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Aql Hashem (Arabic: عقل هاشم; 1952 – January 30, 2000), also spelled Akel Hashem, was a Colonel in the South Lebanon Army (SLA) and served under Colonel Saad Haddad and later Lieutenant General Antoine Lahad. He was killed in a remote-controlled bomb attack by Hizbollah in his farm in January 2000. His death was widely interpreted as the beginning of the end of the Israel-backed SLA.