Real man behind pseudonym of Sam Bacile traced
by News Desk – 14 September, 2012 – Blitz

Finally United States’ authorities and its intelligence agencies have identified the real culprit, the director of the most controversial anti-Islam movie named innocence of Muslims. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula used pseudonym and falsely claimed to be an Israeli Jew. Police rushed to the residence of the producer of the movie – Nakoula Basseley Nakoula as well as a production company named “Media for Christ” on Hamilton Road in Duarte, California to keep watch. According to police sources, “Media for Christ” was affiliated with making the film that has been a trigger for anti-US violence and protest in several countries.

Basseley Nakoula aka Sam Basil pleaded no contest in 2010 to federal bank fraud charges in California and was ordered to pay more than US$ 790,000 in restitution and serve 21 months in prison. Meanwhile, Nakoula told the Associated Press in an interview outside Los Angeles that he was manager for the company that produced “Innocence of Muslims.” He denied he directed the film and said he knew the self-described filmmaker, identified only as “Sam Bacile.”

According to California law enforcement officials, Nakoula, who is also known to authorities as Bacily Nakoula, was frightened for his life and “scared of retaliation” against his family. But the cell phone number that the US media contacted to reach the filmmaker who identified himself as “Sam Bacile” traced to the same Southern California address where they found Basseley Nakoula. Following this discovery, law enforcing agencies were sure of the real identity of Sam Bacile and were also convinced that it was none but Nakoula Basseley. Nakoula was the main culprit behind the entire incident. Several actors in the movie say they were duped, and are now distancing themselves from the film that was cited as a spark to the violence in Libya that resulted in the murder of the United States’ ambassador to that country.

Though Sam Basile claimed himself to be a citizen of Israel, it was later confirmed by the Israeli authorities that such claim of the man was “totally false”. It was also confirmed when FoxNews.com’s research on public and private databases, business filings, and people finding services came up empty on that name. The Associated Press first reported that they spoke with Sam Bacile via phone as he was remaining incognito in an undisclosed location following the violence in Libya. “Bacile” said that he was sorry for the death of the U.S Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and blamed his death on the “no good” security systems in place at the embassies. When Bacile’s legitimacy began to be questioned, the AP traced the phone number they had called to Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a Coptic Christian in California. An attorney for Nakoula, listed as James Henderson Sr., did not respond to FoxNews.com’s request for comment. On his legal website, the Santa Monica-based lawyer is described as a specialist in “white collar criminal defense and federal criminal violations.”

Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Fla., who burned Qurans on the ninth anniversary of 9/11, said he spoke with the movie’s director on the phone on September 12. He said he has not met the filmmaker in person, but the man contacted him a few weeks ago about promoting the movie.

Pastor Terry Jones said, “I have not met him. Sam Bacile, that is not his real name,” Jones said. “I just talked to him on the phone. He is definitely in hiding and does not reveal his identity. He was quite honestly fairly shook up concerning the events and what is happening. A lot of people are not supporting him.”

Another of the film’s promoters, Steve Klein 62-year-old Vietnam Veteran who resides in rural California and heads up a group called Concerned Citizens for the First Amendment, which is on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of California Active Anti-Muslim Groups, told reporters that he did not know Steve Bacile’s “real name,” and that they only met once and spoke for about an hour. In 1977 he founded Klein founded Courageous Christians United, which has reportedly staged protests outside mosques and abortion clinics.

“He’s not Israeli… His name is a pseudonym,” Klein told the magazine. “All these Middle Eastern folks I work with have pseudonyms. I doubt he’s Jewish. I would suspect this is a disinformation campaign.”

Doubts mounted as well about the provenance of the film, Innocence of Muslims. Several Hollywood and California film industry groups and permit agencies said they had no records of the project. It was also learnt from various sources that some Americans from the Middle Eastern countries had funded this project.

