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He’s been villified at home for meeting the leader of a group, the US calls a terrorist organisation.

However, Jimmy Carter, the former US President, sat down for talks with the political leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal in Damascus.

Carter, who won a Nobel Prize for negotiating peace between Israel and Egypt, holds no official power, but he is an influential voice.

Al Jazeera’s Clayton Swisher reports from Damascus.

Al Jazeera has learned that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is planning to meet with Hamas leader Khalid Meshaal in Damascus.



As Clayton Swisher reports, it’s a visit that won’t win him many fr…

Armed groups operate throughout Somalia with the aim of destabilising the interim government.One group, known as the Mujahidin Youth, has told Al Jazeera that it will attack anyone who supports the government. Clayton Swisher reports.