Last year, says Marwan Muasher, the foreign minister, American Express wanted to open a software center in Amman.

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The cable details a briefing to the U.S. ambassador by the then-Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher, who is describing what the cable calls the "stark ignorance" shown by Syria towards the rest of the world.

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Marwan Muasher, a vice president at the Carnegie Endowment and a former deputy prime minister of Jordan, said Mr. Obama wasted an opportunity after Cairo by failing to follow through and instead taking an incremental approach to the peace process.

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Marwan Muasher, a former Jordanian foreign minister and longtime advocate of Arab reform, said Wednesday that the Middle East is a new environment now, where young men and women are laying their lives on the line for democracy throughout the region.

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