Anti-Muslim filmmaker jailed for year in US
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The man behind the anti-Islam video blamed for sparking widespread protests in the Muslim world was jailed for one year Wednesday for breaching the terms of his probation for a previous offence.
Mark Basseley Youssef will serve the sentence in federal prison after he admitted four allegations of using false identities, violating the terms of his probation for a bank fraud conviction in 2010.
The 55-year-old was identified as the main man behind Innocence Of Muslims, which triggered a wave of protests in September, and was initially blamed for an attack which killed the US ambassador to Libya.
In February 2009, a federal indictment accused Youssef and others of fraudulently obtaining the identities and Social Security numbers of customers at several Wells Fargo branches in California and withdrawing US$860 (S$1,051) from them.
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