Suicide By Multiple Gunshots?
Syrian Interior Minister Commits Suicide:
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.
Looks like we could have another Abu Nidal-like "suicide" on our hands.
A prominent Lebanese legislator and journalist, Gebran Tueni, cast doubt on the report.
"It is not known for sure if he committed suicide, or was made to commit suicide," Tueni told Al-Arabiya from Paris. "In Syria, there are some people who want to hide the facts, and don't want everything about the Syrian period in Lebanon to be known."
Syrian opposition figure Ali Sadr el-Din Bayanouni, the London-exiled leader of the banned Syrian Muslim Brotherhood group, told Al-Jazeera that Kenaan's statement "indicated that he felt in danger, and this supports rumors that there has been a deal in which the Syrian regime might sacrifice some of its heads for saving the regime."
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