Meanwhile, it is also learnt that the same film was released in a small cinema hall in Los Angeles last year, when it was named as ‘The Innocence of Bin Laden’. But the movie failed to draw more than 10 audiences during the single show, and the authorities of ‘Vine Theater’ cinema hall in Los Angeles had to pull down the movie from any further shows.
Bacile’s film was dubbed into Egyptian Arabic by someone he doesn’t know, but he speaks enough Arabic to confirm that the translation is accurate. It was made in three months in the summer of 2011, with 59 actors and about 45 people behind the camera. It is also learnt that a large number of female and male actors in the so-called movie were casted from American under-ground porn film industry. One of the male actors named Tim Dax had earlier worked for gay porn films. …source

Congress was warned about Libya last month
Posted By Kevin Baron Thursday, September 13, 2012 – 11:57 AM Share
While Washington vacationed in August, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service issued a now prescient-sounding report warning that Libya’s security concerns were an “immediate priority” that might require far more attention and resources than the United States had given it.

“Libya’s security remains a function of Libyans’ self-restraint rather than the capability of security authorities,” CRS warned.

That self-restraint broke down severely this week as, according to U.S. officials, an apparently coordinated attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi emerged from a crowded protest, leading to the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and others. It was the apex of a string of concerning violent incidents dating back months.

The author of the report, Christopher Blanchard, specialist in Middle Eastern affairs, on Thursday told the E-Ring, “Security has deteriorated since the election [in July] and the government has not appeared able to stop attacks on religious buildings or an ongoing string of assassination attacks on former regime security officials. The attacks on the U.S. offices in Benghazi were the latest and most severe in a series of attacks on foreign diplomatic facilities and international organizations in Libya.”

“This incident underscores what the State Department itself said in its late August travel warning: militia groups outside of state control are active in Libya and pose a direct threat to Libyans and foreigners.”

According to Blanchard’s report, which is titled Libya: Transition and U.S. Policy and dated August 9, 2012, Libyan security is severely hampered by several factors, as the country continues to emerge from civil war and moves haltingly toward unifying its governance and security institutions and ad-hoc groups.

U.S. officials and outside experts, CRS stated, already harbored significant concerns over loose security at the country’s borders and “hundreds of suspected weapons sites,” in addition to massive proliferation of small arms, shoulder-fired MANPADS rockets, and “heavy weaponry” in and just outside of Libya.

The combination of those factors, CRS surmised, specifically worried counterterrorism and arms-trafficking experts, citing “unexploded ordnance, explosive remnants, and looted weaponry.”

The precarious security situation is made worse by the existence and state-reliance on militia groups across the country, only some of which have willingly integrated, to various degrees, with official security forces.

“Security concerns remain the immediate priority, as a series of isolated armed conflicts and attacks on international targets in several cities have raised serious questions about the ability of the interim authorities to ensure order,” wrote Blanchard. “As of August 2012, militia groups remained active and influential, with some acknowledging and participating in government efforts to assert central security authority. Public displays of weapons, attacks on international targets, and isolated armed clashes underscore the threats posed by some groups. Security officials continue to rely on irregular forces to provide security in much of the country.”

The report continues, “Libyans’ initial euphoria at the downfall of Muammar al Qadhafi has settled into an uneasy mix of hope and fear about the country’s future.”

By August, CRS concluded, “popular patience has waned.”

On Thursday, Blanchard said Libya’s limited “ability to provide security creates a dilemma for U.S. decision makers.” If the U.S. targets “hostile groups” or even provides direct security support for the Libyan government to do so, it may “inflame local opinion and undermine the image of the recently elected government among some Libyans.”

And any expansion of U.S. assistance would take time and money, both of which are “politically controversial…in both countries.” …more

Mr Blowback rising in Benghazi
By Pepe Escobar – 13 September, 2012 – Asia Times

“Daddy, what is blowback?”

Here’s a fable to tell our children, by the fire, in a not so-distant post-apocalyptic, dystopian future.

Once upon a time, during George “Dubya” Bush’s “war on terra”, the Forces of Good in Afghanistan captured – and duly tortured – one evil terrorist, Abu Yahya al-Libi.

Abu Yahya al-Libi was, of course, Libyan. He slaved three years in the bowels of Bagram prison near Kabul, but somehow managed to escape that supposedly impregnable fortress in July 2005.

At the time, the Forces of Good were merrily in bed with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Libya – whose intelligence services, to the delight of the Bush administration, were doing their nastiest to exterminate or at least isolate al-Qaeda-style Salafi-jihadis of the al-Libi kind.

