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 | Sep 14, 2012 | Monitor
A screenshot from “The Innocence of Muslims.” Photo: YouTube Updated 6:05 pm. 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,...
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 | Sep 11, 2012 | Monitor
Photo: Flickr/Michael R. Perry Once again, it’s September 11. Once again, the nation pauses — however momentarily — to reflect on the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, and the country they continue to reshape 11 years later....