In this image made from video released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Fahd Jassem al-Freij, Syria's new Defense Minister, reads a statement after he was appointed by Syrian President Bashar Assad after the former defense minister Dawoud Rajha was killed by a bomb, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, July 18, 2012. A bomb ripped through a high-level security meeting Wednesday in Damascus, killing three top regime officials including 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.