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Obama Administration Considers Calling Pastor Terry Jones to Stop the Koran Burning

09/09/2010 1:49 pm 0 comments

Source: Emily Friedman / ABC News

The White House is considering calling controversial Florida pastor Terry Jones to request that he not proceed with this Saturday’s scheduled Koran burning that has sparked fears of violence worldwide.

Jones has said he is willing to listen to a call from the White House, Pentagon or State Department, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said at the daily press briefing.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs “there are discussions about the possibility of doing that… I don’t know if a final decision has been made on that.”

When suggested that the president would not be making any calls to Jones, but said it was under discussion that “someone from inside the administration” would make an appeal.

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