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Car Bomb In Syrian Capital Kills 17
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Fayed Sayegh, a journalist in Damascus, said Assad's government might have angered some Syrians with its recent efforts to mend relations with the West, including ongoing indirect peace talks with Israel.
Syria's state news agency on Saturday reported that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem met briefly in New York on Friday. The report did not provide details.
Rice told U.S. reporters the meeting lasted 10 minutes.
Assad's government, led by his minority Alawite sect, at times has battled armed factions of the country's Sunni majority.
Hafez al-Assad's security forces killed an estimated 20,000 people in a crackdown on the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood in 1982 in the city of Hama.
In 2006, gunmen identified by the government as Islamist extremists attacked the U.S. Embassy in Damascus with guns and grenades, killing a Syrian security guard.
Ibrahim reported from Beirut. A special correspondent in Baghdad contributed to this report.
