Sharm-EL-Sheikh Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit interjected toassure Condoleezza Rice the vote would be open. "Who would object to fair and transparent elections?"Gheit said. "It will be so, I assure you." Gheit said he told Rice the allegations of mistreatment ofthe holy Quran and abuse of prisoners by American troops at theAbu Ghraib prison in Iraq resonated strongly in the Arabworld. "I told you also that there is anger in the region andthat we have to work on this anger," Gheit said at thenews conference, looking directly at Rice. Earlier, Rice asked Arab countries to help thwart violenceas Israelis undergo a complex withdrawal from the GazaStrip, and argued that the whole Middle East will benefitfrom greater political freedom. "I think they will work to coordinate and make this asuccess," Rice said of the Israelis and Palestinians. Shespoke in the Jordanian capital of Amman after two days ofintensive discussions with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. "But we all have to say to any who might reject this andmight try to disrupt the withdrawal _ and I mean by thisterrorist organizations _ that it is simply unacceptable tothe international community and particularly in the Arabworld that the Palestinians would be denied this chance."--SPA1159 Local Time 0859 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/271265