But, then, in 2011, the Forces of Good, under new administration, decided it was time to bury the oh so passe “war on terra” and dance to a new, more popular groove; humanitarian intervention, also characterized as “kinetic military action”.

So al-Libi was back from the dead – now fighting side by side with the Forces of Good to topple (and eventually snuff out) “evil” Col Gaddafi. Al-Libi had become a “freedom fighter” – even though he was openly calling for Libya to become an Islamic Emirate.

The honeymoon didn’t last long.

In September 2012, for the first time in three months, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, aka The Surgeon, released a 42-minute video special to “celebrate” the 11th anniversary of 9/11, finally admitting the snuffing out of his number two.

His number two was none other than Abu Yahya al-Libi – targeted by one of US President Barack Obama’s cherished drones in Waziristan on June 4.

An immediate effect of al-Zawahiri’s video was that an angry armed mob, led by Islamist outfit Ansar al Sharia, set fire to the US consulate in Benghazi. The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, was killed. It didn’t matter that Stevens happened to be a hero of the “NATO rebels” who had “liberated” Libya – notoriously sprinkled with Salafi-jihadis of the al-Libi kind.

Stevens was rewarded by Washington with the ambassadorial post only after “evil” Gaddafi was finally sodomized, lynched and killed by, what else, an angry mob.

So finally the blowback serpent was able to bite its own tail.

Terra, terra, terra

What happened in Benghazi may have been just an out-of-control protest against a crude, amateur, made-in-California movie produced and directed by an Israeli-American real estate developer and certified Islamophobe (an identity now being reported as a guise), financed with US$5 million from unidentified Jewish donors, depicting Islam “as a cancer” and Prophet Muhammad as a womanizer, a pedophile and most of all, a fraud. The movie was duly promoted by wacko Florida pastor and Koran-burning freak Terry Jones.

Yet the killing of the US ambassador in Libya is just an hors d’oeuvre to what may happen in Syria – where scores of “freedom fighters” supported by the CIA, the Turks and the House of Saud are al-Qaeda-linked, either via the supposedly reformist Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) or acronym-infested subcontracting gangs such as Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) or al-Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM).

So how will Washington “bring the perpetrators to justice” in Libya? After all this is the same gang that was hailed as “heroes” when they sodomized, lynched and snuffed out “evil” Gaddafi.

Asia Times Online has been warning for over a year about blowback in Libya – and potentially in Syria, where medieval Saudi sheikhs frantically issue fatwas legitimating a widespread massacre of “infidel” Alawites. This is all a rerun of the same old 1980s’ Afghan jihad movie; first you call them “freedom fighters”, but when they attack us they revert to being “terrorists”.

Now we have NATO-armed Salafi-jihadis in Libya, and House of Saud-financed and Turkey-based Salafi-jihadis in Syria – deploying “terra” antics such as suicide bombers to bring down the Assad regime – all wired up and ready to roll. It certainly adds a new meaning to Obama’s “kinetic action” gig. …more

If it were not so tragic it would be laughable that US foreign policy can be blown like a leaf in the wind by a fanatical Zionist-Christian Pastor and Moronic movie producer. Really? they managed to push US foreign policy to the ‘tipping point’ for an entire region with a ‘no-budget’ movie. Do Blasphemers and Apostates start ‘unholy wars’. Phlipn – out.

Quran-burning Pastor Terry Jones promotes anti-Islam film
Voltaire Network – 13 September, 2012

Pastor Terry Jones, whose Quran-torching escapade in 2011 brought him hatred in the Islamic world, has reportedly promoted Innocence of Muslims, a controversial low-budget movie that sparked anti-American protests in Libya and Egypt.

Innocence of Muslims’ director Sam Bacile said he had received some $5 million from a “hundred of Jews” to shoot the film and called Islam “a cancer.” However, he denounced allegations that his movie was religious, saying it was a political one.

Pastor Terry Jones announced he was going to show an Innocence of Muslims fragment during a prayer service.

In 2011, Pastor Jones rose to prominence after staging several public Quran burnings. The first of these dubious events ran off in March 2011, triggering a wave of unrest in Afghanistan, which claimed the lives of more than a hundred people.

