JFIFHH:Photoshop 3.08BIMUStaff_LebanonxFO/BEIRUT Beirut, Lebanon 4/1/05 Samir Kassir is a columnist with the An-Nahar newspaper and a leading organizer of the opposition movement to Syrian involvement in Lebanon. FOR A STORY BY SCOTT WILSON. 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