the all searching eye

Here is an article summing up the events surrounding the suicide of Syrian minister Ghazi Kenaan. Knowing the tactics the Asad regime has employed, my first reaction was to wonder if this really was suicide. To be fair, no evidence suggests otherwise. Whatever the circumstances, al-jazeera’s observation that no comment or analysis has been forthcoming from Syrian official sources is typical of the secretive Baathist majority government. In any case, this development is interesting since it rises out of the investigations into the assassination of Lebanese Premier Rafiq Hariri. Minister Ghazi Kenaan has become another casualty in a highly controversial Syrian-Lebanese relationship.