Posted on 09/13/2012 3:29:59 PM PDT by roses of sharon
Attorney General Eric Holder said that Justice Department officials had opened a criminal investigation into the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other diplomats killed during an attack on the American mission in Benghazi. It was not immediately clear whether authorities were focusing on the California filmmaker as part of that probe.
A federal law enforcement official said Thursday that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was the man behind "Innocence of Muslims," a film denigrating Islam and the Prophet Muhammad that sparked protests earlier in the week in Egypt and Libya and now in Yemen. U.S. authorities are investigating whether the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Libya came during a terrorist attack.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation, said Nakoula was connected to the persona of Sam Bacile, a figure who initially claimed to be the writer and director of the film. But Bacile quickly turned out to a false identity and the Associated Press traced a cellphone number used by Bacile to a southern California house where Nakoula was found.
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So will this make it ok for President Romney to go after Matt and Trey for “The Book of Mormon”?
They have it all wrong.
The GREATEST issue that we as a nation has with this whole debacle is the VERY concerning effects that Mitt Romney's speech has on the situation since HE is just a candidate for POTUS. /s
They are trying to deflect from the fact they helped put al-Qaeda rebel thugs in power in Libya.
Fast and Furious North Africa division.
The only thing worse than that movie is that there are actually morons who want to censor it.
dfwgator ~ Why do you say that?
Because he told the truth?
Well .. according to Michelle my belle, the real national security issue is: WE HAVE TOO MANY FAT PEOPLE.
January 20,2013 cannot come soon enough!!
Nov 6 will be wonderful - because I’m convinced Romney will win, but then we still have to put up with O for more than 60 days.
so it’s probably best i don’t publish my multi-choice koran treatment webpage
read... delete... burn... pee.. puree ... all the normal options afforded the bible by american progressives
i wonder if i’ll still get that national art funding for my ‘72 hairy v-jaja’s covering mo-ham-med in a jar of pig-urine... wrapped in bacon’
i figured if they gave one out for the ‘abstract representation’ of the virgin Mary, then mine would be a shoe in for a grant and maybe a place in the NY metro museum of art
Why was the movie dumb ? They didnt kill anyone because of the movie. They hate America. Another attack on freedom
And this is my point...they didn't kill anyone because a low-budget flick. They're using it as an excuse.
Islamic blasphemy laws in the US? Well I guess what the DOJ will do is classify it as hate speech. So anything said against Islam will bring the DOJ in.
Zero is trying to cover his a$$ and pointing the finger at someone else.
Osama is dead and GM is alive.
What did the embassy burners chant?
We are all Osama.
Would anyone be surprised if a GM Plant was unexpectedly attacked?
Check out post # 18 in the link I just posted.
It is amazing to me how many people forget about the first amendment.
Just need to stoke the fire, under two months now . . . /sig
How about because the movie is so poorly done that it cannot educate, inform, or even change attitudes. All it can do is cause boredom in decent people or violent anger in Muslims. Creating a movie for either purpose is worse than disappointing. Does anyone, even someone who agrees completely with its portrayal of Islam, think that even one viewer would take this film seriously as an educational tool? There are a lot of productive things that could be done to fight Islam's violent spread, including movies that could be made. Why did this person waste his time on such an inept movie?
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