US to Blame for Attack on Its Embassy-Syria's Assad
The United States and its Middle East policies are to blame for a recent failed attack on the US embassy in Damascus, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was quoted on Sunday, September 24, 2006, as saying in a German magazine. Four Syrians tried to blow up the embassy on Sept. 12 but the plot failed after Syrian guards killed three of the assailants in a shootout. The fourth man later died of his wounds.