Two powerful bombs ripped through the Syrian Embassy here today killing a Syrian diplomat and seriously wounding eight people, seven of them women. The explosion occurred less than an hour before Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddom arrived in France for talks with French officials and to address the Council of Europe plenary in Strasbourg later this week.
Abdul Halim Khaddam is due to meet tomorrow with his French counterpart Aeon Francois-Poncet, and with other top French officials. Syria is one of the handful of Moslem countries which did not attend the Islamic Foreign Ministers Conference in Islamabad, Pakistan,