Yahoo: Feds ID California man's role in anti-Islam film

EILEEN SULLIVAN and STEPHEN BRAUN | Associated Press   via Instapundit

Here's a way for a conviction to proceed:

He was also sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and ordered not to use computers or the Internet for five years without approval from his probation officer.

The person in question would have violated parole, if he is indeed the person responsible for the video.

So, so convenient.  I smell a rat.  This movie was so bad that it could not have ever become popular on its merits.  It is also becoming clear, from the article, that it has fraudulent aspects.  Consider this:

• American actors and actresses who appeared in "Innocence of Muslims" issued a joint statement Wednesday saying they were misled about the project and alleged that some of their dialogue was crudely dubbed during post-production.
• actors aren't seen when the name "Muhammad" is spoken in the overdubbed sound, or they appear to be mouthing something else as the name of the prophet is spoken.
• One of the actresses...the film was originally titled "Desert Warriors" and that the script did not contain offensive references to Islam.
• About 15 key players from the Middle East — people from Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan and Iran, and a couple of Coptic Christians from Egypt — worked on the film
• Hollywood and California film industry groups and permit agencies said they had no records of the project under the name "Innocence of Muslims," but a Los Angeles film permit agency later found a record of a movie filmed in Los Angeles last year under the working title "Desert Warriors."
• Klein told the AP he vowed to help make the movie but warned the filmmaker that "you're going to be the next Theo van Gogh." Van Gogh was a Dutch filmmaker killed by a Muslim extremist in 2004 after making a film that was perceived as insulting to Islam.
  
  "We went into this knowing this was probably going to happen," Klein said.
• a Christian activist involved in the film project, Steve Klein, told the AP on Wednesday that Bacile was a pseudonym and that he was Christian.

Hard to say from all this, but it could be a disinformation initiative that has a political goal of some kind.

It is almost comical in its ineptitude, but considering the impact thus far, I'd say that the ineptitude is deceiving because the political effect is what may have been the intention all along.  That is to say, that the intention was not to make a work of art, nor social commentary, but to cause political damage--- provided that this is ultimately successful.