Lieutenant General Ghazi Kanaan, the powerful head of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon for two decades, has been appointed as head of his country's political security agency, an official Lebanese statement said Wednesday.
"General Kanaan will head the political security agency in Syria," said a statement from the office of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, who received Kanaan earlier Wednesday in a farewell ceremony, according to AFP.
During a similar ceremony, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud decorated Kanaan with the National Order of the Cedar, a top Lebanese distinction. (Albawaba.com)
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