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The online 14-minute clip of a purportedly anti-Islamic movie that sparked protests at the US embassy in Cairo and and the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya is now looking like it could have been ginned up by someone sitting a basement with cheap dubbing software.
the fact that almost every instance of language referring to Islam or Muhammad in the film has been dubbed in. That is, mouths are mouthing but the words you're hearing don't match.
A man named "Sam Bacile" was identified as being the writer and producer. He claimed to be an Israeli citizen. The Israelis say they have no record of him.
There is no record of a "Sam Bacile" living in California, and his strange insistence on the fact that he was Jewish and that he had exclusively Jewish funders for his film in an interview with the Associated Press now looks like something of a red flag.
Among the overdubbed words is "Mohammed," suggesting that the footage was taken from a film about something else entirely. The footage also suggests multiple video sources — there are obvious and jarring discrepancies among actors and locations... whoever made (it) may well have made use of little more than the standard editing software Final Cut Pro — far from a cast and crew of over 100 and millions of dollars.
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
There's only one logical conclusion to this plot...
Y'ALL BEEN TROLLED!!!
Yep, it's right there. Some techie with the necessary equipment got hacked off at the Middle East and America and decided to set off a conflict from the comfort of their mother's basement, hiding behind an elaborate maze of proxies and laughing their __ off at the government of all concerned parties.
Well played, sir. Well played indeed.edit on 15-9-2012 by AfterInfinity because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
There's only one logical conclusion to this plot...
Y'ALL BEEN TROLLED!!!
Well played, sir. Well played indeed.
Although it was posted to YouTube in July, the film only attracted attention in the Middle East after an unknown person recently dubbed it into Egyptian Arabic. That translation, which the man who identified himself as Bacile told the AP was accurate, has been broadcast repeatedly on Egyptian media in recent weeks after being seized upon by extreme Islamists who dislike the presence of the country’s Coptic Christians.
This seems more like the work of one dumbass individual, who's sole intent was to incite rage and anger from one specific target towards another.
ONE PERSON playing TWO NATIONS off of each other.
WHY???
Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by stupid girl
This seems more like the work of one dumbass individual, who's sole intent was to incite rage and anger from one specific target towards another.
ONE PERSON playing TWO NATIONS off of each other.
WHY???
It was probably the radical Muslims in control of the country who wish to garner support for their cause that dubbed in the hateful speech in….that makes the most sense to me.
Most decent people in the ME don’t want more conflict and they’re tired of the extreme theocratic rule they’ve been subjected to. This seems like an attempt to rally their people behind the theocracy and strengthen their rule.
edit on 15-9-2012 by seabag because: (no reason given)
I guess whomever we're dealing with has an itchy trigger finger and is simply ready to git'r done and "begin the end", so to speak.
Man named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula found at address where phone number was listed - but denied he was Bacile
Nakoula, who told the AP that he was logistics manager for the film, was under requirements to provide authorities with records of all his bank and business accounts.
The Wall Street Journal identified the filmmaker as Sam Bacile, an Israeli-American real estate developer. The Journal reported that, in its telephone interview with Bacile, he characterized his film as "a political effort to call attention to the hypocrisies of Islam."