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"Michael Jackson wanted to meet the killers of toddler James Bulger and tell them that he &amp;quot;loved&amp;quot; them, according to reports today. The star is said to have made the confession during recorded interviews with his close friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who is publishing transcripts of the conversations in a new book called The Michael Jackson Tapes. Bulger was abducted from a shopping centre in Merseyside by ten-year-old boys Jon Venables and Robert Thompson in 1993. The pair then tortured the 2-year-old to death before leaving his body on a railway line. According to The Daily Telegraph, Jackson told Boteach that he once had an argument with his first wife Lisa Marie Presley when he discussed his desire to meet the killers. The late singer is quoted as saying: &amp;quot;These boys were like 11 and 10-year-old boys and I was going to go to prison and visit them. She said, &amp;#039;You idiot - you&amp;#039;re just rewarding them for what they did&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;I said, &amp;#039;How dare you say that. I bet if you trace their life you can find they didn&amp;#039;t have parents around, they didn&amp;#039;t have any love, nobody there to hold them, look in their eyes and say I love you. They deserve that even though they&amp;#039;re going to get life. I just want to say I love you, and hold them&amp;#039;.&amp;quot;  Meanwhile, Boteach told The Sun that Jackson &amp;quot;didn&amp;#039;t believe children could be evil&amp;quot;. Venables and Thompson were released from a young offenders&amp;#039; institute in 2001 and given new identities. &amp;gt; Jackson: &amp;#039;I could have changed Hitler&amp;#039; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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