'Burn-a-Koran' pastor gives imam two-hour meeting deadline

The pastor who planned an “International Burn-a-Koran Day” tonight publicly challenged the imam overseeing plans for a controversial Islamic centre in New York to start talks.

Pastor Terry Jones had planned to fly to New York tonight and hoped to meet Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf tomorrow – on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the US – to talk about unhappiness about the centre being sited close to Ground Zero.