Syrian Interior Minister "Commits Suicide" After Allegations he Cooperated with UN Assasination Inquiry

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Wednesday, October 12. 2005

Syrian Interior Minister "Commits Suicide" After Allegations he Cooperated with UN Assasination Inquiry

Syrian interior minister commits suicide-agency

Kanaan committed suicide at his office on Wednesday, the official Syrian News Agency SANA said.

Kanaan, who was Syria's top official in Lebanon for two decades until 2002, had been interviewed two weeks earlier by U.N. investigators probing the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri....Hours before the news broke, Kanaan spoke to a Lebanese radio station, denying reports in Lebanese media that he showed the U.N. investigators cheques paid to him by the late Hariri.

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Yes, no doubt he died of five self inflicted gunshot wounds to the head just like Abu Nidal.

#1 David Gerstman (Link) on 2005-10-12 20:29 (Reply)

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