Mass protests erupted Tuesday in Egypt’s capital of Cairo and in Libya’s Benghazi. In Cairo, demonstrators climbed the wall of the US Embassy to then shred and burn the American flag. In Benghazi, several armed men assailed the US Consulate, killing the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. …source

Russia fears ‘chaos’ after US mission killings: Putin
13 September, 2012 – The Daily Star

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday the Middle East region was at risk of descending into “chaos” following a deadly attack on the US mission in Libya and violence in Egypt and Yemen.

“We are afraid that the region may descend into chaos, which is essentially what is happening already,” the Russian leader said in comments broadcast on state television from his summer residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

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U.S. embassies attacked in Yemen, Egypt after Libya envoy killed
13 September, 2012 – By Mohammed Ghobari, Edmund Blair – Reuters

SANAA/CAIRO: Demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassies in Yemen and Egypt on Thursday in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam and American warships headed to Libya after the death of the U.S. ambassador there in related violence earlier in the week.

Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators broke through the main gate of the heavily fortified compound in eastern Sanaa, shouting “We sacrifice ourselves for you, Messenger of God”. Earlier they smashed windows of security offices outside the embassy and burned cars.

“We can see a fire inside the compound and security forces are firing in the air. The demonstrators are fleeing and then charging back,” one witness told Reuters. A security source said at least 15 people were wounded, some by bullets. An embassy spokesman said its personnel were reported to be safe.

In Egypt, protesters hurled stones at a police cordon around the U.S. embassy in central Cairo after climbing into the embassy and tearing down the American flag. The state news agency said 13 people were injured in violence which erupted on Wednesday night after protests on Tuesday.

Islamist gunmen staged a military-style assault on the U.S. consulate and a safe house refuge in Benghazi, eastern Libya on Tuesday. The U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died in the assault, carried out with guns, mortars and grenades. Eight Libyans were injured.

U.S. President Barack Obama vowed to “bring to justice” those responsible and the U.S. military moved two navy destroyers towards the Libyan coast, in what a U.S. official said was a move to give the administration flexibility for any future action against Libyan targets.

Obama said security was being increased at U.S. diplomatic posts around the globe and on Thursday the U.S. consulate in Berlin was partially evacuated after an employee fell ill on opening a suspicious envelope.

About 1,000 Bangladeshi Islamists tried to march on the U.S. embassy in Dhaka after protests earlier in the week outside U.S. missions in Tunisia, Sudan and Morocco.

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If a Muslim producer had made a movie in the US trashing the Zionists, the ADL would have already sent hit squads after everyone involved. Congress would be hostage in the election year. A Muslim movie producer would have never made it off the launch pad, because Muslims in America are systematically denied even their basic civil rights.

Exactly what did the USG think was going to happen? Explode and implode Arab countries in ‘democracy wars’ in order to bolster US hegemony over Middle East oil? Deny Arab Rights on a Global Scale and use ‘bought off’ Monarchs and Tin-cup Dictators who are hopelessly hooked on a perpetual supply of arms to keep them in power. Secretary Clinton sets the tone for American dissonance saying, “How can this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction?”. One of her Ambassadors and his colleagues lay dead and with the Consulate ablaze in Benghazi. You may be that incompetent Secretary Clinton but you are certainly not that naive. This is an easy one to figure out Madam Secretary, the only ones you fool with you bull-shit narrative of America-the-Benevolent are the ignorant US public you and the complicit US media machine keep that way.

One day it won’t just be Arabs trashing Embassies and Attacking Our Ambassadors, it will American Citizens trashing and attacking Police Stations and Federal Buildings all Across the US. Not because anyone really wants it this way, but because the Wealthy and Powerful have stolen Democracy from the American People and now they are trying for the ‘hard sale’ of ‘US Democratic’ values and ideal(gag-me) in the Middle East and the Arabs aren’t having any of it. Oh don’t get me wrong the Arabs want democracy, just not the one that is tailored to suit the US Imperialists who keep blowing shit up and assassinating people with Drones. Phlipn – out.

