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Who was Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah commander with a $7m bounty on his head?

In April 1983, a truck loaded with 2,000lb of explosives sped through the gate to the US embassy in Beirut and struck the building.

The blast turned the embassy into rubble and killed 63 people, including 52 American and Lebanese employees.

One of the men behind it was Ibrahim Aqil, a senior Hezbollah commander with a $7m US bounty on his head, who was allegedly killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut on Friday.

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