...The three Libyan officials who confirmed the deaths were deputy interior minister for eastern Libya Wanis Al-Sharaf; Benghazi security chief Abdel-Basit Haroun; and Benghazi city council and security official Ahmed Bousinia....
This was in Arab News, but, the facts are still muddled. In one paragraph it reports the Ambassador and three Americans are dead and then further on it states an official in Benghazi reports one American dead and one shot in the hand. That was all in the same article, so it would seem as though the official report of the incident is not clear.
Most of the press in the Middle East does recognize the film however and believes that to be the reason for the attacks. There is also a consistency that Americans were the targets and no other ethnic group. That was in the Gulf News, etc.
And this from The Jordan Times where the King is moving forward with a parliamentary government.
Tunisian riot police (click title to entry - thank you) fire tear gas to disperse protesters during a demonstration against a film deemed offensive to Islam, outside the US embassy in Tunis, on Wednesday. A purported portrayal of the life of the Prophet Mohammad in the low-budget ‘Innocence of Muslims’ movie sparked protests in Egypt and violence in Libya that killed US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three American officials (AFP photo)
This was in Arab News, but, the facts are still muddled. In one paragraph it reports the Ambassador and three Americans are dead and then further on it states an official in Benghazi reports one American dead and one shot in the hand. That was all in the same article, so it would seem as though the official report of the incident is not clear.
Most of the press in the Middle East does recognize the film however and believes that to be the reason for the attacks. There is also a consistency that Americans were the targets and no other ethnic group. That was in the Gulf News, etc.
And this from The Jordan Times where the King is moving forward with a parliamentary government.
Reuters | Sep 12, 2012 | 23:45
...It was not immediately clear precisely how or where California-born ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed during the assault. Stevens was a key player when the Obama administration supported the anti-Qadhafi insurgency.
US consular staff were rushed to a safe house after the initial attack, Libya’s Deputy Interior Minister Wanis Sharif said. An evacuation plane with US commando units then arrived from Tripoli to evacuate them from the house.
“It was supposed to be a secret place and we were surprised the armed groups knew about it. There was shooting,” Sharif said. Two US personnel were killed there, he said. Two other people were killed at the main consular building and between 12 and 17 wounded....
It would seem the Ambassador and one other was killed within the consulate and the other two at the safe house. There is a surprise to the report by Wanis as to the knowledge of the militants knowing where the safe house existed.
Wanis was the one in the other news media stating there was only one killed at the consulate. Evidently, that might be the case, but the facts are still not completely clear.
No one can deny the widespread protests across the region occurred due to the film. It just is. If Libya is the exception, then why?
Sam Bacile, the maker of the movie is not in hiding (click here). The movie sounds like nothing but lies.
This is from Military.com. I agree with them. This Muslim and Islam stuff is out of line. Way out of line.
Sam Bacile, the maker of the movie is not in hiding (click here). The movie sounds like nothing but lies.
This is from Military.com. I agree with them. This Muslim and Islam stuff is out of line. Way out of line.
'Lawrence Of Arabia' Set for Re-release (click here)
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"Lawrence of Arabia" will be re-released in U.S. theaters to mark the Oscar-winning epic's 50th anniversary, Fathom Events and Sony Pictures Entertainment said.
Directed by David Lean and starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Shariff, Claude Rains, Anthony Quinn and Alec Guinness, the digitally restored movie will be back on the big screen in select theaters Oct. 4.
The special anniversary screening will feature a pre-recorded introduction by Sharif, as well as newsreel footage showing the film's New York premiere and King Hussein visiting the set in Aqaba where he met Lean, O'Toole and producer Sam Spiegel as they were making the movie....
This is standard practice for a group of producers and directors that raise money to rejuvenate very old film. So, this is nothing but STATUS QUO for the movie industry. It is the movie's 50th anniversary. This would have occurred anyway whether or not the USA was engaged in the Middle East.
The film make defaming the Islamic faiths should be ridiculed and removed from circulation. I haven't seen it and I don't want to see it. I am confident it is nothing but lies.
The film make defaming the Islamic faiths should be ridiculed and removed from circulation. I haven't seen it and I don't want to see it. I am confident it is nothing but lies.
