Film That Stoked Mideast Violence: US Ambassador Among Four Killed

Film producer - Sam Bacile, is in hiding. Speaking by phone from an undisclosed location, protesters angered by the amateur film opened fire then burnt down the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing the US ambassador, Christopher Stevens, and three officials. In Cairo, Egyptian demonstrators stormed the fortified walls of the US Embassy. In Benghazi, some news reports said that US guards inside the consulate had fired their weapons, while a brigade of Libyan security forces fought the attackers in the streets.

The 14-minute trailer of it all that may actually exist was posted on Youtube in June affronts the prophet Muhammad, calling him a fraud and philanderer who approved of child sexual abuse and had "young girl" wives.
According to NBC's Richard Engel, the film was brought to light in Egypt by a religious cleric speaking on TV. While Bacile expressed remorse to AP after the attacks, he doesn't think the de

aths are is his fault, saying "I feel the security system (at the embassies) is no good ... America should do something to change it." But while the 13-minute trailer has already led to four deaths, Bacile tells AP the film has only been shown once in its entirety to a mostly empty theater in Hollywood earlier this year.

Though the film that set off violence across North Africa was made in obscurity somewhere in the sprawl of Southern California, and promoted by a network of right-wing Christians with a history of animosity directed toward Muslims. When a 14-minute trailer of it all that may actually exist was posted on YouTube in June.