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.
The enemy is now running the damned government. Investigate to the max, nothing will be done because there is no Rule of Law in America, only rule by democrat party empowerment, which of course must not be diminished so the fifth column (read media) will write the ‘news’ as instructed, to defer damages. ... Guillotines from orbit I say, it’s the only way to be sure ...
Expect to see about 10 versions of all this when Hitler finds out....
Thanks for that link... I’ll check it out tomorrow.
The Washington Times also reported that the Libya news was claiming the Amb was “killed by his own al-Qaeda puppets.”
Now what does THAT mean?
“looks like the Muslims are rioting over a hoax”
Hmmm. I’m confused. A fake religion is rioting over a hoax. I know there is a name for that.
The Washington Times also reported that the Libya news was claiming the Amb was killed by his own al-Qaeda puppets.
Now what does THAT mean?
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That many people are not very happy with us becoming involved with taking out Qadaffi? It is beginning to look like our ambassador met a fate similar to Qadaffi.
##Chris Stevens had been back in the country only a short while and the details of his visit to Benghazi, where he and his staff died, were meant to be confidential.
Mr Stevens had been on a visit to Germany, Austria and Sweden and had just returned to Libya when the Benghazi trip took place with the US embassys security staff deciding that the trip could be undertaken safely.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/revealed-inside-story-of-us-envoys-assassination-8135797.html
*Stevens was the American representative to the Transitional National Council in Benghazi during the revolution, in Libya. Benghazi was the capital of rebel-held Libya during the uprising to oust Qaddafi.*
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June 6 2012
The group was reportedly trying to gain information about its missing leader. The attack ended when the Transitional National Council (TNC) authorised the interior and defense ministries - who oversee a broad constellation of brigades made up of former rebels - to use all means necessary, including force, to retake the airport.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/us-embassy-in-libya-comes-under-attack/story-fn3dxity-1226386750563
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Gaddafi daughter in hospital after watching her father lynch on TV
http://www.albawaba.com/news/gaddafi-daughter-hospital-after-watching-her-father-lynch-tv-397826
That was on June 11, or roughly a month before three of Chinas biggest state-owned arms companies secretly offered to sell Col. Muammar el-Qaddafis army $200 million in weapons to put down the rebellion. The offer, discovered by a Canadian journalist in documents tossed into a Tripoli trash heap, flouted a United Nations embargo on weapons sales to the Qaddafi government an embargo that China itself had voted for in February.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/world/asia/12china.html?pagewanted=all
I don’t know anything about this site, but the article is interesting:
hteeteep://www.worldcrunch.com/exclusive-iran-may-be-secretly-arming-gaddafi-anti-west-alliance/world-affairs/exclusive-iran-may-be-secretly-arming-gaddafi-in-anti-west-alliance-/c1s3416/
Putin lashes out at U.S. role in Gadhafi killing He also attacked U.S. Sen. John McCain over a warning that Russia might follow the same path as Libya, suggesting McCain was not of sound mind
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/15/putin-lashes-out-at-u-s-role-in-gadhafi-killing/
Interesting summary here:
http://blogs.cbn.com/stakelbeckonterror/archive/2011/10/20/gaddafi-is-dead-whats-next-for-libya.aspx
ALAN COMMENT: HEADS UP AMERICA!
THE VIOLENCE AND PROTESTS IN VARIOUS ISLAMIC COUNTRIES WILL BE PART OF THE PLAN BY OBAMA TO ANNOUNCE A GLOBAL EMERGENCY AND DECLARE A PEACETIME MARTIAL LAW IN THE USA.
SPECIALLY, ADDING MOSLEMS FROM MANY NATIONS LIVING INSIDE AMERICA - WITH OBAMA AND HIS TEAM’S URGING AND COORDINATION BEHIND THE SCENES, TO THE MIX.
USING THIS SAME VIDEO AS A LAME EXCUSE TO DEMONSTRATE IN PROTEST IN AMERICAN STREETS.
ALL ORGANIZED BY THE MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD IN CONJUNCTION -THROUGH THE WHITE HOUSE - WITH ISLAMIC IRANIAN ACTIVISTS WHO HAVE EMBEDDED THEMSELVES THROUGHOUT OUR UNIVERSITIES.
