Jermaine Jackson: `I ambition it was me'

NEW YORK – Jermaine Jackson says he would like to see Neverland Ranch as his brother Michael's final comatose place.

In an account advertisement Thursday on NBC's "Today" show, Jermaine Jackson additionally said he wishes he had died instead of his adolescent brother, and that Michael was "a allowance from Allah."

"He went too soon. I don't apperceive how bodies are activity to booty this, but I ambition it was me," Jermaine Jackson said.

When asked why he acquainted that way, Jermaine Jackson said he consistently acquainted that he was Michael's "backbone."

"Someone to be there for him. I was there and he was array of like Moses. Things he couldn't say, I would say them. During the trials, during aggregate ..."

Jermaine Jackson said that back he rushed to UCLA Medical Center aftermost Thursday, area the 50-year-old pop accompanist was arresting dead, "I capital to see Michael, and I capital to see my brother, and seeing him there asleep and asthmatic was actual affecting for me, but I captivated myself calm because I apperceive he's actual abundant alive."

"His spirit is, and that was aloof a shell, but I kissed him on his forehead and I hugged him, and I affected him and I said, `Michael, I'll never leave you. You'll never leave me.'"

On Wednesday, Jackson ancestors agent Ken Sunshine said a accessible canonizing was in the works but it wouldn't be captivated at Neverland.

A being accustomed with the bearings told the AP that permits for a burying at the sprawling Santa Barbara, Calif., acreage could not be abiding in time. The being was not accustomed to allege for the ancestors and batten on action of anonymity.

Jackson said Neverland was Michael's home.

"He created this. Why wouldn't he be here? I feel his presence."

(This adaptation SUBS graf 5 to actual to 'Moses' from 'molded.')