UPDATE: Secretary Gates intervened. He called the wingnut. Got this via twitter from Mark Knoller of CBS News:
Pentagon says Def Secy Gates phoned Pastor Jones this afternoon to urge him to cancel the Koran book burning Saturday.
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This afternoon, we got the news from Florida that wingnut Terry Jones won't be burning Qurans on Saturday:
The Gainesville pastor behind the Quran burning scheduled for Saturday announced Thursday afternoon that he plans to cancel the event.Hmm. Does anyone trust anything Jones says? (UPDATE: They shouldn't. It's not true about the NYC mosque, of course.)
Imam Muhammad Musri, president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida in Orlando, made the announcement with the Rev. Terry Jones at a press conference outside the Dove World Outreach Center, a tiny nondenominational church.
The two announced they would fly to New York City this weekend to talk to Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, the Muslim cleric behind the proposed mosque being built near ground zero. Jones said that Muslim leader has agreed to relocate the mosque, but that had not been confirmed.
