http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/634568.htmlForeign Minister Silvan Shalom said Thursday that he hoped the suicide Wednesday of Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan would not make Kanaan a scapegoat for Syrian President Bashar Assad. "The Syrians feel the noose tightening around their necks," Shalom said. "The
Mehlis report is closing in on direct Syrian involvement in Hariri's murder." A UN panel is expected to report soon on its probe of the death of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
Shalom also said the Syrians "apparently have a connection, which they are having difficulty hiding, to Hariri's assassination. As long as Assad continues to support terror, the international community will give his regime no rest."
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Kanaan was recently questioned by the panel working under Mehlis, and Arab pundits say his suicide raises the possibility that the Syrian regime would accuse him of personal involvement in Hariri's killing. The night before Kanaan died, a Lebanese television station reported that he had been questioned by the Mehlis commission, and that he had admitted receiving millions of dollars from Hariri. However, two hours before his death, Kanaan gave a telephone interview to the Voice of Lebanon radio station in which he denied the report.
The Israeli security establishment sees Kanaan's suicide as another serious complication for Syrian President Bashar Assad. Security sources said Thursday that the chain of events that brought about Hariri's assassination jeopardizes the Assad regime. Israel does not discount the possibility that Kanaan took his life after being pressured to do so as a scapegoat, deflecting any blame from Assad.
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Was Kanaan part of the Cheney regime change in Syria!!! It didn't work!!!
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