truslen indefra" ("the threat from within"). Abderrahmane was captured, in December 2001, in Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border.[5] He was transferred to Guantanamo on February 10, 2002.[6][7] He was repatriated to Denmark on 24 February 2004.[8]