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U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, right and Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby check the time on their watches after giving a press conference following their meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. "I answer to no one except the Syrian people," Brahimi told reporters in Cairo, and confirmed he will travel to Syria this week to meet with regime officials as well as representatives of civil society. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, right and Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby check the time on their watches after giving a press conference following their meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. "I answer to no one except the Syrian people," Brahimi told reporters in Cairo, and confirmed he will travel to Syria this week to meet with regime officials as well as representatives of civil society. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)