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Ibrahim Aqil

Near East (North Africa and the Middle East)

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Rewards for Justice is offering a reward of up to $7 million for information on Hizballah key leader Ibrahim Aqil.

Ibrahim Aqil, also known as Tahsin, serves on Hizballah’s highest military body, the Jihad Council.

During the 1980s, Aqil was a principal member of Islamic Jihad Organization—Hizballah’s terrorist cell—that claimed the bombings of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in April 1983, which killed 63 people, and the U.S. Marine barracks in October 1983, which killed 241 U.S. personnel.

In the 1980s, Aqil directed the taking of American and German hostages in Lebanon and held them there.

On July 21, 2015, the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated Aqil pursuant to Executive Order 13582 for acting for or on behalf of Hizballah. Subsequently, on September 10, 2019, the U.S. Department of State designated Aqil as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist pursuant to Executive Order 13224, as amended.

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Associated Location(s):

Lebanon

Known Locales:

Lebanon;Syria

Date of Birth:

December 24, 1962;January 1, 1962;March 20, 1961;1958

Place of Birth:

Bidnayil, Lebanon;Younine, Lebanon

Nationality:

Lebanon

Sex:

Male

Aliases/Alternative Name Spellings:

Ibrahim Mohamed Akil;Ibrahim Mohamed Akiel;Ibrahim ‘Aqil;Abd al-Qadr ‘Aqil;Ghosn Ali Abdel Mehdi;‘Abd-al-Qadir;Tahsin

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