Carter: Rice Didn't Warn Me About Hamas
(IsraelNN.com) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter denied Wednesday Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's claims that she had warned him not to visit Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal.
"No one in the State Department or any other department of the U.S. government ever asked him (Carter) to refrain from his recent visit to the Middle East or even suggested that he not meet with Syrian President (Bashar) Assad or leaders of Hamas," said a statement released by the Atlanta-based Carter Center, which speaks on the former president's behalf.
Carter met Mashaal in Damascus last weekend.