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Push – Pull – Click – Click – Change Ministers that Quick!
Died on Wednesday – Buried on Thursday
October 14, 2005
As I reported in the last BLOG, Syrian Interior Minister Major General Ghazi Kanaan supposedly committed suicide in his office Wednesday.
He was buried the next day on Thursday, which brings to memory all the murder mysteries I have watched on television that had the wife who poisoned her husband anxious to get the body covered by dirt as soon as possible.
He had been questioned some three weeks earlier by UN investigators probing the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
Kanaan supposedly shot himself with his own revolver.
Kenaan was Syria’s top man in Lebanon for 20 years before becoming the Syria Interior Minister. Syria has been very nervous about the UN investigation uncovering complicity in the upper echelons of the Syrian government, perhaps even implicating President Bashar Assad and his relatives.
We will never know if his suicide was voluntary or involuntary, but it did indeed come at a very convenient time for Assad and his rel
atives in high places.
The UN Investigation of the Hariri assassination, when it is released, may, or may not, blame Syria, but I believe Assad, and those in high places, not knowing what would be the case, are involved in the death of Kanaan. I do not believe they could take a chance.
A UN investigation team is so politically motivated in investigating anything, it is impossible to predict with any certainty what they will report. They may, or may not, report Syria as being involved in Hariri’s death. If it does not find much blame attached to Syria, Assad and his many other cronies will scream out “I told you so.” But if it does find they were in some way responsible for the assassination, then there will be a long line of Syrian officials crying out, “we knew nothing, Kenaan did it all by himself.” I am certainly reminded of the Gillette razor commercial of my youth, “Push-Pull-Click-Click – Change blades that quick,” and the famous remark of the Hogan’s Heroes TV series by German Sergeant Schultz’s perpetual statement, “I know nothing.”
President Assad may weather this storm, but I do not think he will last another two years in office.