And according toHezbollah“Aqil was born in the Bekaa in 1962, and he is, according to the movement, “one of the leaders of the heroic operations during the confrontation.” For the Israeli invasion of Beirut Early eighties.
– Aqil assumed responsibility for central training in Hezbollah in the early nineties, and he also played a fundamental role “in developing human capabilities in the movement’s formations.”
– Aqil became the Chief of Staff in the mid-nineties, and has been responsible for supervising the Jabal Amel Operations Unit since 1997, directly leading many operations.
– He established the Operations Department, and starting in 2008 he held the position of Assistant Secretary-General of the Party for Operations Affairs, and was appointed a member of the Jihad Council.
Hezbollah described him as one of the “leaders of confronting the Israeli aggression on… Lebanon 2006.
– Supervised the establishment, development and leadership of the force. Al-Radwan Until the date of his death.
He was one of the leaders who planned and managed operations on the eastern borders of Lebanon, in Qusayr and Qalamoun, and the rest of the Syrian regions.
– He planned and supervised the leadership of the military operations of the Radwan Force on the Lebanese front since the beginning of the war between Israel And the movementagitationOn October 7th.
Aqil is considered the second military man in Hezbollah after Fouad Shukr, who was killed in an Israeli raid on July 30.
And he is pursuing Lebanese judiciary Aqeel was linked to the assassination attempt on former Prime Minister Shafiq al-Wazzan.
Aqil was also wanted by FBI The American “FBI”, knowing that he is accused of bombing the American embassy in Beirut, an attack that led to the death of 63 people, and the American Marine barracks center in the Lebanese capital, which led to the death of 241 Americans, in 1983.
According to the US State Department website, Akil also managed the kidnapping of American and German hostages in Lebanon in the 1980s and their detention there.
Washington classifies Aqeel as a “global terrorist”, and has monitored reward Up to $7 million for information leading to his capture.