 A Syrian activist and several Lebanese TV stations are reporting that powerful former Syrian army general Rostom Ghazali has died in a hospital in the capital Damascus.
| Sepsis or sucking chest wound? |
Ghazali, in his early 60s, was the most powerful man in Lebanon during Syria’s long occupation of that country, and is suspected of involvement in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
| And now he's dead. Excellent! |
There was no official government comment and the circumstances of his death remain unclear.
Director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdurrahman said Ghazali died nearly two months after he was admitted with a head injury. Reports at the time said he was beaten by the bodyguards of another Syrian general.
| Perhaps he said something and there was a "trigger warning"... |
Top Syrian security official Rustom Ghazali died of his wounds, pro-Bashar al-Assad al-Mayadeen satellite channel reported on Friday.
But that statement neither confirms nor denies, does it?? |