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Syrians carry the returning intelligence chief in Lebanon, Rustom Ghazaleh, in Damascus, April 26, 2005. Ghazaleh died recently
It seems that a curse has befallen the Syrian intelligence officers who took up posts under the Syrian tutelage in Lebanon from 1990 to 2005. Ten years following the withdrawal of the Syrian army from Lebanon on April 26, 2005, a series of tragic events has befallen these security officials. One by one, their names have been struck off the “Lebanon’s Syrians” list. Most recently, Rustom Ghazaleh was pronounced dead in Damascus on April 24. His death came weeks after news of a mysterious accident in February, involving his beating and torture at the hands of a Damascus intelligence branch.
Ghazi Kanaan was the first to be struck by the “Lebanese curse.” He came to Lebanon in 1984 as head of Syria’s security apparatus in Lebanon, assigned to the post by the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. Not…
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