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Nobody believes that Ghazi Kenaan committed suicide, or as Damascus Attorney
General Mohammad al-Louji called
it "Suicide 100 percent". So who murdered him, and why? The Zionists
and their fellow travelers claim it was because he knew too much about the assassination
of Rafik Hariri, and how much the Syrian government is implicated in it, but
it seems very odd to leave his removal for having that kind of information to
so late a time. The anti-Zionists claim that the Mossad did him in because he
knew too much about American/Israeli participation in the assassination of Hariri,
but that is even less likely as he undoubtedly would have revealed such involvement
by now. Here's a good theory from Joshua Landis
(see also here):
"Was Ghazi Kanaan setting himself up to be Bashar's alternative? Could
he have been the Alawite 'Musharrif' that some American's and Volker
Perthes suggested would take power from the House of Asad and bring Syria
back into America's and the West's good graces. I have heard from several
people that 'high ranking Syrians' have been complaining to people at the
National Security Council and elsewhere that they are very distressed by the
mistakes Bashar al-Asad has made and the terrible state of US-Syrian relations.
Could Ghazi have been setting himself up as the alternative to Bashar? Could
the Syrian government believe he might have been? We don't know, but here
goes the possible speculation. He is known to have had good relations with
Washington, when he held the Lebanon portfolio. He visited DC. Two of his
four sons went to George Washington University in DC."
and (my emphasis):
"Kanaan was the most senior Alawi official left in government of the
Hafiz's generation. He had served as an intelligence chief and minister of
interior giving him influence over and knowledge of all branches of the security
forces - intelligence and police. If Washington were to turn to anyone
to carry out a coup against Bashar, it would have to place Ghazi Kanaan on
the top of its list.
Could Kanaan have been assassinated in order to prevent him from challenging
Bashar? We may never know, but it is possible.
Bashar al-Asad has been clamping down on all possible rivals. Civil society
has been all but silenced since the June Baath Party conference. The Atasi forum
shut down. Evidently Anwar al-Bunni, Damascus' leading civil rights lawyer and
advocate is presently in hiding so he would be arrested. All emerging political
movements have been broken up during the past several months. The Kurds are
under intense pressure as are all Islamic organizations. Bashar's strongest
suit is that there is not alternative to his rule. Washington must either accept
him as president or tempt the fates that Syria will collapse into some form
of social chaos. Now that Ghazi Kanaan is no longer alive, it is hard to imagine
another Alawi in the government who would have the authority, knowledge, or
standing to pull off a coup."
Did the neocons have Kanaan lined up as Syria's Chalabi, a friend ready to be
Washington's stooge in Damascus after an American-engineered coup? Did Bashar
find out about it time to take the only logical step to preserve his regime?