ADD THE INDIGENOUS, TRADITIONAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN MOSLEM ORGANIZATIONS TO THIS CONTRIVED “UPRISING” AND FORGET ABOUT HOLDING ELECTIONS IN NOVEMBER 2012 OR ANY TIME SOON!
MARK THESE WORDS and watch out!
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2012/09/alan-warning-and-netty-news-reads.html
Agreed.
We must remember: the most inflammatory of the ‘Danish’ cartoons was created by an Imam for exactly the same purpose - to drum up rage.
This is no different.
No they wanted to blame it on the persecuted Egyptian Christian Copts.
Just as Fast and Furious was designed to get rid of the Second Amendment, it makes sense that this film was aimed at our First Amendment rights.
I read that link.
Chilling. And all too plausible.
c. Also a call to action to limit the 1st Amendment..
crap may be pink. but you can’t deny crap regadless of color or shade.
So - with my Gene Siskel hat firmly in place - I rate this down there with Plan 9 From Outer Space as the worst 'film' ever. It's: Five Thumbs Down [I borrowed Ebert's chubby hands ;)]
ps: What's "offensive" about this 'film' is that somewhere a Tree died to make it possible.
Go to The Blaze. They’re the only one with balls to post a link. And get ready to laugh. It’s really baaaaaaaad. (funny bad)
“Bingo!” Go collect yer winnings...;-)
“Why did the feds find the guy and point him out so quickly?”
Who did they find???
“Why were our embassies unguarded?”
Libya - The muder of the ambassador was conducted on released information to the public, regarding his attending an opening of a new “Cultural Center”, and the “embassy” he was attack in was actually a “consulate” or annex facility, with only a walls and slightly beefed up controlled access in and out of that facility...The main “embassy” is in Tripoli...FYI...
Egypt - The main embassy has been there for quite some time, the Marines stationed there are basically held to normal ROE, and the authority and standing orders from the Ambassador...They are probably NOT going to do much other than cover the evacuation, if need be, of embassy personnel and the Ambassador...
Yemen - That is a main embassy, from what I understand, the facility is always under some sort of threat or action...Al Quida is very strong in that area, and it didn’t take much on their part to get the people in a froth...What resembles a Yemini government IS actively prosecuting the elements of Al Quida it can find on its own, and is minimally, if not very effective in that effort overall...But the Yamini Government IS trying, but maybe not too hard from my point of view...
Today we will probably see more and more unrest and attacks on embassies and consulates around the entire globe on our diplomatic corp, and Americans traveling and living abroad...
I would say this is all going to continue well into next year, through our elections and as long as they can sustain the interst of the people who are not necessarily involved directly with Al Quida, only the mindless goobs who they can exploit...With hopes that “we” retaliate and repel boarders at some point with deadly force...
That is the goal of Al Quida, to get us to react and defend ourselves, to which the world community will condem us more than the folks committing the crimes against us to begin with...
Remember in football, it is not the initial foul that draws some penalty flags, it is the push and shoving afterwards that sometimes gets more attention from the Refs than the initial foul...
So now the world is waiting to see if once again, a democrat party president will falter and prove their fecklessness in dealing with an act of war, or surpise them with a military reaction of sime sort...
Which in this case will be a win-win for Al Quida and the rest of the world which wants the US to be taken further down a notch in world prestige and diplomatic/political credibility...
Just my opinion...
“Why weren’t they warned of possible danger?”
Apparently they were, from some leaks found out late yesterday...Something like a 48 hour notice from what I heard...
“What about the Marines and rubber bullets?”
I have to check, but I don’t believe Marines use “rubber bullets”...Now the indigienous police forces outside the control of our diplomatic corp are not under our direction, and they do in some cases fire tear gas, rubber bullets and throw back rocks, thrown at them, which I did see to some sense of humor in that clip I saw yesterday...So the overall debacle has its feckless moments on both sides of this equation...
“Why is Hillary focusing on the film and not the violence of the muslim extremists?”
Do you want the scary answer??? Because she is a drunken blithering idiot who could not hit the ground if she fell, if the need arose...
And so on...hehehe
History...
It’s like a reichstag, only started by a different group of malcontents.
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