Syrian Interior Minister Suicide?
The Syrian news agency SANA announced earlier today that the Syrian Interior Minister, General Ghazi Kanaan, committed suicide. It was not specified whether he shot himself or took poisonous pills. He was questioned three weeks earlier by the U.N. investigation team on Lebanese Prime Minister – Rafic Hariri - assassination. The final report of the investigation is to be released next week.
Kanaan was the head of the Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon from 1982 to 2002. He was believed to be the first responsible for the security regime in the country during the presence of Syrian Troops. Four pro-Syrian generals were arrested earlier this year, in the process of the U.N. investigation, and many Lebanese people say that the Syrian government is involved, an accusation fiercely rejected by Damascus.
A plausible explanation of the event: Syria plotted and executed the assassination operation against P.M. Rafic Hariri. Feeling they would be uncovered and held responsible by the international community, they decided to liquidate Ghazi Kanaan, or worse he decided to kill himself – not too far from the terrorist act - so that Syria doesn’t have to be involved directly. The whole thing would become a huge scandal inside the Syrian government instead of evolving into an international affair against Syria.
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