Curiouser, And Curiouser... 'Was ‘Innocence Of Muslims’ Director Also An Informant?' - DailyBeast

[WillyT]

Was ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Director Also an Informant?
He’s set the Mideast ablaze with his anti-Muslim film trailer. But Nakoula Basseley Nakoula’s murky background in methamphetamine doesn’t add up to some in law enforcement.
by Christine Pelisek , Michael Daly - DailyBeast
Sep 14, 2012 4:45 AM EDT

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When the police pulled Nakoula Basseley Nakoula over outside Los Angeles on March 27, 1997, he had $45,000 in hundreds and twenties in a paper lunch bag on the seat beside him.

Fifteen years would pass before Nakoula would become known as the man who helped set the Mideast afire with an anti-Muslim film trailer. On this night, though, he was the subject of a drug investigation, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department had been watching him as he drove a U-Haul rental truck from a storage facility in Downey to a Super 7 liquor store. There, he picked up a liquor store employee named Khaled Abraham. They proceeded to Abraham’s house in Lake Elsinore.

At the house, Nakoula and the others unloaded 30 boxes of pseudoephedrine, a prime ingredient of methamphetamine. Another 99 cases were found at the storage facility.

After his arrest, Nakoula insisted he had only been doing the bidding of his employer, Mansour Barsoum, whom he described as the owner of a firm called ABC Trading. The police determined that the storage unit had indeed been rented under the name Barsoum, but the manager identified Nakoula as the person who actually had rented it.

The police were unable to find any trace of Mansour or ABC Trading, though Nakoula was discovered to have receipts from a Santa Monica firm called M&A for the purchase of some $150,000 of pseudoephedrine pills. The authorities also could not find a business license for M&A Trading, but a federal DEA agent were able to trace a lot number on a March 3, 1997, receipt to pills recovered at an illegal meth lab.

Nakoula sought to explain his boss’s absence by saying, “Mansour had left for Egypt.” Nakoula’s lawyer subsequently produced a copy of an Egyptian passport for a man of that name, but the police do not seem to have been convinced.

Nakoula nonetheless only spent just two days in jail, getting off with three years’ probation when he could have gotten hard time.

“Sounds like he’s an informant,” observes a law-enforcement official familiar such matters, though not with the particulars of this case.

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[CJCRANE]

1. Keep digging. nt

[Live and Learn]

2. So, he makes a movie to piss of the very people he was giving money?

Attempting to incite the Muslims while at the same time donating to them?

If he was an informant, the police made a very poor choice. You obviously can't trust a thing this man says.

[CJCRANE]

3. This guy could be working for

Al Qaeda or Hezbollah for all we know, and made this movie to help them. It's certainly had that effect.

[Live and Learn]

4. Exactly. Hard to know what direction this is taking but we know it isn't good. nt

[WillyT]

5. Or... The Republicans/The PTB... They Seemed To Have Had All Their Talking Points All Printed Out...

[WillyT]

6. G'Night Kick !!!

[woo me with science]

7. Interesting.