Is this the bluetooth antennae?

I took the screen off of my 27" imac to try to zero in onwhat was making an annoying chirping sound inside of it. So I turn the computer on with the screen slightly lifted, see a spark and the power cut out, turns out the thing circled in the picture fell out of place and shorted out on the led driver board. I put everything back together and it starts perfectly except my bluetooth keyboard and mouse wont connect. Was the item that got burnt the bluetooth antennae?
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The Bluetooth antenna is secured to the case by a couple of screws, so it's unlikely that it fell off and cause the short. Most likely it was instead one of the cables, perhaps the antenna cable, that was pulled loose and is either just disconnected or caused a spark and damaged components. This might be of help:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-iMac-Intel-27-Inch-Bluetooth-Board /1638/4
Regards.
Message was edited by: Dave Sawyer

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