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Syria denies widening investigation into militant's death

Feb 16, 2008, 13:41 GMT

Damascus - Syria denied Saturday it was setting up a commission with Iran and Hezbollah to investigate the killing of Imad Mugniyah, a senior member of the Lebanese fundamentalist group who died in a car bombing in Damascus, media reports said. Syria will conduct the investigation alone, sources told the Official Syrian News Agency SANA. On Friday, Iran's IRNA news agency quoted the country's deputy foreign minister, Ali Attar, as saying the formation of a joint committee was agreed during talks in the Syrian capital. Mugniyah, who died on Tuesday, was a senior leader in Iran-backed Hezbollah's militant wing. He was believed to have been behind numerous hijackings, bombings and abductions in the 1980s and early 1990s. He allegedly played a role in the 1983 bombing of US Marine and French peacekeeping troops in Beirut that left more than 350 dead. Hezbollah and Iran blamed Israel for the death of Mugniyah. Israel denied any involvement.

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