Powerful former Syrian army general dies in hospital
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.
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.
There was no official government comment and the circumstances of his death remain unclear.