Bahrain: Detained Bahraini activist Zainab Al-Khawaja faces 13 cases
14 September, 2012 – IFEX – Bahrain Center for Human Rights

(BCHR/IFEX) – The Gulf Center for Human Rights and Bahrain Center for Human Rights express their grave concern over the information received regarding the ill-treatment of detained human rights defender Zainab Al-Khawaja in prison in Bahrain, as well as the continued exploitation of the judicial system to punish human rights defenders and hinder their peaceful and legitimate human rights work. Al-Khawaja is facing up to 13 cases, in addition to a 3 months’ imprisonment sentence issued against her on trumped-up charges.

By not taking enough measures to prevent torture on its territory, Bahrain has violated the entire Convention against torture, which they signed and ratified in 1998. The state of Bahrain is furthermore continuously ignoring the UN “Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners”, which since its creation in 1955, sets out the minimum standards regarding for example clothing, hygiene, food, inspections and medical services for prisoners, which creates very severe consequences for prisoners like Zainab Al-Khawaja.

Chain of judicial harassment against detained human rights defender Zainab Al-Khawaja and ill-treatment in prison

Activist and human rights defender Zainab Al-Khawaja has been detained since 2 August 2012 following her arrest while protesting alone at the Al Qadam roundabout. Her leg was in a cast following an injury she sustained previously when security forces shot her with tear gas canisters at close range.

Zainab Al-Khawaja currently has thirteen cases against her, 7 of which are currently in court.

In September 2012 alone, the court will be holding sessions for three of the charges that Zainab faces, notably:

1- Damaging the King’s photo on May 2012, for which the next hearing session will be on 26 September 2012. She is currently in detention for this case.

2- Participating in a demonstration that was not previously authorized and entering a restricted zone, which is the “pearl roundabout area,” in February 2012. The next hearing for this case will be on 25 September 2012.

3- Assembling on AbuSaiba roundabout in December 2011, and inciting hatred against the regime, for which the next hearing will be on 26 September 2012.

Zainab has already been sentenced in several other cases, resulting in fines and prison time. She has also been detained for several weeks on several occasions, and in one case, she was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment on 22 May 2012 for charges of assembly and disrupting traffic in Aali in November 2011. On that occasion, she stood to stop the riot police from attacking the mourners of a man killed by the regime of Bahrain (see video online). On 10 October 2012, the court of appeal will be hearing this case as the sentence has not yet been carried. On 16 October 2012, the court of appeal will hold session on the case of insulting an official at the military hospital, for which the court has previously acquitted Zainab but the public prosecution has appealed against the acquittal. On 1 November 2012, the court will hold a session on the case of disrupting traffic near the financial harbour in April 2011. …more

A heartbreaking story from Jau prison in #Bahrain: Rape of a detainee by a prison officer
14 September, 2012 – Twitlonger – Zahraa

On one night the officer in charge came to the prison, opened the cells and started threatening the prisoners there, it was something unusual but the detainees stayed silent while he shouts. They didn’t know that he was checking the detainees for his pervert needs.

Then he ordered to close all the cells but one, he chose a good looking young man and ordered him to take off his cloths, the detainee refused to do that, this happened in front of all the detainees there! The officer insisted and asked him again and again for several times and the detainee kept refusing. The officer then ordered the other policemen to take the detainee out of the cell, his cell mates tried to prevent them from doing that but they couldn’t stop them.

The officer raped the young man in the prison and all other prisoners could hear his screams for help! The other detainees went mad and in an attempt to make him stop they started to make noises and hit their heads in the doors, one of them was hysterical and passed out while trying to break the door.

The young man was out of his cell bleeding, other detainees where screaming and crying for help, “Allahu Akbar | God is great” they shouted but there’s no one who could help!

The prison officer didn’t get enough! He ordered to punish the detainees by bringing another guy to rape him! Once he opened another cell, there was a huge fuss and the police used force to make the detainees calm down. He also used special forces to interfere and beat the detainees, and then they took the injured ones to get medical treatment in another prison – Alqalaa – medical facility.

The detainees started a hunger strike to make the prison authority know that this is not acceptable. They were punished by cutting off the electricity and water, and preventing them from having family visits for several weeks. …source