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Saturday July 7, 2012 3:27 AM (EST+7)
Source: Hamas man's Syria death accident not murder


Read more: Kamal Husni Ghanaja, Hamas, assasination, Damascus, Syria, Mossad, Arab revolt, Islamists

GAZA, July 6 (Reuters) - A Hamas member whose charred body was found in his Damascus apartment was not assassinated as first thought but died from inhaling smoke, an official of the Islamist group said on Friday.

The body of Kamal Husni Ghanaja was found on June 27 in a cupboard above the ceiling of his ransacked apartment in the Qudsia neighborhood of Damascus and Hamas launched an investigation into what it had said was a cowardly murder.

But a Hamas official with direct knowledge of the investigation, said on Friday that the group has found that Ghanaja was not assassinated.

An internal investigation indicated brother Ghanaja died because of the smoke coming from a generator he used in his house ... he was not murdered, the Hamas official said.

The Syrian capital for years has served as a base for Hamas's leadership in exile but many of the group's top officials and their families have left during the past 16 months of violence in Syria.

Israel's Mossad intelligence service is widely believed to have been behind the 2010 assassination in Dubai of a top Hamas commander, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Israel refused to confirm or deny its agents killed him.

A Hamas source last week said Ghanaj was a mid-level military official while a Palestinian official said he was in charge of the movement's organizational network in Syria. (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Writing by Maayan Lubell; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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