Posted on 12/17/2004 4:15:38 PM PST by Tarpaulin
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- The United States on Friday putthe Hezbollah television station al-Manar on its list of terroristorganizations.
The State Department announced that the Lebanon-based television station, which has been banned from broadcasting in France, had been added to its Terrorist Exclusion List.
"The fact is that Hezbollah is an active terrorist organization," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told a regular news briefing.
The United States has already designated Hizbollah as a foreignterrorist organization, and the State Department has been open in its criticism of al-Manar's satellite television programs.
"We consider (al-Manar) to be disgusting programming that preaches hatred and violence and ... ideas that are antithetical to the values which we believe in," deputy spokesman of the State Department Adam Ereli said at a briefing on Dec. 9.
France on Monday stopped Al-Manar using a French satellite network to transmit to Europe, accusing it of broadcasting hatefulcontent in some shows and posing risks to public order. Enditem
This was hard to figure out? Maybe after recognizing the PLO as a legitimate organization and Arafat as some kind of statesman, I guess it's hard to decide some of these other outfits are bent on murder.
I'm confused. Hezbollah is considered a terrorist organization but their television station wasn't?
Maybe their TV station advertised that it was "Fair and Balanced"
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Al-Manar is also available in the US (some of it anyway)...through WorldLink TV in California.
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