Omar al-Faruq
Omar al-Faruq | |
---|---|
Born | 1969[1] Iraq |
Arrested | Bogor, Indonesia Indonesian authorities |
Died | 25 September 2006(2006-09-25) (aged 36–37) Basra, Iraq |
Citizenship | Iraqi |
Detained at | Bagram Theater Internment Facility |
Other name(s) | Faruq al-Iraqi |
Status | escaped custody, deceased |
Omar al-Faruq (Arabic: عمر الفاروق; 1969 – 25 September 2006), also spelled or al-Farouq or al-Farooq, born Mahmoud Ahmad Mohammed Ahmad, was an Islamic militant with high-profile connections with Al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiyah in Southeast Asia particularly the Philippines and Indonesia.
Biography
Al-Faruq was born in Iraq. It is believed he joined al-Qaeda in the early 1990s and trained in Afghanistan, where he became one of Osama bin Laden's key lieutenants. U.S. authorities believed al-Faruq was planning bomb attacks on American embassies when he was captured in Bogor, Indonesia in 2002 by Indonesian security agents who handed him over to the United States.[2][3] Al-Faruq's capture was based on information derived from the capture of Abu Zubaydah.[4] Al-Faruq in turn revealed information about a plot to bomb embassies in Southeast Asia, giving rise to the "yellow alert" of 10 September 2002.[3]
He was sent to Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan. In July 2005, al-Faruq escaped from Bagram prison with three other al-Qaeda suspects. The U.S. authorities did not acknowledge his escape until November, when they were unable to produce him as a witness called by defense attorney Michael Waddington, in the trial of a U.S. sergeant, Alan Driver, accused of abuse at the prison.
On 25 September 2006, Al-Faruq was killed by British troops operating in the Iraqi city of Basra. The operations took place in pre-dawn hours and involved more than 200 soldiers. There were no British casualties.[5]
References
- ^ Tavernise, Sabrina (26 September 2006). "Qaeda Operative is Killed in Iraq". The New York Times.
- ^ "Profile: Omar al-Farouq". BBC. 26 September 2006. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
- ^ a b "Al-Qaida: Dead or captured". NBC News. 23 April 2004. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
- ^ Confessions of an al-Qaeda Terrorist Archived 23 December 2005 at the Wayback Machine, Time, 15 September 2002
- ^ Top al Qaeda figure killed in Iraq Archived 11 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Reuters, 25 September 2006
- v
- t
- e
- Saif al-Adel
- Abd al-Rahman al-Maghribi
- Ahmad Umar
- Iyad Ag Ghaly
- Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil
- Abu Ubaidah Youssef al-Annabi
- Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa al-Bakri
- Ibrahim al-Banna
- Ibrahim al Qosi
- Abu Walid al-Masri
- Mohammed Showqi Al-Islambouli
- Abdukadir Mohamed Abdukadir
- Fuad Qalaf
- Jehad Mostafa
- Abu Humam al-Shami
- Sami al-Oraydi
leadership
of attacks
- 1998 United States embassy bombings
- 2000 USS Cole bombing
- 2001 September 11 attacks
- 2002 Bali bombings
- 2004 Madrid train bombings
- 2005 London bombings
- 2007 Algiers bombings
- 2008 Islamabad Danish embassy bombing
- 2008 Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing
- 2013 In Amenas hostage crisis
- 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack
- 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting
- 2015 Garissa University College attack
- 2015 Bamako hotel attack
- 2016 Ouagadougou attacks
- 2016 Grand-Bassam shootings
- 2016 Bamako attack
- 2019 Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting
- Soviet–Afghan War
- Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)
- Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)
- First Chechen War
- Afghan Civil War (1996–2001)
- Second Chechen War
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- Iraq War
- Somali Civil War
- War in North-West Pakistan (drone strikes)
- Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
- Syrian civil war
- Yemeni civil war (2014–present)
- Al-Shabaab (Somalia)
- Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen)
- Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (North Africa)
- Egyptian Islamic Jihad (Egypt)
- Al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent (Indian subcontinent)
- Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (Mali)
- Hurras al-Din (Syria)