US Chairman Joint Chief of Staff, Gen.Martin Demsey tried to reason with the hatred mongering preacher Terry Jones of Florida, not to hurt the feelings of Muslims.
US Army has many Muslims soldiers, like Capt.Saqib Khan, who have gave his life defending US Freedoms. He is buried in the Arlington National Cemetery.
Before he was involved in the making of a noxious video that provided an excuse for anti-American riots in the Middle East, and before he was convicted of federal bank fraud, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was arrested on charges relating to the making of angel dust.
Court records reviewed by Danger Room show that Nakoula and a co-defendant were brought before the Los Angeles County Superior Courthouse in Downey, California on April 15, 1997. They were charged with possessing the narcotic’s chemical precursors with “the intent to manufacture phencyclidine,” otherwise known as angel dust or PCP.
In the latest in a series of odd revelations about the man thought to be at center of a viral video, “The Innocence of Muslims,” which has been publicly seized upon by people in Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia as a reason to attack U.S. embassies. At least four American government employees have been killed during the confrontations. And that’s brought enormous scrutiny to Nakoula, an Egyptian immigrant and gas station owner, who has alternatively confirmed and denied a role in the making of “Innocence.”
In recent days, we’ve learned that Nakoula used 14 different aliases — including “P.J. Tobacco” and “Kritbag Difrat” — in a complex check kiting scheme. We’ve learned that Nakoula was sentenced to 21 months in federal custody for the affair. According to The Smoking Gun, Nakoula was releasedfrom the the United States Penitentiary in Lompoc, California in September, 2010. He spent the following nine months in and out of a halfway house in Long Beach. Unnamed officials tell ABC News he wrote the script for the film, which depicts the prophet Muhammad as a thug and a child molester,while in prison.
The punishment was relatively gentle, even though it wasn’t Nakoula’s first encounter with the law. That’s because Nakoula had decided to become a federal informant.
“I am sorry for what happened. Now I know it was wrong. I decide to cooperate with the government to retrieve some of those mistakes,” Nakoula told Judge Christina Snyder in June of 2010, according to a sentencing transcript obtained by The Smoking Gun.
The man Nakoula agreed to help the feds catch was Eiad Salameh, the ringleader of the check kiting scheme and “a notorious fraudster who has been tracked for more than a decade by state and federal investigators,” the Smoking Gun says. “In his debriefings, Nakoula said he was recruited as a ‘runner’ by Salameh, who pocketed the majority of money generated by the bank swindles.”
Because of the promised help, because of his many ailments (including Hepatitis C and diabetes) and maybe because of a friendly letter from a friend calling Nakoula “a God-fearing man whose first priority is his family,” Bakoula was sentenced to just 21 months in prison.
That’s in spie of his previous arrests. In August of 1991, he was convicted on two counts of selling watered-down gasoline. And then came the arrest for PCP manufacturing in 1997. A local judge found there was probable cause for the case to continue against Nakoula and a co-defendant, Khaled Yameen Abraham, on August 6th of that year. Nakoula and Abraham were also briefly charged with conspiracy.
Three months later, Abraham was convicted on the PCP charge. Nakoula, on the other hand, was not. Nearly five years later, the case against him was dismissed, for reasons unknown.
According to The Daily Beast, Nakoula and Abraham weren’t just attempting to make PCP. The news site claims that the pair were arrested for trying to mass-produce methamphetamine. Nakoula was arrested on March 27, 1997, according to the Beast, with $45,000 in hundreds and twenties in a paper lunch bag on the seat beside him. Abraham’s house in Lake Elsinore contained 30 boxes of pseudoephedrine, meth’s central ingredient. Another 99 cases were allegedly found at the storage facility. Danger Room hasn’t been able to confirm this account. But it’s entirely possible that Abraham and Nakoula were simultaneously busted for being both PCP and meth makers.
One big fraud? Questions over whether ‘$5million’ film that portrayed Mohammed (PBUH) as {blasphemous comment removed by PTT} AND the producer behind it are fake
‘Innocence of Muslims’ led to protests across Egypt and Libya on Tuesday
Producer said he was an Israeli Jew living in California named Sam Bacile
But film’s consultant, Steve Klein, said the man was using a pseudonym (fake name of an Israeli Jew)
Amid concerns over the filmmakers’ safety, Klein: ‘I sleep with a 12 gauge shotgun by me and my wife sleeps with a 38 caliber pistol next to her’
Also doubts over veracity of film after poorly dubbed scenes and editing
Cast and crew distanced themselves from film saying they were ‘misled’
Unapologetic: Steve Klein, an Israeli-American Jew was a consultant on the film that sparked outrage in Libya and Egypt
– but said the filmmaker worked under a pseudonym
A search is on for the man behind the ‘blasphemous’ film that branded Mohammed (PBUH) (deleted by PTT, blasphemous comments in the UK Daily Mail Article) and sparked deadly protests after records apparently reveal he does not exist.
