{"id":9334,"date":"2012-09-13T15:47:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T22:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=9334"},"modified":"2012-09-13T15:47:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T22:47:21","slug":"feds-identify-anti-muslim-filmmaker-aka-scapegoat-being-blamed-for-embassy-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/feds-identify-anti-muslim-filmmaker-aka-scapegoat-being-blamed-for-embassy-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Identify Anti-Muslim Filmmaker Aka Scapegoat Being Blamed for Embassy Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputies have already been <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2012\/09\/fearful-anti-muslim-filmmaker-calls-authorities-to-his-home.html\">called out to his home<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/widget.newsinc.com\/single.html?WID=2&amp;VID=23807634&amp;freewheel=69016&amp;sitesection=latimes\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\" height=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If anything happens to this guy invoking his first amendment rights, his blood will be on the governments hands.<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"egypt riots anti-muslim film\" src=\"http:\/\/cbswashington.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/151961030.jpg?resize=285%2C190\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"190\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2012\/09\/13\/us-identifies-anti-muslim-filmmaker\/\">CBS DC<\/a><br \/>\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Federal authorities have identified a Coptic Christian in southern California who is on probation after his conviction for financial crimes as the key figure behind the anti-Muslim film that ignited mob violence against U.S. embassies across the Mideast, a U.S. law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday.<br \/>\nThe official said authorities had concluded that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was behind \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Innocence of Muslims,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a film that denigrated Islam and the prophet Muhammad and sparked protests earlier this week in Egypt, Libya and most recently in Yemen. It was not immediately clear whether Nakoula was the target of a criminal investigation or part of the broader investigation into the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Libya during a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed Thursday that Justice Department officials were investigating the deaths, which occurred during an attack on the American mission in Benghazi.<\/p>\n<p>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 man who initially told the AP he was the film\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s writer and director. But Bacile turned out to be a false identity, and the AP traced a cellphone number Bacile used to a southern California house where it located and interviewed Nakoula. <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2012\/09\/13\/us-identifies-anti-muslim-filmmaker\/\">&#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputies have already been called out to his home&#8230;. If anything happens to this guy invoking his first amendment rights, his blood will be on the governments hands. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230; CBS DC WASHINGTON (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Federal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[13036,569],"tags":[18627,18710,18570,368,18564,2699,2511,18712,18590,18713,18714,57,18640,62,18706,18707,892,70,3273,18708,658,18711,18709,18646,593],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}