Feds ID California man’s role in anti-Islam film

This is about as bad as bad could be in some ways.

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By EILEEN SULLIVAN and STEPHEN BRAUN | Associated Press – 10 hrs ago
  • Associated Press/Hani Mohammed – A Yemeni protestor, left, holds a white flag with Islamic inscription in Arabic that reads, “No God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet,” in front of the U.S. embassy during …more 

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities have identified a southern California man once convicted of 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 said Thursday.

Attorney General Eric Holder said that Justice Department officials had opened a criminal investigation into the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other diplomats killed during an attack on the American mission in Benghazi. It was not immediately clear whether authorities were focusing on the California filmmaker as part of that probe.

A federal law enforcement official said Thursday that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was the man behind “Innocence of Muslims,” a film denigrating Islam and the Prophet Muhammad that sparked protests earlier in the week in Egypt and Libya and now in Yemen. U.S. authorities are investigating whether the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Libya came during a terrorist attack.

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