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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-25-06 02:17 PM
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159. You can find them if you are a bit motivated
Note that they freely steal bandwidth to get their message out; what princes: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1224273,00.html
What do a small south Texas cable company, a suburban Virginia cable provider and Web-hosting servers in Delhi, Montreal, Brooklyn and New Jersey have in common? Since fighting broke out in Lebanon, they all have had their communications portals hijacked by Hizballah. Hackers from the militant Lebanese group are trolling the Internet for vulnerable sites to communicate with one another and to broadcast messages from Al-Manar television, which is banned in the U.S. In the cyberterrorism trade it is known as "whack-a-mole" — just like the old carnival game, Hizballah sites pop up, get whacked down and then pop up again somewhere else on the World Wide Web. ...

You may have to hunt, and you might get shut out midstream, but you can find them. I've done it, and fairly recently.

If you want to see a quick overview of their programming, these links are instructive. Full disclosure and fair warning, so I am not "accused" of "propagandizing:" Jews prepared the material you will see in these links, but they accurately portray the station's content:

http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/sib/10_04/oct_04.htm
http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20Al-Shatat.html
http://www.techcentralstation.com/121504B.html
http://www.meib.org/articles/0304_l1.htm
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=66

This is a good overview of the entire situation in the region, several years old but still relevant. The entire piece is informative and interesting, and Al Manar is discussed in section III: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/021014fa_fact4
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