BEIRUT: Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah operations commander killed in an Israeli strike on Friday, had a $7 million bounty on his head for 2 1983 Beirut truck bombings that killed greater than 300 folks on the American embassy and a US Marines barracks.
Believed to be in his 60s, Aqil, who has additionally used the aliases Tahsin and Abdelqader, was the second member of Hezbollah’s prime army physique, Jihad Council, to be killed in two months after an Israeli strike in the identical space focused Fuad Shukr in July.Over the previous 20 years, Israel has slowly killed lots of the Jihad Council‘s members, who’re a few of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s prime advisers.
Like Shukr, Aqil is a veteran of Hezbollah, which was based by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards within the early Nineteen Eighties to battle Israeli forces that had invaded and occupied Lebanon.
The US accuses him of a job within the Beirut truck bombings on the American embassy in April 1983, which killed 63 folks, and a US Marine barracks six months later that killed 241 folks. It additional accused him of directing the kidnapping of American and German hostages in Lebanon and listed him as a specifically designated world terrorist in 2019.
When Shukr was killed, it was seen because the heaviest blow to its command construction because the 2008 killing of Imad Mughniyeh, remembered by Hezbollah as a legendary commander. Aqil, whose bounty was set by the US at an excellent larger worth than that of Shukr’s, could show an analogous blow.
Believed to be in his 60s, Aqil, who has additionally used the aliases Tahsin and Abdelqader, was the second member of Hezbollah’s prime army physique, Jihad Council, to be killed in two months after an Israeli strike in the identical space focused Fuad Shukr in July.Over the previous 20 years, Israel has slowly killed lots of the Jihad Council‘s members, who’re a few of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s prime advisers.
Like Shukr, Aqil is a veteran of Hezbollah, which was based by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards within the early Nineteen Eighties to battle Israeli forces that had invaded and occupied Lebanon.
The US accuses him of a job within the Beirut truck bombings on the American embassy in April 1983, which killed 63 folks, and a US Marine barracks six months later that killed 241 folks. It additional accused him of directing the kidnapping of American and German hostages in Lebanon and listed him as a specifically designated world terrorist in 2019.
When Shukr was killed, it was seen because the heaviest blow to its command construction because the 2008 killing of Imad Mughniyeh, remembered by Hezbollah as a legendary commander. Aqil, whose bounty was set by the US at an excellent larger worth than that of Shukr’s, could show an analogous blow.
