An anti-Islamic preacher backed off and then threatened to
reconsider burning the Koran 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.

The Rev. Terry Jones generated an international firestorm with
his plan to burn the Koran on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of
the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and he has been under
intense pressure to give it up.

Standing outside his 50-member Pentecostal church, the Dove
Outreach Center, alongside Imam Muhammad Musri, the
president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, Jones said he
relented when Musri assured him that the New York mosque will
be moved.

Hours later, after Musri and the leader of the Ground Zero
mosque denied such an agreement, Jones said Musri "clearly,
clearly lied to us."

"Given what we are now hearing, we are forced to rethink our
decision," Jones said. "So as of right now, we are not canceling
the event, but we are suspending it."