Terror organization:: Hezbollah;

Status:: Political advisor to Hezbollah’s Secretary General, member of the Shura council and the Jihad council.

Role:: One of Hezbollah’s senior leaders and among its founders. Served as one of Hezbollah’s main leaders in the Beqaa Valley and was one of the establishers of Hezbollah’s security apparatus. He was involved in the 2008 assassination of Lebanese Internal Security Forces, Captain Wissam Eid. At the time of his murder, Eid was investigating the 2005 assassination of Rafic Hariri. Al-Khalil has also served as part of Hezbollah’s National Central Security Apparatus, acting as the main liaison between the movement’s security and intelligence branches, and between Hezbollah and Iranian intelligence, the VEVAK.
For a time during 1990s, he also shared responsibility with Hezbollah’s late military commander Imad Mughniyeh for the group’s “special operations” in Europe.

Location:: Lebanon

Born: 1955;

Place of Birth: Burj Al Barajinah, Beirut, Lebanon;

Gender: Male;

Address: Lebanon;

Known also as: Hossein Khalil; Husain Khalil; Hussein Khalil.

Activities:

Al-Khalil was designated for being Hasan Nasrallah’s political advisor (for acting on behalf of Hizballah).

Previously, he was one of several senior Hizballah commanders who shared responsibility for the group’s special operations in Europe.