Posted on 09/13/2012 9:07:33 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Analysis: Film at heart of Libya attack may be fake By JPOST.COM STAFF
09/13/2012 03:57
Offensive references to Islam sloppily inserted in post-production; film's cast and crew say original plot unrelated to religion.
Details casting doubt on the authenticity of the controversial film Innocence of Muslims, which sparked protests in Cairo and spurred the Libya attack that killed US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, mounted on Wednesday. A series of facts brought to light by online media such as Gawker, Buzzfeed and blogs on CNN, The Atlantic, and The Christian Science Monitor paint the picture of a possible hoax.
In the film's 14-minute trailer (below), which set off the crisis after it was posted to YouTube, the name Muhammad and anti-Islam remarks are clearly dubbed over the original words, clashing with the film's visual cues. The sloppy editing calls into question whether the Hollywood film was, in fact, really created as an anti-Muslim screed, or simply edited to look that way. Despite an alleged $5 million budget, the production quality of the film is very low.
Those involved in making the film, originally entitled Desert Warrior instead of Innocence of Muslims, denied that the film was meant to have anything to do with Islam, saying they were unaware of any such intentions during the film's production. According to CNN, a statement released by the film's 80-strong cast and crew said they were "grossly misled about its intent and purpose," and were "shocked by the drastic re-writes of the script and lies that were told to all involved."
One of the film's actresses, Cindy Lee Garcia, told Gawker that, as far as she knew, the film was going to be "based on how things were 2,000 years ago," a time period that predates Islam by some 600 years.
"It wasn't based on anything to do with religion, it was just on how things were run in Egypt. There wasn't anything about Muhammed or Muslims or anything," Garcia told Gawker. According to Garcia, the character portrayed as Muhammed was called "Master George" in the script.
Then comes the identity of the allegedly Jewish, Israeli-born director/scriptwriter, Sam Bacile.
As The Jerusalem Post reported, a high-ranking Israeli official in Los Angeles said that after numerous inquiries, it appeared that no one in the Hollywood film industry or in the local Israeli community had ever heard of him.
Steve Klein, a "a self-described militant Christian activist in Riverside, California" who was involved with the film, told The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg that Bacile was not the director's real name, and that he was not Israeli and probably not Jewish either. "I would suspect this is a disinformation campaign," Klein said.
The mounting evidence seems to suggest that the trailer was either a poorly-edited, wild rewrite of the film's original script or a flat out hoax, though no evidence has yet emerged confirming the possibility.
There is another article on this subject posted at FR a few minutes ago which strongly implicates Zawhiri who pointed out that his second in command al-Libi had been killed by the US.
Bttt.
Its his project from our Whtie House.
This arab spring thing is just one of Obama’s orchestrated, choreographed and conducted projects in building and consolidating his North African caliphate. Being muslim, he knows exactly what he is doing, and at America’s expense.
Strategically, his goal was to encapsulate Israel. Soon they will take a run at it and if they find it easy going, then they will take another run at America.
Worst part? Obama has a penchant for dictators and “rulers” and the alien/muslim feels the same should be for America. It will be a bitch prying his ass from the White House. I believe he will attempt to hang on to power at any cost.
It is also way too sad that we have the Worlds Greatest Ghazi!..... operating from our White House!
The film could be “black” propaganda perpetrated by any number of culprits—the Russian FSB, Iranian intelligence, Hamas, al-Quaeda, etc.
Same thing happened with the Mohammed cartoons; some radical muslims created some very crude cartoons and told their followers that they appeared in the Danish newspaper.
Do I detect a schmeer of Ploufe on the Axelrod?
Maybe he really is a foreign Muslim.
Because mere stupidity, even that powered by a Harvard Law School degree, cannot account for all this...he makes Carter look positively masculine.
Cheers!
Stonewall Jackson might be onto something. The Chinese seem to be making a move on some Japanese islands while the world watches this incident, and you know how it works in those waters. Get up on a rock and shake a harpoon, and the island is yours. We may have multiple players on this chessboard.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
More like a “What’s Up Tiger Lilly?”
What the **** are we witnessing here...
the world has seen a lot of true leftist colors in this country because of this
I wonder if this was a deliberate act to rile up the muslims so it would make it very difficult for Israel to attack Iran?
Let me guess either your horse or your car is burning.
Back in the days of trying to overthrow an Indonesian Leader- someone came up with a plan to try to make the leader look bad.
A Hollywood A-List star and his brother were brought in to make a fake porno tape of the leader. They weren’t in the tape. They produced it.
It might be a lot easier these days with the internet to create bedlam.
It sounds like something China could cook up, but all this to distract us while they go after some rocks? It could be Iran, making the whole region too unstable for Israel to risk an attack. If the rest of the Islamic nations are hyped up on extremism, they would strike Israel if they bomb Iran, either through their governments, or as independent terrorists.
As I opined. This isn’t Al-Qaeda’s game. They’ve taken a clear shot in a moment of chaos, as is to be expected, but the video and its elusive creator is too much of a weird factor in this thing.
i happen to know your reading comprehension is better than that, but understand how the eyes play tricks when it comes to the prited word.
I wonder if this wasn’t a disinformation operation combined with a money scam. Sounds like something the Russian mob/Ex-KGB would pull with it’s usual ham-fisted finesse. Ham-fisted, just look at the production values and finesse in that it appears to be a good I.D. cover-up and a clean get away.
The stupid video was just an excuse. I agree the next 48 hours could be critical. Things are getting dicey.
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