© Reuters / Bret HartmanNakoula Basseley Nakoula (C) is escorted out of his home by Los Angeles County Sheriff's officers in Cerritos, California September 15, 2012
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was taken to a police station in Cerritos, California, where he was interviewed by federal probation officers, L.A. County Sheriff Department spokesperson Steve Whitmore confirmed.
Media and law enforcement officials staked out a house reportedly owned by Nakoula at the end of a cul-de-sac in the southern California city for around 48 hours, until the man emerged wearing a coat, hat, scarf and glasses.
Nakoula's Coptic Christian bishop claimed the man told him that he was not involved in the film, but that the media had linked his name to the video that mocked the Prophet Mohammed.
"The US probation office in the central district of California is reviewing the case," court spokesperson Karen Redmond told reporters.
Police are investigating Nakoula's alleged involvement in creating the film Innocence of Muslims, and for possible parole violations.
The 13-minute video, which portrayed the Prophet Mohammad engaging in a variety of offensive behavior, sparked anti-US anger and protests around the globe, including violent clashes at US embassies and the death of US ambassador to Libya.
Nakoula, known under at least a dozen other aliases, had been previously convicted of crimes including bank fraud and the intention to manufacture methamphetamine.
In 2010, he was found guilty of opening bank accounts using stolen identities and Social Security numbers, and was sentenced to 21 months in prison. Nakoula was released in June 2011 on the condition of restricted Internet access for five years.
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Juan Cole, a scholar of the Middle East (and sometime CIA briefer, as well as apologist and disinformation agent), has posted about this on his blog Informed Comment: [Link].
There are so many various spooks, blinds and patsies involved in this that no one will ever figure out exactly who did what, when, how, or why. It's a fair bet that the CIA and the MOSSAD are up to their eyeballs in it, though.
I'm not surprised that it turned out that the so-called "Israeli Jew" who did this is actually an Arab informer.
The US has been using Israel as a patsy for years, and so this guy causing worldwide riots (to justify US invasion), then using a "Jewish" name to do it is part of the usual modus operandi. The idea is to cause a situation demanding war, then let Israelis take the blame. If Mossad is involved, it is surely as lackeys of the US military industrial complex. The propaganda online about a "Zionist conspiracy" is all part of this tactic. Deflect blame from the REAL criminals, cause a riot, cause a pogrom, and the banksters (all of them country club WASPs) can slink away as the riot troops and soldiers clean up the mess. When it's all over and done, one or two guys will be the "fall guys" and the rest go scot-free. It's an old game, and not terribly original, but because humanity has a short attention span, it seems to work every time.
I've been to Israel. The people there are tired of perpetual war, and want peace. It is the corrupt corporate plutocracy that continues to call for war behind the scenes.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, sit back and watch this get spun as a "lone nut" story. They will tell us that this guy is crazy, on medication, etc., They keep re-using the same stories over and over. It's almost as if they think people are stupid. Oh, wait. They are.
...whether the players in this article are all psychological operations 'actors' - mind controlled 'patsies' - CIA Operatives. It all seems a little too staged. All film production companies are owned by the same conglomerate multinational corporations that are aligned with and controlled by the cabal/illuminati/whatever.
Why is it a film maker is under arrest before you can blink your eyes but the 'planes' that alledgedly flew into the twin towers were in the air for a bloody long time before anyone noticed???!! Things that make you go hmmm...
Much Peace...for all Victims of all the planned psychological operatives that have ever been...