Thursday June 2, 2005

I've Been Thinking:

Another popular public personality was assassinated in Beirut today.

Samir Kassir was a columnist for the newspaper An Nahar.
He was staunchly anti-Syrian.

It was a cookie cutter assassination.
A bomb was linked to the ignition of his Alfa Romeo. It detonated as he started the car outside his home in the Christian neighborhood Ashrafiyeh.

There have been 5 similar bombings in Christian areas of Beirut since March.
3 people have been killed, 50 wounded.

You need not be a Law & Order aficionado to put the pieces together.
Kassir was undoubtedly assassinated by the Syrians or by a Syrian backed and trained group.

The Syrians have the most to gain by his death.
The Syrians had the most to lose had he continued writing his columns.