Video: Reuters ReutersĪs the media descended on anyone associated with the video, fresh details emerged about its production and promotion by an alliance of members of Egypt's Coptic diaspora and militant rightwing US Christians. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton denounced the violence and the video that sparked it. With violence in the Arab world spreading to Yemen – following attacks on US targets in Egypt and Libya which cost the lives of the US ambassador and three colleagues in Benghazi – authorities in California were taking few chances.
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Police also visited a production company called Media for Christ, a Christian non-profit in Duarte, California, after it was identified as the one which obtained a film permit for the shoot. Nakoula, an Egyptian-American Coptic Christian, has reportedly expressed fears of retaliation amid growing evidence that he is Sam Bacile, the pseudonym of the blasphemous video's director and writer. Police monitored the scene but Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the LA county sheriff, said this did not mean the maker of Innocence of Muslims was under police protection: "We're only here because the media is here." Whitmore declined to comment on reports that FBI counter-terrorism agents had questioned him. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, stayed hidden from view on Thursday as television crews camped outside his door in a leafy suburb of Cerros, just outside Los Angeles. The maker of the anti-Islamic video which triggered violence across the Arab world was believed to be hunkered in his California home amid a media siege and revelations about his criminal record.