In the wake of Saturday's car-bombing in Damascus, in which 17 people were killed, the main exiled opposition group, The Reform Party of Syria, thinks it was what the Israelis calls "a work-related accident". That is, the bomb went off prematurely as it was being transported to where it was supposed to have been detonated — Iraq or Lebanon.
But then again, it might be the hidden hand that killed Hizbollah lynchpin Imad Murghniyyeh or shot the intelligence general in charge of liaising with Hizbollah in Lebanon.
Murky business, intelligence