Man behind film appears to be fraud scammer

Post #362,548 by jay 9/13/12 3:26:58 PM Reply	Man behind film appears to be fraud scammer http://tpmmuckraker....bassy_attacks.php Early reports after TuesdayÂs violence against American diplomatic posts in Egypt and Libya identified Bacile as the producer and director of an absurd anti-Muslim film blamed for inspiring the anger of the mobs. But his biography remains sketchy at best. He has claimed to be a real estate developer, but nobody with his name has a real-estate license or appears in corporation records in California. He has been described as Israeli, but Israeli officials have not confirmed or denied that he is a citizen. He has also claimed to have raised millions for his film, but the results, a low-budget, offensive mess, seem to speak for themselves. Has the mystery been solved? The AP on Wednesday interviewed a man named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who admitted to being the manager of the company that created the movie. Nakoula, 55, was tracked down to an address outside Los Angeles linked to the cell phone with which Bacile spoke with the AP on Tuesday. Nakoula has used a lot of aliases in the past, including more then Bacily name, so the identification is fairly strong. Nakoula was hit with federal bank fraud charges, but for exactly what isn't spelled out. This is all somewhat interesting, but doesn't explain why. The obvious possiblity is that Nakoula did manage to raise $5 million somehow, spent a fraction on the movie and kept the rest. The feeble advertising on YouTube was just going through the motions, but things spiraled out of control when anti-American activists in the middle east picked on it.
Post #362,557 by rcareaga 9/13/12 10:40:38 PM Reply	Re: Man behind film appears to be fraud scammer And now a few people far better than he is are dead. Heaven forfend anyone at the Cairo embassy should "apologize" for (actually deplore) his provocation. At such times I almost regret, given this criminal imbecile's apparent proximity to the Pacific, that we can't have recourse to old-fashioned Chilean justice of the Pinochet era: a half-hour's helicopter flight past Catalina, a boot, a splash, and protein for the endangered shark population. cordially,
Post #362,560 by jay 9/14/12 9:24:40 AM Reply	It gets better http://www.guardian....ya-hollywood-film Produced and promoted by a strange collection of rightwing Christian evangelicals and exiled Egyptian Copts, the trailer was created with the intention of both destabilizing post-Mubarak Egypt and roiling the US presidential election. As a consultant for the film named Steve Klein said: "We went into this knowing this was probably going to happen." The movie was put together by radical Christian and Egyptian Copts. They had the intentional goal of trigger riots in the middle east to make the government of Egypt look bad and make Muslims look bad. I have very high standards for what degree of speech is actually incitement to violence, but it looks like this was way over the edge. Jay
Post #362,567 by S1mon_Jester 9/14/12 2:25:43 PM Reply	Re: It gets better with the intention of both destabilizing post-Mubarak Egypt and roiling the US Presidential Election Seriously, with intents like that --- it approaches a black-opt for a secret service. First thoughts were CIA...but now I'm wondering if it's Israel with the intent of getting the US into a fighting war (eventually with Iran?)
Post #362,609 by static 9/16/12 4:24:30 AM Reply	Make Muslims look bad? Oh yes it did that alright. Article from the Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.smh.com.a...120915-25ziq.html Yes, we had Muslims in Sydney protesting about that stupid film. From what has happened with major protests over the last few years, there will be arrests in time. Quite a lot, too. And these thickheads will also find themselves isolated and marginalised inside their own communities, too. Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/

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