U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleeza Rice granted an exclusive interview to FNC's
Steve Centanni in Jerusalem yesterday. It began with
this reference to
Centanni's kidnapping last summer:

| | QUESTION: Madame Secretary, thank you very much for joining us this morning.
 SECRETARY RICE: A pleasure to be with you.
 QUESTION: And I must say it's very good to be here instead of where I was last summer.
 SECRETARY RICE: Well, I am delighted to be sitting across from you, given the ordeal that you went through. I'm just glad that it's ended well and I'm delighted to be sitting across from you.
 QUESTION: Thank you and thanks for you help.
 SECRETARY RICE: Well, we did what we could, but I can't tell you how good it was to see you when I walked in the Fox News studio that day and it's especially great to be sitting here with you in Jerusalem.

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Excerpts from the interview aired on Special Report with
Brit Hume...