Questions have also arisen about the veracity of the film itself after a trailer shows it is poorly over-dubbed and edited – despite claims it cost $5 million to make.
The producer, whose movie led to demonstrations that left the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other American officials dead on Tuesday, has is an Israeli Jew named Sam Bacile living in California.
And it appears he fooled the 80 cast and crew members who worked on the film, Innocence of Muslims, who claimed in a statement that they were misled by the producer.
‘The entire cast and crew are extremely upset and feel taken advantage of by the producer,’ they said. ‘We are 100% not behind this film and were grossly misled about its intent and purpose.
‘We are shocked by the drastic re-writes of the script and lies that were told to all involved. We are deeply saddened by the tragedies that have occurred.’
Fury: The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, right, died amid violent protests against the film
‘Bacile’ said that the two-hour movie cost $5 million and was financed with the help of more than 100 Jewish donors, who believe the film will help his native land Israel, by exposing Islam’s flaws to the world.
Yet the film’s trailer, which is on YouTube, show poor production values that call that tall expenditure into question.
Klein, who now claims to be a Christian activist in California, said ‘Bacile’ contacted him with help on the film as he leads anti-Islam protests. ‘The Middle East Christian and Jewish communities trust me,’ he said.
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Klein added he knew little about the filmmaker, but was certain Israel and the radical Christian pastor Terry Jones were involved.
‘His name is a pseudonym,’ he said. ‘All these Middle Eastern folks I work with have pseudonyms. I would suspect this is a disinformation campaign.’
Jeffrey Goldberg, who wrote the article for the National, said he will take the interview with Klein ‘with a grain of salt’ – yet he still has nothing to prove the name is anything but a pseudonym.
Fury: The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames after a mob attacked the base
The strange turn of events come after a 13-minute trailer for his film, The Innocence of Muslims, was dubbed in Arabic last week and immediately sparked outrage in Egypt.
Despite ‘Bacile’ claiming it cost $5 million, the film showcases an amateur cast performing a wooden dialogue of insults disguised as revelations about Muhammad (PBUH), whose obedient followers (Sahaba) are presented as a cadre of goons.
In an original English version and one dubbed into Arabic, Muhammad(PBUH) is depicted (Blasphemous comments by Klein deleted by PTT).
Matters came to a head yesterday when hundreds of Islamic protesters marched to the US Embassy in downtown Cairo and circled the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
Amid the demonstration it is believed a group of attackers took the opportunity to target the embassy, releasing grenades, opening fire and killing Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other officials.
Violence: A vehicle sits smoldering in flames after being set on fire inside the US consulate compound in Benghazi late yesterday.
KLEIN IS UNREPENTENT AND ARROGANT-A JEW TURNED “CHRISTIAN” TRYING TO START A WAR BETWENN US AND ISLAMIC NATIONS-HE IS AN INCENDIARY AGENT PROVOCATEUR.
But speaking to MailOnline, Klein, the Israeli Jewish activist, claiming to be a Christian said of the death: ‘It is not our fault, we told the truth’.
He said that he did not feel guilty for the murder of John Christopher Stevens and that the mob who carried it out were to blame as they were following “Islam’s a violent teachings.”A patent lie invented by hate mongers and bigots.
KLEIN IS A HATE MONGER AND DOES NOT REPRESENT AMERICAN VALUES.
THERE ARE NEARLY TWO MILLION MUSLIMS LIVING PEACEFULLY IN AMERICA AND MANY SERVE IN THE ARMED FORCES AND THERE ARE NEARLY 2000 MASJIDS IN AMERICA.
Klein said that the film was designed to stop the Muslim population in America reaching 10 per cent as they would then ‘work together and attack their host country’.
He said: ‘I feel bad for the death of the ambassador – he didn’t do anything to anybody – but it’s not our fault. We didn’t want anybody to get killed but on the other hand the truth had to come out.
‘We told the truth and these people reacted the way that their Prophet (PBUH) wanted to them to react – by killing people.
