Given this was the Clinton administration, it must have been an internet video that insulted Islam. My first thought at the time was that it was Iranian revenge for the Vincennces incident. I found the internet video center fuel tank explanation lacking in credibility at the time, but I am not given to conspiracy theories. But it was the Clinton administration, in a time and place where truth was a stranger.
And what documents did Sandy Burger steal from the National Archives, and what truth was he so desperate to extinguish?
Either way the navy had to be part of the misdirection.