Baby Bashar blames Bush: US to blame for attack on its embassy: Syria.

BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States and its Middle East policies are to blame for a recent failed attack on the U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was quoted on Sunday as saying in a German magazine.

Four Syrians tried to blow up the embassy on September 12 but the plot failed after Syrian guards killed three of the assailants in a shootout. The fourth man later died of his wounds.

“This seems to have been the background of the attack, a reaction to America’s policy in Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan,” Assad was quoted by Der Spiegel weekly as saying.