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.

US authorities believed Al-Faruq was behind the bomb and terror attacks that targeted embassies and thus, ordered his arrests when he was detected to have been entering Indonesia.

After being captured in Bogor by Indonesian special forces in 2002, he was immediately handed over to the United States.

[4] After his arrests, Al-Faruq later on revealed information about a plot to bomb a series of embassies and diplomatic compounds all across Southeast Asia, giving rise to the "yellow alert" of 10 September 2002.

The U.S. government did not acknowledge his escape until November when it was revealed that the prosecutor cannot produce him as a witness when called by the defense attorney Michael Waddington, in the trial of U.S. military sergeant, Alan Driver who was accused of abuse at the prison.