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But Sudanese Foreign Minister, Ali Karti, on Saturday flady rejected a US request to send special forces to protect the Khartoum embassy, the official SUNA news agency said, quoting his office.
US officials hours later announced Washington would evacuate all non-essential staff and family members from Sudan and Tunisia and warned US citizens against travel to the two countries.
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Nakoula Basseley Nakoula — also known as Sam Bacile — was last week named by the FBI as the maker of Innocence of Muslims, which ridicules the prophet Muhammad.
The Mail yesterday has exclusively obtained this onset image of him with the film's star Anna Gurji, who says she was duped by the 55-year-old director.
Nakoula is an Egyptian-born Coptic Christian. Now living in California, he is a convicted drug dealer and conman who was last released from jail in June last year.
US officials have said authorities were not investigating the film project itself, and that even if it was inflammatory or led to violence, simply producing it cannot be considered a crime in the United States, which has strong free speech laws.
Two attorneys visited Nakoula's home hours before he was taken in for questioning. They said they were there to consult with him.
Nakoula, whose name has been widely linked to the film in media reports, pleaded guilty to bank fraud in 2010 and was sentenced to 21 months in prison, to be followed by five years on supervised probation, court documents showed.
He was released in June 2011, and at least some production on the video was done later that summer.
But the terms of Nakoula's prison release contain
behaviour stipulations that bar him from accessing the Internet or assuming aliases without the approval of his probation officer.
A senior law enforcement official in Washington has indicated the probation investigation relates to whether he broke one or both of these conditions. Violations could result in him being sent back to prison, court records show. BLOCKED IN INDIA Yesterday, India said Google had blocked access in the country to the anti-Islam film as it condemned the "offensive" movie, reports AFP
"Google India has, in compliance with Indian law, blocked access to the offensive material," foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said.
A Google executive, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Friday that it had blocked access to Internet users trying to watch the movie via YouTube which it owns.
More than 80 people were arrested in the southern city of Chennai on Friday after an attack by Islamists on the US consulate during a protest against the film.
KILLING UNJUSTIFIED Despite Tehran's hostility to Washington and its own condemnation of the movie, Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander General Mohammad Ali Jafari said the killing of the US ambassador to Libya last Tuesday was unjustified.
In the worst violence sparked by the film, the US ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans died when suspected Islamic militants fired rocket-propelled grenades at the US consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi.
In cities across the Muslim world protesters have since vented their fury at the "Innocence of Muslims" — an amateur film produced in the United States — by targeting symbols of US influence ranging from embassies and schools to fast food chains.
Although the US government itself has condemned the film, protests erupted again yesterday with hundreds of students pouring into the streets of Kabul
shouting anti-American slogans.
Muslims also took to the streets of Australia's largest city, some throwing rocks and bottles in clashes with police, adds Reuters.
About 80 Islamist militants were arrested in Paris while trying to demonstrate outside the US embassy near the Champs Elysees, French police sources said.
Libyan authorities said they had identified 50 people who were involved in the attack in which ambassador Christopher Stevens died.
In an interview aired on Saturday on NBC's "Nightly News," Libyan President Mohammed Magarief was quoted as saying that foreigners along with Libyans were involved in the attack on the consulate in Benghazi.
Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al al-Sheikh, denounced the attacks.
He described the short film as "miserable" and "criminal," but said attacks on the innocent and on diplomats were "a distortion of the Islamic religion and are not accepted by God".
With Muslim anger boiling, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) Saturday issued a call for more violence against US diplomatic missions in the Middle East and Africa, and urged attacks on US interests in the West, the SITE Intelligence Group said.
AQAP, al-Qaeda's Yemeni offshoot, did not claim direct responsibility for the deadly attack in Benghazi.
But it said the killing of al-Qaeda deputy leader Sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi in a June drone strike in Pakistan "increased the enthusiasm and determination of the sons of (Libyan independence hero) Omar al-Mukhtar to take revenge upon those who attack our Prophet," according to SITE.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton undertook a round of telephone diplomacy Saturday, calling her counterparts in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Britain and France, as well as the prime minister of Libya and the Somali president, in a bid to rally support, State Department spokeswoman Victoria