The turnabout was particularly upsetting to Mr. Akhaoui , because he was a close friend of Samir Kassir , a fellow journalist and outspoken critic of Syria who died when his car blew up early this month , in an assassination , like that of Mr. Hariri , for which Lebanese blame Damascus .
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