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   Killed Hezbollah commander Aqil was wanted for deadly 1983 US embassy,   
   Marine blasts   
   By Reuters   
   September 20, 20249:34 AM PDTUpdated 12 min ago   
      
   Item 1 of 2 An undated photograph of Ibrahim Aqil, who serves on   
   Hezbollah's top military body as a senior commander according to two   
   security sources in Lebanon and the Israeli Army Radio, appears on a   
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   [1/2]An undated photograph of Ibrahim Aqil, who serves on Hezbollah's   
   top military body as a senior commander according to two security   
   sources in Lebanon and the Israeli Army Radio, appears on a wanted   
   poster circulated by the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security   
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   BEIRUT, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah operations   
   commander killed in an Israeli strike on Friday, had a $7 million bounty   
   on his head for two 1983 Beirut truck bombings that killed more than 300   
   people at the American embassy and a U.S. Marines barracks.   
   Two security sources in Lebanon confirmed the veteran fighter was killed   
   in an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs during a meeting of the   
   elite Radwan unit of the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group.   
   Aqil, who has also used the aliases Tahsin and Abdelqader, was the   
   second member of Hezbollah's top military body, the Jihad Council, to be   
   killed in two months after an Israeli strike in the same area targeted   
   Fuad Shukr in July.   
   Israel escalated its attacks on the group this week after months of   
   border fighting triggered by the conflict in Gaza that began on Oct. 7   
   with a deadly raid and hostage-taking in Israel by Hezbollah's   
   Palestinian ally Hamas.   
   Like Shukr, Aqil is a veteran of Hezbollah, which was founded by Iran's   
   Revolutionary Guards in the early 1980s to battle Israeli forces that   
   had invaded and occupied Lebanon.   
   Born in a village in Lebanon's Beqaa valley sometime around 1960, Aqil   
   had joined the other big Lebanese Shi'ite political movement, Amal,   
   before switching to Hezbollah as a founding member, according to a   
   security source.   
   The United States accuses him of a role in the Beirut truck bombings at   
   the American embassy in April 1983, which killed 63 people, and a U.S.   
   Marine barracks six months later that killed 241 people.   
   It further accused him of directing the abduction of American and German   
   hostages in Lebanon and listed him as a Specially Designated Global   
   Terrorist in 2019, putting the $7 million bounty on his head.   
   Referring to the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks and other attacks   
   on Western interests in Lebanon in the 1980s, Hezbollah leader Sayyed   
   Hassan Nasrallah said in a 2022 interview with an Arabic broadcaster   
   that they were carried out by small groups not linked to Hezbollah.   
   Aqil's cohort of founding Hezbollah operatives helped turn the group   
   from a shadowy militia into Lebanon's most powerful military and   
   political organisation, pushing Israel from its occupation of the south   
   in 2000 and fighting it again in 2006.   
   When Shukr was killed in July, it was seen as the heaviest blow to its   
   command structure since the 2008 assassination of Imad Mughniyeh,   
   remembered by Hezbollah as a legendary commander but by Israel and the   
   United States as a terrorist.   
   Aqil, whose bounty was set by the United States at an even higher value   
   than that of Shukr's, may prove a similar blow.   
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   Reporting by Maya Gebeily and Tom Perry; Writing by Angus McDowall;   
   Editing by Howard Goller   
      
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