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it is too late to call back no matter what happens next already rippling through afghanistan. we ll have that later in the hour. we begin with pastor jones of the dove world outreach center in gainesville, florida, who decided months ago to burn korans to take a stand against radical islam and american accommodation of it. despite a direct appeal by president obama via abc news today on that program and despite a personal appeal in a phone call from defense secretary gates today because of the violence it could inspire against u.s. troops. jones continued to say only god s word would sway him. that word apparently came today from our guest or via our guest standing by, imam mohammed musri of the islamic society of central florida, who says he has arranged a meeting between jones and imam feisal abdul rauf of the islamic center planned for two blocks from ground zero in new york city.
eric. eric: bill, no koran-burning tomorrow at least for now. and it has been a really confusing back and forthwith pastor terry jones of the 50 member dove outreach center in gainesville, florida and now he says he will not hold this is burn a koran day if he can meet in new york city with the backers of the ground zero mosque and yesterday, jones announced he wouldn t conduct the burning because the florida imam, mohammed musri said the new york imam feisal abdul rauf agreed to move it away from ground zero. and, it all turned out that that was not true. we made an agreement that the mosque in new york city would be moved, that location, ground zero, they d go someplace else, and in return, for that, we would cancel our koran-burning event. this man of god, according to his religion, has now lied to us. eric: it is much he says it was jones who stretched the words about the claims the new
but from sources in the office of imam feisal abdul rauf, no deal to move park 51. and the man in the middle, orlando imam musri. i have made this morning contact with the office of the imam feisal abdul rauf and got the commitment to fly up to new york and meet with him in the company of pastor jones to discuss and come to a decision on relocating the mosque. our special guest, imam mohammed musri. rendition unchecked. an appeals court tosses the lawsuit challenging the company that flew its victims, jonathan turley joins me. steven hawking s argument. no god is needed to create a universe. just gravity and quantum theory. our guest, his co-author and
and then he said well would you agree to meet with them. she said sure, we ll meet with anybody but we would like to meet with him down the road at some point. she was a bit surprised when imam musri and jones suggested they were going to come up almost immediately. are we getting a picture of this that imam musri said i got you the meeting to discuss moving park 51 and i personally think it should be moved and that s what he said and pastor jones heard we ve got a meeting to discuss when it s going to be moved? forgive me for my cynical take on this. i think pastor jones was trapped in a box. he felt he had to back down after the call from secretary gates. the ground zero mosque was never an issue he was talking about. it was not on his radar and not the reason for burning the korans. i think in trying to get out of the box he was in, he tried to shift and do bait and switch and shift on to the mosque issue and so i think that s a little bit of at least a strategy of jones tryin