While in Cairo, Condoleezza Rice denied an article in Vanity Fair that claims the United States planned to overthrow the democratically elected Hamas government by setting up an operation to fund Fatah fighters. Although Congress bars the US from supplying weapons to any Palestinian group, Rice said that the arming of Fatah is called for and justified. According to Rice, Hamas – which won elections more than one year ago – doesn't want to see the Palestinians get an independent state.