| Importance | High |
 | Means of Death | Hostile Fire from British forces2 |
| Date of Death | Sept. 25, 20062 |
| Location of Death | Basra, Iraq2 |
| Affiliation | Al-Qaeda |
| Role | Terrorist Operations Planner |
 | Supervisor | Abu Zubaydah |
| Nationality | Kuwaiti |
| Nationality | Iraqi |
| Alias(es) | Mahmud bin Ahmad Assegaf, Mahmoud Ahmad Muhammed |
| Alternate Spelling(s) | Umar Faruq, Omar al Farouk, Omar al Faruq al Kuwait, Umar al Farouq al Kuwaiti, Omar Farooq |
| Age at Death | 35 |
| Date of Birth | May 24, 1971 |
| Place of Birth | Kuwait |
| Gender | Male |
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| Reliable | After 9-11, Omar al-Farouq was considered al-Qaeda's point man in southeast Asia. Detained by Indonesian authorities on June 5, 2002, on immigration violations. He escaped from a U.S. detention facility in Bagram, Afghanistan, on July 11, 2005.
He made his way to Basra, Iraq. On Sept. 25, 2006, 250 soldiers with the United Kingdom's Princess of Wales Royal Regiment located and killed him during a firefight at his residence in a pre-dawn raid.1,2 |
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| 1 Caldwell, Alicia. 'Top bin Laden operative escaped U.S. custody, prosecutor says.' The Associated Press: Nov. 2, 2005. |
| 2 E-mail statement from U.S. Central Command. |
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