Koran burning threat 'huge media show:' Fidel Castro
AFP
HAVANA- The Koran burning threat by a Florida pastor was "a huge media show" only the United States could put on, former Cuban president Fidel Castro said Friday.
The whole affair was "a huge media show, the complete chaos expected of a sinking empire," Castro, 84, said, reading from a statement after he presented the second volume of his autobiography in Havana.
Castro said Jones' threat had made "even US and European military commanders in punishing war missions tremble at a news item they considered put their soldiers at risk."
By late Thursday, he added, "we got news the pastor had relinquished (his threat). It would be nice to know what the FBI agents who visited him said 'to persuade him.'"
Jones said he had called off the burning after being promised a controversial mosque project would be moved further away from Ground Zero. But the imam behind the project said he had not promised to move the mosque or to meet with Jones.
Still, it seemed likely the Koran-burning would not proceed on Saturday.
"I want to be clear and confirm one hundred percent that there will not be Korans burning tomorrow (Saturday)", evangelical leader K.A. Paul told reporters in Gainesville.
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