Syria's interior minister, one of several top officials caught up in the U.N. investigation into the slaying of Lebanon's former prime minister, died Wednesday. The country's official news agency said he committed suicide in his office.You'd think the left would understand that if anyone deserves shooting, it's criminal murders, not liberators.
The death — just days before the final U.N. investigation report is due — was a new and startling sign of turmoil in Syria, whose authoritarian regime is girding for the chance that the U.N. report might implicate high-ranking officials in the assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri. He was killed by a bomb in February as his convoy drove through Beirut.
"Interior Minister Brig. Gen. Ghazi Kenaan committed suicide in his office before noon," the Syrian Arab News Agency reported. "Authorities are carrying out the necessary investigation into the incident."
The news agency did not mention the U.N. investigation, which is due to issue its report by Oct. 25.
Hours before he died, Kenaan contacted a Lebanese radio station and gave a statement, concluding with the words: "I believe this is the last statement that I could make." He asked the interviewer to pass his comments to other media.
The interior minister in Syria controls the police, but before he was promoted to this position in 2003, Kenaan was Syria's intelligence chief in Lebanon, presiding over Syria's control of its western neighbor. . .
The big question in Syria is how long President Bashar Assad can last if the probe indicates his government played a part in Hariri's death.
(via reader Ken R.)
4 comments:
It would be a major coup for the USA and civilization in general if the terrorist regime in Syria is the next to fall. The media wouldn't like it though, because Saddam's WMD would probably turn up. BTW, I wonder how many times Kenaan shot himself in the head? It looks like Baby Assad is getting desperate for scapegoats.
And how many shots he fired were to the back of his head? Wonder which bunker is holding his wife and kids - typical Stalinist lesson-plan.
Agreed x 2. I've no doubt the official Syrian investigation will conclude Kenaan died from two or three "self-inflicted" gunshots to the brain.
Reminds me of the Vatican banker, found with hand and legs tied behind his back, who committed suicide by scaling a wall and jumping off a bridge.
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