A Syrian official who declined to speak on the record told the Associated Press that Gen. Kenaan shot himself in the mouth with a silencer-equipped gun. A colleague found him slumped at his desk and a pool of blood on the ground, the official said.
and the Washington Times article also paints a better picture about the suicide and why it might not be what some of us in the bloggersphere think
But Oklahoma University Middle East scholar Joshua Landis, now in Damascus, noted that Gen. Kenaan was known to be close to Mr. Hariri and had opposed efforts by others in Syria to support his rival, former Lebanese President Emile Lahoud.
"If Washington were to turn to anyone to carry out a coup against Bashar, it would have to place Ghazi Kenaan at the top of the list," Mr. Landis wrote in an analysis yesterday.
We may have to wait a decade or two to find out what really happened
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