☠Samir Kassir assassinated

On 2 June 2005 the journalist and historian Samir Kassir, one of the figures of 14 March and an opponent of the Syrian tutelage, was killed by a bomb under his car in Ashrafieh; the first of the assassinations after the Syrian withdrawal. On 3 June Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah placed Kassir's killing in a series that began with the attempt on Hamadeh and the assassination of Hariri, calling for "thought and reflection" before accusing any side, and said of the elections: "What we decide is what we want; it is not dictated to us."