Col. Riad Assaad's "huge operation": Suicide bomber' attack in Damascus

(Reuters) - "A suicide bomber killed about 25 people and wounded 46 in Damascus on Friday, Syria's state news agency SANA said, in the third such attack in the Syrian capital in a month.

The blast occurred two days before an Arab League committee was due to discuss an initial report of Arab observers ...(and hours before the arrival of Jeffrey Feltman in Cairo)...  The meeting may decide whether to continue the mission or to refer Syria to the United Nations Security Council, perhaps paving the way for some form of international action, a scenario that many Arab countries are keen to avoid..."