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Analysis: Film at heart of Libya attack may be Fake (Mystery Deepens)
Jerusalem Post ^ | September 13, 2012 | J Post Staff

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: egypt; islam; islammovie; islammoviefake; libya; mohammed; movie; muslim; rop
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looks like the Muslims are rioting over a hoax
1 posted on 09/13/2012 9:07:42 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
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To: Arec Barrwin

Wag the Dog scenario.


2 posted on 09/13/2012 9:09:34 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: Arec Barrwin

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


3 posted on 09/13/2012 9:10:56 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Arec Barrwin
looks like the Muslims are rioting over a hoax

Or perhaps THEY created it themselves as a pretext to confuse and divide the West - a strategy which would be succeeding.

4 posted on 09/13/2012 9:11:53 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

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.


5 posted on 09/13/2012 9:15:24 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Arec Barrwin

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.


6 posted on 09/13/2012 9:15:36 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Arec Barrwin
Please folks, don't buy into this hoax. The attack occurred on 9-11. It was carefully planned in advance by an Al Quaeda-related group to exact revenge for Bin Ladin and to stir up more trouble for the U.S.

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.

7 posted on 09/13/2012 9:15:57 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Arec Barrwin

Basically sounds like somebody did an MST3K-like spoof.


8 posted on 09/13/2012 9:16:41 PM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: Arec Barrwin

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?


9 posted on 09/13/2012 9:16:52 PM PDT by virgil
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To: Arec Barrwin

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?


10 posted on 09/13/2012 9:16:56 PM PDT by virgil
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To: Arec Barrwin

Iran. Obama got played once again.


11 posted on 09/13/2012 9:17:45 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Encourage all of your Democrat friends to get out and vote on November 7th, the stakes are high.)
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To: RummyChick
I read this article and then immediately find this one. Apparently the Chinese are taking advantage of our distractions in the Middle East to try and strong-arm Japan and seize control of the Senkaku Islands.

Am I reading too much into this?

12 posted on 09/13/2012 9:18:46 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson ("I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.")
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To: Arec Barrwin

There were some funky quality changes in the voice tracks.


13 posted on 09/13/2012 9:19:05 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: RummyChick
1. - This could have been done by the terrorists to rile up the masses.

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....

14 posted on 09/13/2012 9:19:46 PM PDT by rmccullo
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To: RummyChick

OR the administration knew they ignored the intel and needed a scapegoat. Why not blame a movie and the first amendment?


15 posted on 09/13/2012 9:20:25 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Arec Barrwin

mustag fire


16 posted on 09/13/2012 9:20:43 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (oboy)
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To: RummyChick
2. Our government is behind this.

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......

17 posted on 09/13/2012 9:20:43 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: Arec Barrwin

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.


18 posted on 09/13/2012 9:21:00 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: RummyChick

I opt for both.


19 posted on 09/13/2012 9:21:54 PM PDT by Puckster
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To: rmccullo

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.


20 posted on 09/13/2012 9:23:49 PM PDT by RummyChick
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