by Robert Beckhusen | Nov 26, 2012 | Monitor
The deceptive multi-aliased filmmaker behind the shlocky Islamophobic movie “Innocence of Muslims” is even sneakier than we thought. His 17th alias has been uncovered, along with the filmmaker’s history as a one-time salesman of drug...
by Noah Shachtman | Sep 28, 2012 | Monitor
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, right, talks with his attorney. Illustration: AP/Mona Shafer Edwards Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is many things: a huckster, a convenient scapegoat, a terrible filmmaker. But to the members of America’s Islamophobic fringe, the producer of...
by Noah Shachtman | Sep 28, 2012 | Monitor
Anti-Islam film producer Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is escorted by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies from his home in Cerritos, California. Photo: AP/CBS2-KCAL9 Updated 9/28/12 3:53 pm. When federal snitch and convicted fraudster Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was...
by Noah Shachtman with Robert Beckhusen | Sep 13, 2012 | Monitor
A scene from the video ‘Innocence of Muslims.” Image: via YouTube Updated 5:34 pm. He went by many names, the man who helped produce “The Innocence of Muslims,” the inflammatory video now roiling the Middle East: Matthew Nekola; Ahmed Hamdy;...
by Spencer Ackerman | Aug 8, 2012 | Monitor
Security contractors in Baghdad. Photo: courtesy of Robert Young Pelton. Depending on how you look at it, the world’s most notorious mercenary firm just got away with misleading the government about arming and training foreign governments — or the company...