The film has been around for a while. Pastor Jones, in his infinite wisdom, dragged it from the scrapheap and, through the miracle of modern communications technology, managed to create an international incident that neither he, nor anyone else seems to have anticipated.

Given that, whatever we may think of his ideas and his methods, he didn't start the fire. The attack in Benghazi looks very much like it is part of a paramilitary campaign that has been in progress for a while. It is likely that they took advantage of the fact that a peaceful demonstration was in progress to cover their approach.

It looks very much like the protests in other places are being used in the same way. When there is a volatile situation, it just takes one match.