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CIA Report
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 Posted - 10/12/2005 : 10:06:15 AM
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Damascus - 10/12/2005
Syria's Interior Minister, who ran Lebanon as security chief until 2003, committed suicide on Wednesday, days before the expected release of a U.N. report into the assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri, Syria's official news agency SANA reported. He was 63.
"Interior Minister Brig. Gen. Ghazi Kanaan committed suicide in his office before noon," the Syrian Arab News Agency reported. "Authorities are carrying out the necessary investigation into the incident." SANA did not reveal whether Kanaan shot himself dead or took a lethal poison pill.
The method by which Kanaan's life ended is reminiscent of that by which many Nazi officers who opposed Hitler were terminated in WWII. It remains to be determined whether he voluntarily committed suicide or whether he was counseled by Assad to do so.
Kanaan was reportedly questioned by a UN investigator last month over the murder of ex-Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri.
For many years Kanaan was Syria's powerful intelligence chief in Lebanon, which was dominated by Syria until its military withdrawal earlier this year. Between the 1980s and his departure, Kanaan was Syria's top official in Beirut, whom Lebanese leaders had to report to directly on political and security issues.
He returned to Damascus in 2002 as political intelligence chief and joined the cabinet in 2004. |
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ezdean
Lebanon
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Posted - 10/12/2005 : 10:15:34 AM
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Great news.
Although I would have wished for him to be captured with his master in a hole in the ground, like Saddam was captured.
Inshallah killon bikoono bi le7'o, min el-Assad we nazel, bi jah hashshaher el-fadil. |
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Murielle
France
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Posted - 10/12/2005 : 10:23:48 AM
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indeed.
the Syrian nazi regime that dominated Lebanon for 30 years has finally begun to crumble. its officers are falling one at a time. today Ghazi Kanaan, tomorrow hopefully Bashar himself.
all of them are murderers, criminals. not just because of what they did to Hariri, but because of 30 years of ugly occupation during which they tortured us and destroyed our property and killed our brothers and sisters.
Ezdean, I join you in prayer for the demise of the Syrian regime. |
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Truth Squad
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Posted - 10/12/2005 : 10:31:26 AM
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Regardless of how or who killed Ghazi Kanaan, I would have preferred for him to stand trial for all the crimes committed in Lebanon by the Syrian regime and his cronies. If found guilty, I would have preferred to see his neck at the end of a rope.
But as we always knew, the Syrian regime is too "chicken" to face the Truth and face the world. An officer of a “coward” regime, Kanaan died a cowardly death.
He is a true example of the reality of the Assad regime, not just Bashar's, but his father too. They were all “cowards” and it is time for them to go. |
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The Whip
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Posted - 10/12/2005 : 10:42:52 AM
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This is the greatest gift one can give to the martyrs of October 13th, when Syria bombed Lebanon finalized its take over of Lebanon with the worst bloody military attack (air and land).
The prayers of the mothers in SOLIDE, the prayers of all the Lebanese brutalized by the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, have been answered. The "death master" is now himself dead like a coward.
may the rest of the Syrian regime follow suit. |
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Talal
Syria
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Posted - 10/12/2005 : 10:48:28 AM
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you bunch of zionists. you celebrate the death of a national hero.
we mourn him and we weep. what did he do to you that you did not do to yourself. your leaders are corrupt. all he did he managed their corruption. "La yusle7o Allah bi kawm, ma lam yousle7ou houm bi anfousihem". shame on you. |
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PaxLibano
France
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Posted - 10/12/2005 : 11:00:35 AM
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I share the feelings of my Lebanese friends and join them in announcing the "end of an Era".
The end of the "Baath era" in Syria and hopefully in Lebanon.
The Assad regime has finally begun to crumble and we all look forward to hear the sound of its fall.
Will it fall like a tree in a forest or will it be a great fall?
I hope its fall will be as great as the atrocities this regime committed in Lebanon and in Syria.
I look forward to the day when the Assad regime exists only in history books and as we read about it, the paragraph ends by: "wa kana soukoutouhou 3aziman".
Watch my friends a moment in history as the last bastion of dictatorship in Syria and the last relic of the cold war in the Middle East crumbles. I can see the headlines of the near future: THE END OF THE ASSAD REGIME". |
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Akhwat Shanai
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Posted - 10/12/2005 : 11:47:51 AM
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Are you sure that the real Ghazi Kanaan is dead ????
The security in Syria may have captured an innocent guy, beaten him to death and told him : "Say you are Ghazi Kanan" so he get condemned in the murder of Hariri.
After being beaten for hours, the guy really thought that he is Ghazi Kanaan, so he committed suicide.He could not accept this shame.
Since the guy admitted that he is Ghazi Kanaan, syrian believed that he was GK.
After this they annouced that GK committed suicide. |
Edited by - Akhwat Shanai on 10/12/2005 11:52:47 AM |
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The Whip
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Posted - 10/12/2005 : 1:12:24 PM
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Originally posted by Akhwat Shanai
Are you sure that the real Ghazi Kanaan is dead ???? The security in Syria may have captured an innocent guy, beaten him to death and told him : "Say you are Ghazi Kanan" so he get condemned in the murder of Hariri. After being beaten for hours, the guy really thought that he is Ghazi Kanaan, so he committed suicide.He could not accept this shame. Since the guy admitted that he is Ghazi Kanaan, syrian believed that he was GK. After this they annouced that GK committed suicide.
You make a good point Akhwat. I guess you know the Syrians well. We have to wait now to see if his family recognizes him as GK. But then they too may have been led to believe that this is GK. Ah what a twist! Unless he had only one testicle or 3 tits, then his wife may be able to recognize him.quote:
Originally posted by Talal
you bunch of zionists. you celebrate the death of a national hero.
