Yacoub and Sinan Salaheddin in Baghdad, and Nabil al-Jurani in Basra contributed reporting.

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Ahmad Nabil al-Alam was taken in central Tripoli on Sunday, the organization said.

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The Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Araby has urged the United States to support the declaration of an independent Palestinian state.

BBC: Egypt urges US to back Palestinian state declaration

Opening the meeting, the League's Secretary General, Nabil al-Arabi, said the failure of international diplomacy had put a special responsibility on the league.

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Speaking to the BBC, Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi reiterated that the league had not called for the arming of the Syrian opposition.

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In a separate development on Monday, the chief of the Arab League, Nabil al-Arabi, said UN efforts to help resolve the Syrian crisis had faltered.

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Hannan and Koubriti were taken into custody when authorities searched a Detroit apartment looking for Nabil Al-Marabh, a suspected associate of some of the hijackers.

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