UPDATE: Florida pastor cancels Quran-burning, then reconsiders

Thursday, September 9, 2010 | 9:20 p.m. CDT

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An anti-Islamic preacher backed off and then threatened to reconsider burning the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, angrily accusing a Muslim leader of lying to him Thursday with a promise to move an Islamic center and mosque away from New York's ground zero. The imam planning the center denied there was ever such a deal.

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