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In charge of military intelligence in Beirut from 1982 to 2002, Gen. Ghazi Kenaan was effectively the Syrian Viceroy of Lebanon.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)
In charge of military intelligence in Beirut from 1982 to 2002, Gen. Ghazi Kenaan was effectively the Syrian Viceroy of Lebanon. A hardliner in the little Baathist clique around Hafez Assad, and then his son and heir Bashar Assad, Kenaan was greatly feared. His lust for power and money was legendary. On account of his intelligence background, he was widely suspected of organizing the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. His assets in the United States have been frozen, and the United Nations investigation into the assassination of Hariri has been closing in on him. Nobody need be too ...
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