(New York Times) Douglas Jehl - The Bush administration Thursday increased pressure on the Syrian government by ordering a freeze on any assets in American financial institutions controlled by two senior Syrian intelligence officials who served as Syria's de facto rulers in Lebanon. Ghazi Kanaan, now Syria's interior minister, served until 2002 as chief of military intelligence in Lebanon, and Rustum Ghazali succeeded him. The two, pillars of President Bashar al-Assad's government, are both believed to have profited enormously from their tenures in Lebanon.
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