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.
Wag the Dog scenario.
I am really starting to become suspicious.
1. - This could have been done by the terrorists to rile up the masses.
2. Our government is behind this.
Or both
Or perhaps THEY created it themselves as a pretext to confuse and divide the West - a strategy which would be succeeding.
One thing is for sure. This video is very mysterious. The situation in the Middle East is deteriorating into a Friday post-prayer blowout. Obama Admin may have been too busy at the DNC to act on intelligence that the attack was coming. Stay tuned, folks. The next 48 hours may be critical.
Attacks on U.S. Embassies Were Not About a Movie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2930356/posts
You may be wondering how some movie no one’s heard of has caused such a hullabaloo. Well, as it turns out, the film was screened on an Egyptian Salafist television channel. Obviously the Salafists — many of whom, like Zawahiri were released from prison by Morsi, wanted to stir up anti-US violence on the eve of 9/11. So if the film is responsible for the violence, a finger needs to be pointed to its chief distributor — Al Qaida’s Egyptian friends and members.
With these facts in hand, it is clear that the attempts to present these acts of war against the US as the consequence of some stupid nothing movie are obscene attempts to deflect the blame for these unwarranted attacks onto their victims and away from their perpetrators.
If anything the film is a hastily-contrived red herring to mislead the media and the gullible. In my bones I know the Muslim Brotherhood not only knew in advance it would happen but was complicit. Obama and Hillary have opened a passageway to Hell and named it the Arab Spring.
Basically sounds like somebody did an MST3K-like spoof.
Could someone have pirated the film and dubbed it over? The history of this film is still murky to me. Could the islamists now be hijacking movies?
Could someone have pirated the film and dubbed it over? The history of this film is still murky to me. Could the islamists now be hijacking movies?
Iran. Obama got played once again.
Am I reading too much into this?
There were some funky quality changes in the voice tracks.
If so, this will be one of those rare pivitol moments in American (and World) History.... A terror cell is able to:
a) Rile up a bunch of college goons (sober, no less..) to rough up a lightly defended ambassy to divert the picture-happy media while
b) simultaneously execute a quasi torture / millitary operation and destroy the official US pressence and outreach in Libya.
I think someone's playing Chess to our checkers....
OR the administration knew they ignored the intel and needed a scapegoat. Why not blame a movie and the first amendment?
mustag fire
Bingo!
Why did the feds find the guy and point him out so quickly?
Why were our embassies unguarded?
Why weren't they warned of possible danger?
What about the Marines and rubber bullets?
Why is Hillary focusing on the film and not the violence of the muslim extremists?
And so on......
No I am sure it is real.
This couldn’t be a cover up of them chanting: “We are all Osama 0bama” in outrage to 0bama spiking the ball at the DNC.
I opt for both.
It’s a play right out of the CIA.
Perhaps the terrorists learned something from us.
After all, Obama’s mentor -Zbigniew Brzezinski was responsible for funding the Mujahadeen.
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