FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2011 file photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, stands with Syrian Defense Minister Dawoud Rajha, right, and an unidentified man during a ceremony in Damascus, Syria, to mark the 38th anniversary of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war. A bomb ripped through a high-level security meeting in Damascus Wednesday, July 18, 2012, killing three top regime officials, including Gen. Rajha and President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law, in the harshest blow to Syria's ruling family dynasty and the rebels' boldest attack in the country's civil war. (AP Photo/SANA, File) ORG XMIT: CAI102
