The Ugly Underbelly of Hollywood’s Trash Productions – Tabloid Style

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