U.S. on alert for Islamist ire to ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ (Obama killing Osama movie)

Washington Times ^ | 12/20/12 | Kristina Wong

[Libloather]

U.S. on alert for Islamist ire to ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
Film depicts harsh interrogation methods
By Kristina Wong
The Washington Times
Thursday, December 20, 2012

**SNIP**

Yet fears of a violent backlash against “Zero Dark Thirty,” which goes into wide release in the U.S. on Jan. 11, are swirling in some corners of Washington and appear to be accentuated by a public perception of a U.S. government consultative role in pre-production research for the film.

Radical corners of the Muslim world have been known to fan the flames around perceived official U.S. involvement with material considered blasphemous, as happened this autumn in Egypt. Protesters infuriated by the “Innocence of Muslims” stormed the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, then tore down the American flag and briefly replaced it with an Islamic banner.

The demonstrations coincided with the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S., where the “Innocence of Muslims” was made but practically unnoticed. However, a television network in Egypt prone to hard-line Salafist programming drew attention to the video and drummed up anger by broadcasting portions of it.

Claims that the Obama administration provided the “Zero Dark Thirty” filmmakers special access to high-level national security officials and shared sensitive information about the bin Laden raid have led to an internal Pentagon investigation of suspected security leaks.

[Libloather]

Sept. 20 - Obama at a town hall meeting says: “What we do know is that the natural protests that arose because of the outrage over the video were used as an excuse by extremists to see if they can also directly harm U.S. interests.”

[ChocChipCookie]

It’s interesting that the movie that glorified Obama’s role in Osama’s death was perfectly okay. No worries there.

[Rappini]

I’m waiting for them to perp walk the director of ZDT.

[Capt. Tom]

I doubt extremist murderers are going to garner much sympathy in the West or in the Muslim world, but we’ll keep an eye on things,” the official said.

It's not about approval, or a pat on the back from another mere mortal: it's about getting a pat on the back from their God.(Allah)-Tom

[MestaMachine]

I’m waiting for them to perpwalk the perp in chief and all his little perp friends.
Now maybe I should recalculate the ammount of ammo I might need in the near future...and is THIS why he wants us disarmed so badly? ‘cause the muslims certainly have weapons caches that rival any military installation.

[j_tull]

It’ll be fine, the movie is not on YouTube.

[RWB Patriot]

Anybody else wonder where we’d be as a country if we behaved along the lines of “We’re proud of who and what we are and screw you if you hate us because of it”?

[marron]

Do you suppose they’ll jail the director?

[BeAllYouCanBe]

You have to wonder how much the producer gave to the DNC?

[exit82]

Well, now we have the reason for the vacation to the Hawaii.

[Rappini]

The AG Holder still hasn’t done anything about their training camps here in the US.