Kerry met with Amre Moussa and Nabil El Araby, the former and current heads of the Arab League.

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Now even Amre Moussa, the only Arab member of the panel, has accepted that any politically motivated violence against innocent civilians should be regarded as terrorism, and condemned.

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Arab League Secretary-General Amre Moussa said there was no discussion of deploying Arab troops in Iraq before a new U.N. resolution and a sovereign Iraqi government are in place.

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But Amre Moussa, who was a foreign minister under Mubarak, was chief of the Arab League, and most recently a presidential candidate, played down the impact of the ruling on parliament.

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Al Ahram's count put Abdelmonen Abol Fotoh, a moderate Islamist running as an independent, and Amre Moussa, who previously served as foreign minister and headed the Arab League, in fourth and fifth places, respectively.

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In contrast Amre Moussa, the secretary-general of the Arab League, and Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, both made warmly received speeches admitting to problems in the Arab world but urging America to let Arabs decide how to solve them.

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In this election, voters can choose the status quo -- with some lip service to post-revolutionary reality -- in the form of former foreign minister and later Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa or ex-civil aviation minister and briefly prime minister Ahmed Shafik.

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