OBAMA BLAMES 'THE FILM' FOR MIDEAST VIOLENCE
Obama Speaks to U.N. About YouTube Video Posted in June by Southern Californian
(CNSNews.com) - In an address to the United Nations General Assembly
today, President Barack Obama dedicated several long passages to
discussing and condemning what the New York Times has described as a
14-minute "amateurish video" that a 55-year-old Southern California man
posted on YouTube in June.
Obama also told the United Nations that with modern technology
efforts to control the flow of information have become “obsolete.”
The Obama administration had originally suggested that the video in
question—which the New York Times said was a trailer for a movie
entitled “The Innocence of Muslims”—may have been responsible for
inspiring a mob to attack the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on
Sept. 11 and to kill U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other
Americans.
However, the Libyan prime minister said last week that the attack on
the U.S. consulate was pre-planned. Also, the chairman of the U.S.
House Intelligence Committee said on Sunday that not only was the
attack planned but also that there was reason to believe it had been
carried out by al Qaeda or an al Qaeda-affiliated group and that he had
seen no evidence that there had even been a demonstration outside the
consulate before the attack.
“In every country, there are those who find different religious
beliefs threatening; in every culture, those who love freedom for
themselves must ask how much they are willing to tolerate freedom for
others,” Obama told the United Nations.
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