April 15, 2008
Carter request to enter Gaza
turned down
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met an ex-minister
in Hamas's government on Tuesday, defying Israeli leaders who shunned
the Nobel Peace Prize laureate over his contacts with the Islamist
movement.
Carter said he had sought to visit the Gaza Strip, which
Hamas seized in June after routing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's
secular Fatah faction. He said the request was turned down, but he did not
point the finger at Israel.
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