Ah, that's what I am talking about: the existance of the video was known to the islamists days before the western press knew about it - the press wasn't even sure which video the US embassy was talking about at first. I wonder if the clips the tele-islamist aired were downloaded from the internet link everyone else saw as-is, or if the tele-Islamist was the one who doctored and posted it in the first place, perhaps to signal a select number of other imams around the world in some way that the plan was in motion, etc, without letting anyone else know it was going to be a multi-continental riot.
Anyway, I didn't say the video had been seen by the bulk of the protesters because it had what, fewer than 100 views on it when we found out about it? It didn't need to be seen by the lowly protesters- in the Middle east, average joe-schmoe protesters don't really show up for anything we do in the west, they show up because during the Friday prayers their imam tells them to show up, so they are all ready to go to the protest after worshipping based on what he told them, real or imaginary, not on anything they have actually seen for themselves. All that is needed is to incite a few of one's fellow imams.
What I am saying is that the video may have been nothing more than an explanation given by the leaders of the protest to justify an action - in Islam revenge is the only acceptable violence, so in order to start a fight the islamists have to create an offense to avenge, if one isn't already available. They [or perhaps their western advisors] also know Americans wouldn't be moved by their passionate desire to release the blind sheikh, so the video may have been brought up so muslims could play the victim card, and to rail against free speech, which was the meme of the past few months before Benghazi.
So when our embassy tweeter went on and on apologizing for the video it must have made the leaders of the protest laugh at the stupidity of the US state department because the US embassy reaction made the US look silly and weak and pathetic, which is great for recruiting more jihadists. It was a win-win- distract the US long enough to smack their compound and recruit, recruit, recruit.
I don’t think the knowledge of the ‘video’ by the State Dept. and Islamist Imams is coincidental. The fact that the dissemination of the video is tied to Stanley Inc. some months before Sept. 11th leads me to think the State Dept. and other 0bama minions knew of it well before any Islamists did.