Talal, we are a bunch of Lebanese Nationalists. Please don't tell me he was a national hero for you, because then I will have to pray that you join him soon. He was a dirty and coward terrorist and a corrupt SOB. So is the whole Assad regime. So Talal I would invite you to celebrate with us, rather than be sad and I promise we'll join you in the celebrations over Bashar Assad's grave after the brave Syrian people overthrow him and topple his regime.
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Truth Squad
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Posted - 10/12/2005 : 1:21:58 PM
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The 63-year-old Baathist major general died in a Damascus hospital of a gunshot wound to the head, according to the interior ministry and other government ministers. The head of the intensive care unit at the hospital told CNN's Brent Sadler a small-caliber bullet went through the roof of Kanaan's mouth and exited through the back of his head.
Hours before his death, Kanaan had been interviewed by a Lebanese radio station after he called in to refute allegations that aired on Lebanese television Tuesday night that he had accepted bribes and payoffs while in the Lebanon post. Kanaan told the anchorwoman at the Christian radio station he had chosen to speak with her because he trusted her and wanted to clear his name. He also refuted allegations -- which again surfaced on an independent Lebanese television station Tuesday night -- that he was involved in the assassination of Hariri. Kanaan said he had nothing but good intentions for Lebanon and nothing against Hariri.
And as if he already knew his fate, the interior minister told the anchorwoman that his remarks to the radio station would possibly be his last statement. Less than two hours later, he was dead. |
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Bullocks
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Posted - 10/13/2005 : 02:26:10 AM
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I think they let him know in advance that he was going to kill himself.
I read his final statement, I don't see the point in him defending himself against corruption when he was responsible for a lot more than that. |
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Jean
Lebanon
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Posted - 10/13/2005 : 3:09:49 PM
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Originally posted by Bullocks
I think they let him know in advance that he was going to kill himself.
I read his final statement, I don't see the point in him defending himself against corruption when he was responsible for a lot more than that.
Oh I totally agree with you.
The only thing I am not sure of is whether he was indeed the one shot or someone else. The real Kanaan may have gone into hiding to escape the investigations and a poor little look-alike may have been substituted for him.
I liked Don Quixote's analysis of his death.
You can read it at: http://www.democracyinlebanon.org/Documents/CDL-Exclusives/DQ051012.pdf |
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Eyad
Lebanon
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Posted - 10/13/2005 : 3:32:30 PM
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Is there a way to know what really happened to him.
Did they kill him? Did they make him kill himself? or did they hide him somewhere to sabotage the investigations?
I read Don Quixote's analysis. It is interesting, it covers a lot of grounds and offers a lot of reasons for his death but how to know which one is the truth. |
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Truth Squad
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Posted - 10/14/2005 : 12:25:30 AM
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Originally posted by Eyad
Is there a way to know what really happened to him.
Did they kill him? Did they make him kill himself? or did they hide him somewhere to sabotage the investigations?
I read Don Quixote's analysis. It is interesting, it covers a lot of grounds and offers a lot of reasons for his death but how to know which one is the truth.
To answer your question: Yes there is a way of knowing exactly what happened to him.
He was a material witness in an assassination investigation led by an international body, the UN. If he was made to disappear (suicide, murder or hiding), this amounts to tempering with a witness by the Assad regime.
It is within Detliv Mehlis right to investigate what happened to Ghazi Kanaan if he wishes to and if he considers him material to his investigations into the Hariri assassination. Should the Syrian regime interfere with that, then the regime will stand accountable to obstructing justice.
That maneuver, however, requires that Mehlis has green light, politically, to investigate the Syrian regime.
Kanaan's disappearance may be a prelude to something similar to the UN investigations into Iraq's WMDs. |
Edited by - Truth Squad on 10/14/2005 12:26:19 AM |
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CIA Report
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Posted - 10/14/2005 : 02:54:18 AM
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Beirut - October 13, 2005
According to the news bulletin of the NTV, which allegedly prompted Ghazi Kanaan to commit suicide, when being questioned by investigators into former Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination, Kanaan brought forward a box full of copies of official documents and bank deeds.
NTV reported that the Syrian official then confessed to involvement in bribery and corruption between the Syrian and Lebanese authorities administering Lebanon before the Syrian withdrawal. Many of the checks were signed by Rafiq Hariri himself. The documents included photocopies of 2 checks made one for Ghazi Kanaan and another for Jamil Essayyed (former head of the Sureté Générale in Lebanon), each check for 10 Million dollars. These were in exchange for passing the 2000 parliementary election law which became known in 2005 as Ghazi Kanaan's law.
The bulletin further said Kanaan had presented the investigators with further proof of Hariri's involvement in the corruption system before asking: "If we were benefiting so much from our partner, why would we kill him?"
Kanaan also admitted to involvement in the Al-Madina scandal file, the bulletin added.
According to NTV, the entire interrogation session at the Monte Rosa resort in Damascus had been recorded by the Syrian authorities.
Commenting on his years as chief of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon prior to 2003, Kanaan described his acts as the direct result of orders he had received from the Syrian authorities. |
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Bullocks
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Posted - 10/17/2005 : 09:27:11 AM
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Originally posted by Jean
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Originally posted by Bullocks
I think they let him know in advance that he was going to kill himself.
I read his final statement, I don't see the point in him defending himself against corruption when he was responsible for a lot more than that.
Oh I totally agree with you.
The only thing I am not sure of is whether he was indeed the one shot or someone else. The real Kanaan may have gone into hiding to escape the investigations and a poor little look-alike may have been substituted for him.
I liked Don Quixote's analysis of his death.
You can read it at: http://www.democracyinlebanon.org/Documents/CDL-Exclusives/DQ051012.pdf
you been watching too much of Jack Bauer on "24" 
but it is plausible what you're saying |
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