11 Facts About Aql Hashem

Aql Hashem was a Lebanese military officer and Colonel in the South Lebanon Army and served under Major Saad Haddad and later Lieutenant General Antoine Lahad.

Aql Hashem was killed in a remote-controlled bomb attack by Hezbollah in his farm in January 2000.

Aql Hashem's death was widely interpreted as the beginning of the end of the Israel-backed SLA.

Aql Hashem was a Maronite Christian born in 1952 at the small village of Debel in Southern Lebanon, close to the Israeli border.

Two years later Aql Hashem was promoted to Colonel and assumed command of the western sector of the security zone.

Aql Hashem was head of the SLA's Security Service, since he spoke fluent Hebrew and had excellent relations with the Israelis.

Aql Hashem was sentenced to death in absentia for treason by a Lebanese military court.

Aql Hashem was widely considered a traitor in Lebanon because of his collaboration with Israel.

Aql Hashem was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the SLA and was set to replace Lahad as commander, who was going to retire.

Aql Hashem had avoided many previous assassination attempts by Hezbollah fighters and was generally considered as "untouchable".

Aql Hashem's family fled to Israel, but his wife and his two children later returned to Lebanon in 2013.