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U.S. taxpayers should not pay to air terrorist tirades. Yet, that is exactly what happened at Alhurra, an Arabic-language television network for the Middle East that is completely funded by U.S. tax dollars. Alhurra exists to counter the anti-American biases that pervade the Arab world’s news media. However, the station’s recent broadcasts have instead provided platforms for terrorists to spew hate directed at the United States and Israel. U.S. taxpayers should not pay ... U.S. taxpayers should not pay to air terrorist tirades. Yet, that is exactly what happened at Alhurra, an Arabic-language television network for the Middle East that...

Two New Jersey Congressmen have expressed outrage that Alhurra, a US-funded Arabic-language television network in the Middle East created to counter the propaganda of media such as Al Jazeera, has broadcast live, hour-long interviews with terrorist leaders and sympathetically viewed Holocaust deniers.Representatives Steven Rothman, a Democrat, and Frank LoBiondo, a Republican, have called for, among other remedies, the immediate resignation of Larry Register, Alhurra’s non-Arab speaking news director.To make Alhurra more accountable so that terrorists never again take over the station’s broadcasts, Mr. Rothman, a long-standing member of the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, has requested funding so...