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Carter Meets With Hamas Chief

Posted Apr 18, 08 1:47 PM CDT in World 

(Newser) – Jimmy Carter met today with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal despite protests from the US State Department and the Israeli government. A Hamas deputy told the AP the agenda would include strategies to calm tensions between Israel and Hamas, as well as the fate of a kidnapped Israeli soldier. Carter has said that the group must be engaged for peace talks to make progress.

"He's giving this image some sort of recognition with one of the world's most brutal arch terrorists and, worst of all, I think Jimmy Carter is forgetting the lessons of 9/11," an Israeli minister told the BBC of the Nobel laureate's series of meetings with Hamas brass this week. "And Jimmy Carter, in a way, is forgetting his own legacy."

Sources Associated Press, BBC

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Hamas militants carry a banner showing a caricature of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on a banner in the Nusseirat Refugee Camp, central Gaza Strip, Friday, April 18, 2008.   (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met with Syrian President Bashar Assad on Friday, April 18, 2008, before meeting with Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal.   (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
Jimmy Carter defended his talks with the militant Hamas group, saying that in order to achieve peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it was necessary to talk to all parties involved.   (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter holds up his hands in greeting to students while arriving at the American University in Cairo, AUC, to deliver a speech Thursday, April 17, 2008.   (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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