Syria's Interior Minister has reportedly 'committed suicide', Syrian state controlled media reports today. The story is fishy enough that many mainstream news outlets are making sure to put quotes around "committed suicide".
General Ghazi Kanaan was the former head of Syria's military intelligence in occupied Lebanon. Syrian intelligence agents or their proxies are suspected in the car-bombing assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Kanaan's 'suicide' comes just prior to the official release of a UN report which is said to implicate Syria. Kanaan has long been a leading suspect in the assassination.
The U.S. has also frozen Kanaan's assets because of his role in helping Syria support known terrorist groups.
. We all know what happens to
in Syria.
So, even if this was a 'suicide', it is possible that this was a preventative move on Kanaan's part. It is far better to go quickly at your own hands, then undergo the humiliation of a Baathist show trial the end of which is certain.
The article cites local TV as their source of information. This is raising more than a few eyebrows in Lebanon.
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People around Clinton Killed themselves all the time. A number of them killed themselves by shooting themselves in the back of the head. Whats the big deal
Posted by: Filthy Allah at October 12, 2005 09:13 AM (5ceWd)
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Clintonomics in action.
Posted by: dick at October 12, 2005 11:28 AM (XlQVK)
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Satan occupies your soul and fills you with bloodlust.
Repeat after me, "Satan, in the name of Jesus Christ, leave me".
You will be healed. Claim your salvation.
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at October 12, 2005 12:03 PM (Z8ckK)
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Stalinist tactic - have the wife and kids hostage.
Posted by: -keith in mtn. view at October 12, 2005 12:09 PM (T85lV)
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Wow. Old Clintonian conspiracy theories die hard. Y'all think the Massad had something to do with this one?
Posted by: ms at October 12, 2005 12:12 PM (P2nxY)
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A conspiracy theory is one thing, but hard, verifiable fact is another, and the fact is that the Clintons' friends and associates had a piss poor life expectancy probability. Funny how liberals, fascists, socialists, communists, whatever you want to call them, all seem to leave a trail of bodies in their wake, eh?
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 12, 2005 12:47 PM (0yYS2)
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Er, I for one never bought in to the Klinton conspiracies.
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at October 12, 2005 12:55 PM (JQjhA)
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Sure are a lot of 'suicides' lately. Let's hope Bush doesn't have a shaving accident.
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at October 12, 2005 12:59 PM (Z8ckK)
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Sure are a lot of 'suicides' lately. Let's hope Bush doesn't have a shaving accident.
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at October 12, 2005 12:59 PM (Z8ckK)
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The Clintons are crude amatuers...
That is what makes their supporters so pitiful.
But then... these are the people that though dishonorably discharged John Kerry saluting to a Hollywood special effects enhanced home movie gave him 'credibility' on National Defense.
Posted by: DANEgerus at October 12, 2005 01:25 PM (J8yxJ)
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Syria is run like a mafia family in the Godfather, and this Kanaan fellow committed "suicide" just like Pantangeli committed suicide for betraying the Corleone family.
Posted by: Carlos at October 12, 2005 02:13 PM (8e/V4)
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Carlos
You got it! Business is business. Personally i'm waiting for lil' Kim (and his 3 sons) in NK to choke to death on some Chinese egg rolls or some sweet and sour pork. Business is business and the Chinese are getting real good at it.
Posted by: hondo at October 12, 2005 04:56 PM (/jH/1)
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Is that Greg posting as Menenze's Ghost again? LTNS.
Posted by: dave at October 12, 2005 08:30 PM (CcXvt)
Posted by: Cindy at October 12, 2005 09:42 PM (C73Yr)
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What did he do? Shoot himself in the head four times?
Posted by: Oyster at October 13, 2005 06:53 AM (YudAC)
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Oyster, the reports are that he put the gun muzzle in his mouth and pulled the trigger.
I have not heard anything about spray patterns or where the bullet ended up, but most news media does not have a clue about forensic investigations.
Posted by: Phillep at October 13, 2005 10:12 AM (n1LLu)
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As I stated previously, it's funny how the friends and associates of left-wing psychos, uh, I mean socialist-progressive revoultionaries, (it's all for the people), end up dying off at prodigious rates, often by "suicide". Of course, some of them are actual suicides, but when the choice is to eat a bullet or watch your family get fed into an industrial shredder and then join them, most would choose the former.
Now for a tangent. Vince Foster, a millionaire who could have simply retired from public life and gone back to Arkansas any time he wanted, instead supposedly killed himself in a fit of despondency at being "ruined" by the Washington power brokers. How does one "ruin" a millionaire, other than by making him poor? One doesn't, because to most people, as long as they're rich, they can handle pretty much anything. Give me a million dollars and smear me all you like, and it won't bother me a bit, and I suspect about 99.999% of all other people are the same. Conflicting reports of the conditions and manner of his death were never satisfactorily resolved, and the fact remains that he was simply one of a long list of Clinton associates who died under mysterious circumstances, usually of "suicide" or extreme violence, or the occasional vehicluar accident. Normally this kind of death rate is associated with Mafia crime lord types or third-world dictators, but then, we are talking about two communists, (sorry, strike that), Democrats, from Arkansas who associated with known criminals, so it's the worst of both worlds.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 13, 2005 11:46 AM (0yYS2)
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