Protests are continuing in front of the US Embassy in Cairo, one day after thousands of Egyptians demonstrated at the Embassy compound
KLEIN HAS NO CONCIENCE OR REMORSE
‘Do I feel guilt? Yes, but not for me, I feel it for those that did this. Do I feel shame? Yes, but not for me. Killing this man fits in with their legal and ethical standpoint.’
Outrage: Pastor Terry Jones, who inflamed anger in the Muslim world in 2010 with plans to burn the Koran, said he had promoted Innocence of Muslims
Mr Klein, who now calls himself Christian is now head of a group called Concerned Citizens for the First Amendment, said that he was prepared for a backlash against him personally.
He said: ‘I am not afraid and if these people tried to kill me they would not be the first. I sleep with a 12 gauge shotgun by me and my wife sleeps with a 38 caliber pistol next to her.
‘I live in rural California with lots and lots of guns – I am not afraid to stand up for what I believe in.’
Mr Klein said that he had spoken to Mr Bacile on Tuesday night and that the director was ‘in fear of his life’.
Klein said he warned the director ‘you’re going to be the next Theo van Gogh’ – a Dutch filmmaker killed by a Muslim extremist in 2004 after making a film that was perceived as insulting to Islam.
Mr Klein said: ‘He is scared and nervous. He didn’t say much. Going into this we knew something was going to happen, but we didn’t realise this. He is in hiding and I have no idea where he is.’
While he declined to give details, Klein said the film was paid for by ‘Middle Easterners, Jewish people, Christians and a lot of former Muslims’. Some money came from Britain, Israel,Scotland, France, Germany and Holland,’ he said.
But when it premiered in a cinema in Los Angeles three months ago, he thought it was a ‘failure’.
Mr Klein said: ‘We handed out flyers all around Southern California. It was originally called: ‘The Innocence of bin Laden’ as we wanted to draw in the most radical Muslims and we figured the one per cent who were the most militant would interested.
AMERICAN PEOPLE REBUFFED THIS HATE MONGER
‘In the end nobody showed up to see the premiere. I called Sam right away and he sank into a depression.
Concern: There were fears ‘Bacile’ could be targeted like Theo van Gogh, pictured, who was killed by a Muslim extremist after making an anti-Islamic film
‘I told him nobody was there and he said: ‘Really?’ He was really upset. It seemed to fizzle out until a few days ago.’
In a bizarre twist, Mr Klein added: ‘I was so worried about retaliation that I did not get out of my car when I was watching to see who turned up to the film.
‘I have gray hair and a big grey moustache so I dyed them both black and wore sunglasses so nobody would recognise me. I was worried somebody would turn up who knew who I was.’
There has been speculation that Bacile may in fact be Morris Sadek, a Coptic lawyer who has strong anti-Islamic views and fled Egypt in 1969. Last year, he was stripped of Egyptian citizenship after he called on the US to intervene in the country to protect its Christians.
Sadek said he was promoting the video on his website and on certain TV stations, which he did not identify.
Asked if he felt sorry about the deaths, Sadek said: ‘Of course, of course, of course. Thought should be answered by thought,’ adding that he did not think the film was offensive to Islam.
BACILE IS A COWARD
Speaking by phone from an undisclosed location on Tuesday, ‘Bacile’ remained defiant, saying he intended his film to be a provocative political statement condemning the religion.
‘This is a political movie,’ said Bacile. ‘The U.S. lost a lot of money and a lot of people in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we’re fighting with ideas.’
‘Islam is a cancer, period,’ he said repeatedly, his solemn voice thickly accented.
Attack: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks in reaction to the killing of the US Ambassador to Libya on Wednesday. She swore him into office as the ambassador just a few months ago
Muslims find it offensive to depict Muhammad (PBUH) in any manner, let alone insult the Prophet.
A Danish newspaper’s 2005 publication of 12 caricatures of the Prophet (PBUH) triggered riots in many Muslim countries.
Terry Jones, bible thumper in Tampa, who had inflamed anger in the Muslim world in 2010 with plans to burn the Koran, said he had also promoted ‘Innocence of Muslims’.
On his website yesterday he stated: ‘Tonight after International Judge Mohammad Day we will be showing the Mohammad Movie Trailer, a video promoting the movie, Innocence of Muslims.
‘It is an American production, not designed to attack Muslims but to show the destructive ideology of Islam. The movie further reveals in a satirical fashion the life of Muhammad.’
