
Carter returning
empty-handed from Mideast
By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press
JERUSALEM — With his Mideast shuttle winding down Monday, Jimmy Carter picked up the phone in Jerusalem and called the Hamas boss in Damascus one more time.
Halt the rocket fire on Israel for a month, without preconditions, and gain some international goodwill, the former president said he told Khaled Mashaal, supreme leader of the Islamic militant group.
But Mashaal, who met with Carter for seven hours in Damascus over the weekend, said no.
"I did the best I could," Carter said of his last-minute attempt to change Mashaal's mind on the rockets. "They turned me down, and I think they're wrong." This meant Carter was leaving the region without concrete concessions from Hamas.
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