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UN Envoy: UN Workers Killed Running From Bunker

KABUL, Afghanistan - Fearing for their lives, the U.N. workers dashed into a dark bunker hoping to escape the mob of Afghan protesters angry over the burning of a Quran by a Florida church. Hope wasn't enough for three of them. They were hunted down and brutally slain - their bodies found later in three different parts of...

Controversial Florida Pastor Barred From Britain

LONDON -- A U.S. pastor who had threatened to burn a Quran on an anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has been barred from visiting Britain, its government said Wednesday. Florida pastor Terry Jones had planned to address a right-wing group, England is Ours, and join it for meetings and demonstrations from...

Pastor Awarded Car for Canceling Quran Burning

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. (Oct. 15) - A New Jersey car dealer plans to keep his word after offering Florida pastor Terry Jones a new car if he promised to not burn a Quran. Car dealer Brad Benson made the offer in one of his dealership's quirky radio ads, which focus more on current events than cars. But he was surprised when...

Planning a Quran Burning Is Costly, Plus 5 Other Lessons Terry Jones Taught Us

(Sept. 21) -- America's favorite controversial, mustachioed pastor, Terry Jones, learned a hard lesson today: Quran burnings are expensive. And now that the hullabaloo over his planned sacrilegious bonfire has died down, it might be a good time to ask what other lessons he has taken from his experience. But since Jones has...

Florida Preacher on Quran Burning: 'Not Ever'

(Sept. 11) -- The Florida pastor who threatened to burn Korans to mark 9/11 and in the process became the center of a domestic and global maelstrom said Saturday morning that he had definitively canceled the book burning because he had accomplished his mission of revealing Islam to harbor dangerous elements. "Not today,...