General Martin Demsey, Tried to Talk Sense to the Bigot Terry Jones
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, asked Jones to withdraw his support of the anti-Muslim film on Wednesday.
He called the Jones to express his concerns about the film, saying it could inflame tensions and trigger violence – but Dempsey’s spokesperson did not say whether Jones agreed to limit his support.
VIDEO: Gunmen attack U.S. consulate in Benghazi
VIDEO: Clinton condemns attack that killed Chris Stevens
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2202080/Who-Sam-Bacile-Identity-man-anti-Mohammed-film-crumbles-records-found.html#ixzz26bzZf2Sx
Humayun Saqib Muazzam Khan Captain, United States Army |
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NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department of Defense No. 561-04 IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 9, 2004 Media Contact: Army Public Affairs – (703) 692-2000 Public/Industry Contact: (703) 428-0711
DoD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Captain Humayun S. M. Khan, 27, of Bristow, Virginia, died June 8, 2004, in Baquabah, Iraq, after a vehicle packed with an improvised explosive device drove into the gate of his compound while he was inspecting soldiers on guard duty. Khan was assigned to Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 201st Forward Support Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, Vilseck, Germany.
The incidents are under investigation.
For further information related to this release, contact Army Public Affairs at (703) 692-2000.
Funeral For Pakistani-American U.S. Army Officer Held June 17, 2004
DCM Mohammad Sadiq and interns from the Embassy of Pakistan Tuesday evening attended the funeral of Captain Humayun Saqib Khan held at the Arlington National Cemetery, says an Embassy press release.
He was laid to rest with full military honors. Captain Khan was a Pakistani American who served in the U.S. army as an ordnance officer, being the senior-most community member to die in Iraq. His colleagues and superiors remembered him for his courage, honesty, sense of humor and grace while in the field, even under pressure. Captain Khan’s colleagues eulogized his exemplary services and praised him for the leadership he provided to his troops.
The Muslim chaplain who led the Nimaz-e-Janaza after the military honors, specifically highlighted the ethnically-diverse group that had come to pay its respects to Captain Khan. He was one amongst the growing number of Pakistani Americans in the U.S. Army.
A ‘Peacemaker’ Is Laid to Rest Muslim Soldier From Prince William Tried to Improve Relations in Iraq By Michele Clock Courtesy of the Washington Post Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Army Captain Humayun Khan tried to reassure his parents in Prince William County, Maryland, that he was safe — even though attacks on his base in Baquba, Iraq, were almost constant.
“Whenever I talked to him, I started to cry,” said his mother, Ghazala Khan, 52. “He always said to me, ‘Don’t worry. I’m safe.’ “
The last time she spoke to her 27-year-old son was Mother’s Day, May 9. Yesterday, under the hot midday sun, she and her husband, Khizr M. Khan, 53, watched as their middle son was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
Khan’s was the 66th casualty of the Iraq war to be buried on the cemetery’s lush, manicured hills. His flag-draped wood coffin was placed at the end of a row of marble headstones.
On June 8, Khan died in a suicide car bombing at the main gates of his base. Khan, an ordnance officer with the Germany-based 201st Forward Support Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, had watched as several of his soldiers prepared to do a routine vehicle inspection. His unit was charged with the day-to-day security and maintenance of the camp.
When an orange-colored taxi drove toward them, Khan ordered his soldiers to “hit the dirt,” said his father, who received details of his son’s death from his commanding officer.
Khan walked toward the car, motioning for it to stop, his father said. A makeshift bomb inside it exploded, killing him and two Iraqi civilians in addition to the two suicide bombers. Ten soldiers and six Iraqi citizens were also wounded, the Army said.
Khan’s father said he is proud of his son’s courage but is devastated by the loss.
“Where did his strength come from to face such a danger instead of hiding behind a pole or booth or something?” his father said. “Normally we would try to hide. Had he done that, there would be no problem at all. It may have not been fatal.”
Family members and friends — including Khan’s girlfriend, Irene Auer, 24, of Amberg, Germany — have filled the Khans’ Bristow home in the past week, weeping and praying for the Muslim soldier they will remember as helping to build a bridge between the American and Iraqi people.
During his three months in Iraq, Khan helped put Iraqi civilians to work for $5 an hour patrolling the streets of Baquba under the U.S. Army, his father said.
The program, dubbed the United States-Iraq Sponsorship Program, was intended to help combat high unemployment and provide the local population with security and peace, his father said.
