Pressure rises on pastor who wants to burn Quran (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Tue, 09/07/2010 - 7:03pm

Rev.<br /><br />Terry Jones at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Jones plans to burn copies of the Quran on church grounds to mark the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States that provoked the Afghan war.<br /><br />(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - The government turned up the pressure Tuesday on the head of a small Florida church who plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, warning him that doing so could endanger U.S. troops and Americans everywhere.



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