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09-26-04, 08:10 AM
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - An official from the Palestinian militant group Hamas was killed on Sunday when a bomb exploded in his car in Damascus, Hamas spokesmen and witnesses said.
Izz el-Deen al-Sheikh Khalil died when an explosive charge placed under the driver's seat ripped through his SUV car in the Az-Zahera neighborhood of the Syrian capital shortly after 11:30 a.m.
A spokesman for the militant Palestinian group in Gaza said the killing was "a cowardly crime by the Zionist Mossad," Israel's intelligence agency.
Israeli officials declined comment on possible Israeli involvement. "Some people lead dangerous lives," one of the Israeli officials said.
The bomb appeared to have been hidden under the driver's seat of Khalil's car and went off shortly after he started the engine, witnesses said. Blood was splattered on the back seat.
The blast shattered some windows in the surrounding high-rise buildings and a nearby car was also damaged in the blast.
Israeli security officials had said the military would answer twin bus bombings that killed 16 people in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Aug. 31 with a renewed assassination campaign against Hamas leaders in the Palestinian territories and abroad.
Israeli army chief Moshe Yaalon said earlier this month Israel would "deal with ... those who support terrorism," including those in "terror command posts in Damascus." Palestinian sources said Khalil, 42, was believed to be in charge of Hamas' military wing outside the Palestinian territories. Osama Hamdan, Hamas' representative in Lebanon, said Khalil was an official of the group and not one of its more senior leaders. He said Khalil had been exiled by Israel to Lebanon 12 years ago.
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - An official from the Palestinian militant group Hamas was killed on Sunday when a bomb exploded in his car in Damascus, Hamas spokesmen and witnesses said.
Izz el-Deen al-Sheikh Khalil died when an explosive charge placed under the driver's seat ripped through his SUV car in the Az-Zahera neighborhood of the Syrian capital shortly after 11:30 a.m.
A spokesman for the militant Palestinian group in Gaza said the killing was "a cowardly crime by the Zionist Mossad," Israel's intelligence agency.
Israeli officials declined comment on possible Israeli involvement. "Some people lead dangerous lives," one of the Israeli officials said.
The bomb appeared to have been hidden under the driver's seat of Khalil's car and went off shortly after he started the engine, witnesses said. Blood was splattered on the back seat.
The blast shattered some windows in the surrounding high-rise buildings and a nearby car was also damaged in the blast.
Israeli security officials had said the military would answer twin bus bombings that killed 16 people in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Aug. 31 with a renewed assassination campaign against Hamas leaders in the Palestinian territories and abroad.
Israeli army chief Moshe Yaalon said earlier this month Israel would "deal with ... those who support terrorism," including those in "terror command posts in Damascus." Palestinian sources said Khalil, 42, was believed to be in charge of Hamas' military wing outside the Palestinian territories. Osama Hamdan, Hamas' representative in Lebanon, said Khalil was an official of the group and not one of its more senior leaders. He said Khalil had been exiled by Israel to Lebanon 12 years ago.
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