He’ll say the opposite thing in Arabic within the next 24 hours.

(Haaretz) — Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Monday that he respected a UN resolution that authorized military action on Libya, after earlier comments suggested he was concerned by actions taken by Western powers.

“The Arab League position on Libya was decisive and from the first moment we froze membership of Libya . . . Then we asked the United Nations to implement a no-fly zone,” he told a news conference with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

“We respect the UN resolution and there is no conflict with it, especially as it indicated there would be no invasion but that it would protect civilians from what they are subject to in Benghazi,” he said.

The UN-mandated intervention to protect civilians caught up in a one-month-old revolt against Muammar Gadhafi had drawn comments from Moussa on Sunday suggesting he questioned the need for a heavy bombardment that he said had killed many civilians.