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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Photos Full Coverage Sitemap US pastor puts Koran-burning on hold AFP - Saturday, September 11 Send IM Story Print US pastor puts Koran-burning on hold GAINESVILLE, Florida (AFP) - – A Florida pastor at the center of an international firestorm insisted Friday he would not carry out a plan to burn the Koran, but failed to stem a global tide of Muslim outrage. Radical evangelist Terry Jones had first announced on Thursday he had scrapped the mass burning of the Muslim holy book on September 11 after a day of high-stakes religious brinkmanship. But when his claims that a deal had been struck to relocate a proposed Islamic cultural center in New York dissolved in acrimony, he threatened to go ahead with the event to mark the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States. However in an interview with ABC News on Friday he said: "Right now, we have plans not to do it." He added: "We believe that the imam is going to keep his word, what he promised us (Thursday)." Jones met Thursday with Orlando-based imam Mohammed Musri, who helped set up a meeting on Saturday with Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the controversial New York project. "He gave us the proposal that they would move the mosque from the Ground Zero location," Jones told ABC, despite Musri's denials of having made such a promise. "The Muslims do not want us to burn the Koran. Americans do not want the mosque near the Ground Zero place. And we made the proposal on the radio, which he heard, that if they were willing to move the mosque from the Ground Zero location, we would be willing to cancel our event. He came back to me with that proposal," Jones told ABC. Jones, whose tiny Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, has a congregation of only 50, had cast himself as having single-handedly resolved the standoff thanks to his threat to desecrate the Koran. Musri, leader of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, said he made no such promises to Jones. Related article:Koran burning outrage builds as Muslims mark Eid "I do not have any control over the mosque in New York," Musri told ABC. Jones "stretched and exaggerated my statements," Musri said. "I told him, I'm willing to make contact, as an imam, to the imam in New York ... and ask on his behalf to schedule a meeting. And I told him, I will invite you with me." Musri believes "it's the right thing" to move the proposed New York Islamic center from its present location. "The meeting will happen," Musri told ABC. "I'm not in my position of authority to make them move it. But I will try my level best to persuade them to do so." However those behind the New York project, which is slated for a building two and half blocks from the site of the former World Trade Center struck down by 9/11 aircraft hijackers, quickly denied any agreement. Related article: Ahmadinejad's Koran warning "We don't know anything about it," Daisy Khan, one of its main promoters and the wife of Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the project, told AFP. "I am glad that Pastor Jones has decided not to burn any Korans," Rauf said in a later statement to CNN, before adding: "We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter." Commanders of the US-led war in Afghanistan have warned the torching could place their troops' lives in danger. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in a message to mark the start of the Eid al-Fitr festival, said Jones "should not even think" of burning the Koran. "By burning the Koran they cannot harm it. The Koran is in the hearts and minds of one-and-a-half billion people. (But) insulting the Koran is an insult to nations," Karzai said. Thousands of furious Afghans threw rocks Friday at a small NATO-run base in remote northeastern Afghanistan as they protested the church's plans. Across the border in Pakistan, hundreds of protesters rallied in the city of Multan where they set fire to American flags. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono lashed out anew against Jones a day after calling on US President Barack Obama to intervene. "This threatens peace and international security. This is something that endangers harmony among religious people," he said. Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani warned of "terrible" consequences if a Florida church followed through on plans to burn the Korans, but called on Muslims to exercise restraint in their reaction to the "shameful" plans. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad branded the episode a "Zionist plot" that would end up in the speedy "annihilation" of Israel, while Ismail Haniya, a top leader of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, called Jones an "insane lunatic." Concern is so high that US Defense Secretary Robert Gates put in a personal phone call to Jones on Thursday to try to change his mind, warning that the Koran burning would put US soldiers' lives at risk. Obama said Jones's planned burning would only serve as "a recruitment bonanza for Al-Qaeda." 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