"I've met him twice. He is not a citizen of Israel. He is in hiding," Steve Klein, a member of a far-right anti-Islamic Christian group who says he helped with the film's production, told ABC News. Klein said Bacile was not Israeli or Jewish, and suggested he was an Arab Christian who was a U.S. citizen. ABCBacile may be fake name for a group of rightwing Christians with an apocalyptic agenda:
It appears the people who acted in the film were tricked.