“He was always a peacemaker,” Khizr Khan said, “always seeing an opportunity to give. He always said to the Iraqis, ‘We’re here not to hurt you but to help you.’ “
Auer said her boyfriend enjoyed taking responsibility for others and always respected those around him.
“Whenever I was upset, he always found the right words. He always calmed me down,” she said. “He was perfect. He was the most wonderful person I’ve ever met.”
Khan had hoped one day to go to the University of Virginia law school, his father said. He wanted to be a military lawyer and joined up four years ago in part to pay for law school. His stint was up last month, but because of the Army’s efforts to stem its manpower losses, he was assigned to Iraq indefinitely.
Khan, who was born in the United Arab Emirates, moved to Silver Spring at age 2. He graduated from Kennedy High School in 1996 and the University of Virginia in 2000.
Yesterday, he received full military honors. Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Kerr, an Army chaplain, read a letter written by Khan’s commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Dan Mitchell.
“He died selflessly and courageously, tackling the enemy head on,” Mitchell wrote. “We will not forget him and the noble ideas he stood for.”
Khan was posthumously awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.
Sergeant First Class Robert J. Mogensen of Leesville, Louisiana, was also buried yesterday at Arlington. He was a member of the Army’s Special Forces who was killed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on May 29, 2004. His funeral was closed to the media, cemetery officials said.
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KHAN, HUMAYUN SAQIB MUAZZAM CPT US ARMY DATE OF BIRTH: 09/09/1976 DATE OF DEATH: 06/08/2004 BURIED AT: SECTION 60 SITE 7986 ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
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The first witnesses at Rep. Peter King’s hearings on Muslims in America should be the family and comrades of Army Spec. Azhar Ali of Queens.
The witnesses could recount how Ali came to America from Pakistan when he was 14 and died at 27 serving his country in Iraq as a member of New Yorks famous Fighting 69th.
The father, Mubarak Ali, could repeat for the House Homeland Security Committee what he said as he stood beside his son’s plain wood coffin in the Islamic Burial funeral parlor in Queens that March day in 2005.
“When I heard he was going to Iraq for America, I was proud…He died for a great cause.”
The father could also recount how he and his wife were presented at the graveside with a folded flag of their son’s adopted country along with four medals, including a Bronze Star.
The presiding imam, Zameer Sattaur, could recite the prayer he offered, the words springing from the true heart of Islam.
“The purpose of life is to do good …”
The chaplain the Army sent to the funeral, Rabbi Jacob Goldstein, a colonel in the reserves and prominent member of the Hassidic community in Crown Heights, could testify that the imam invited him to give a graveside prayer.
A host of comrades could testify to Ali’s courage and devotion to duty. Sgt. Adrian Melendez could speak of how Ali was among those who rescued him after an IED attack.
“He died a great soldier,” Melendez has said of Ali and would surely say so again.
Other witnesses could tell the committee of Army Special Forces Staff Sgt. Ayman Taha of Virginia, who was killed in Iraq in 2006 and of Army Cpl. Kareem Khan of New Jersey, who was killed there in 2007.
Both received the Bronze Star. Both have headstones with crescent stars rather than crosses at Arlington National Cemetery, with a good view of the Capitol and the Cannon House office building, where King will hold his hearing.
If Taha’s father were asked to testify, he would no doubt note anew that his son was a devout Muslim who embraced the same principle set forth by the imam’s prayer beside Ali’s coffin.
The father, Abdel-Rahman Taha, has said that his son felt Islam’s essential message was “to believe in God and do good deeds…
“He believed what he was doing there was the good deeds Islam is asking for.”
Khan’s father is on record saying of his son, “His Muslim faith did not make him not want to go. It never stopped him.”
Feroze Khan added, “He looked at it that he’s American and he has a job to do.”
As recorded below the crescent star on his tombstone, Kareem Khan was born in 1987, which means he was just 14 on 9/11. He became and remained determined to demonstrate that only a tiny minority of Muslims are America-hating extremists.
Khan no sooner graduated high school in 2005 than he was taking his first plane ride, to begin basic training. He was in Iraq a year later and was to come home when his tour was extended. He voiced no complaint.
Let the committee record show that he was only 20 when he died, demonstrating that you can be a devout Muslim and give all anybody of any faith can give to America.
Let the committee take care how it proceeds, for to stoke prejudice against all Muslims is to dishonor the memory of Khan and Taha and Ali and the others of their faith who have made the supreme sacrifice in this long war.
To dishonor them is to dishonor the country King says he’s defending.
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