Syrian Defence Minister Hassan Turkmani

DAMASCUS, SYRIA: Syrian Defence Minister Hassan Turkmani (R) and Chief of Syrian Army Ali Habib wait outside the Al-Shami hospital in Damascus as the body of Syrian Interior Minister Lieutenant General Ghazi Kanaan, who committed suicide in his office yesterday, is carried into an ambulance, 13 October 2005. The former security chief for two decades in Lebanon is to be buried in his home village Bhamra, near Latakia in northwestern Syria. Kanaan shot himself in the mouth with his pistol, public prosecutor Mohammed Marwan al-Luwaji told the state news agency SANA. AFP PHOTO/LOUAI BESHARA (Photo credit should read LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images)