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Tue 09 Sep 2010Koran-burning plan condemned
America's most senior soldier in Afghanistan, Gen David Petraeus, has condemned plans by a church in the US to burn the Koran on the anniversary of 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.
The general's comments followed a protest yesterday by hundreds of Afghans over the plans by Gainesville, Florida-based Dove World Outreach Center - a small, evangelical Christian church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy - to burn copies of the Koran on church grounds to mark the 2001 attacks.
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