The AP's reporting:
Syria's interior minister, who ran Lebanon for many years and was one of several top officials caught up in the U.N. probe of the slaying of that nation's former prime minister, died Wednesday. The country's official news agency said he committed suicide in his office.
The death of Brig. Gen. Ghazi Kenaan — 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.
I'll bet most of us are thinking the same thing.
Kenaan's death sure has to be a relief to many highly placed people.
Let's see if we learn anything more in the days ahead.
1 comments:
It also occured to me that Syria got a twofer: it probably confounded Israel.
How often does that happen?
-AC
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