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WRKF
April 21, 2018
Egypt's general prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for eight Americans in relation to the anti-Muslim film that has sparked worldwide protests. While it's not entirely clear who made the The Innocence of Muslims, a Coptic Christian from California named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has admitted having a role in the film'sÃâà...
New York Times
November 25, 2012
LOS ANGELES — Fuming for two months in a jail cell here, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has had plenty of time to reconsider the wisdom of making “Innocence of ..... He explained that using the name Sam Bacile, he created a Facebook account before production started and then the YouTube account.
New York Times
November 7, 2012
The man, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who is also known as Mark Basseley Youssef, a name he legally adopted in 2002, appeared in Federal District ... Mr. Dugdale said Mr. Nakoula had used the alias Sam Bacile, among others, to make the movie and had tricked the cast into thinking it was making aÃâà...
ABC News
September 27, 2012
The Southern California man who wrote and produced the controversial anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" was ordered detained without bail by a federal judge for allegedly violating the terms of his probation. Citing a "lengthy pattern of deception," Judge Suzanne Segal said that the court had a "lack ofÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
September 15, 2012
Other articles now suggest, based on accounts from some of the actors, that Nakoula's 21-year-old son, Abanob Basseley Nakoula, was the man who went by the alias "Sam Bacile" during filming of the "historical war drama period piece" in front of a green screen in Duarte, California. Federal court papersÃâà...
LA Weekly (blog)
September 13, 2012
Its producer is said to be an Israel real estate mogul in L.A. named Sam Bacile, who told reporters yesterday that "Islam is a cancer. ... Christian religion in the Middle East) and bank-fraud convict named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula who has the same address as that affiliated with a phone number for "Bacile.
NPR (blog)
September 12, 2012
Using the cellphone number they talked to "Sam Bacile," The Associated Press tracked down a man named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, who lived at the address that aligned with cellphone records. Nakoula denied that he directed the film but admitted that he was the manager for the productionÃâà...
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