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Old 08-28-2006, 09:07 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Man arrested for broadcasting al-Manar News
So much for freedom of the press, huh?

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New Yorker arrested for broadcasting Hizbollah TV
Reuters | Aug 24, 2006



NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have arrested a New York man for broadcasting Hizbollah television station al-Manar, which has been designated a terrorist entity by the U.S. Treasury Department, prosecutors said on Thursday.

Javed Iqbal, 42, was arrested on Wednesday because his Brooklyn-based company HDTV Ltd. was providing New York-area customers with the Hizbollah-operated channel, federal prosecutors said in a statement.

It did not say how long Iqbal's company had been providing satellite broadcasts of al-Manar, which the U.S. Treasury Department in March had designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity, making it a crime to conduct business with al-Manar.

Iqbal has been charged with conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the statement said. Federal authorities searched HDTV's Brooklyn office and Iqbal's Staten Island home, where Iqbal was suspected of maintaining satellite dishes, the statement said.

The U.S. Treasury Department froze U.S. assets of al-Manar in March, saying it supported fund-raising and recruitment activities of Hizbollah, a Shiite Muslim group backed by Syria and Iran that has been at war with Israel in southern Lebanon.
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Old 08-28-2006, 09:13 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 08-28-2006, 10:24 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I don't believe he was even charged with that. I think he was broadcasting it legally. Which is why they arrested him for "doing business" with them. We'll see I guess.
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I guess I just gave them something to fall back on....Doh!
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Well, in order to broadcast their channel legally, he would have to be giving a terrorist organization money... Which is very, very illegal.
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Well, in order to broadcast their channel legally, he would have to be giving a terrorist organization money... Which is very, very illegal.
Hezbo is an enemy of the US. They should not get protection by our constitution to publish their agenda in our country in my opinion.
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Hezbo is an enemy of the US. They should not get protection by our constitution to publish their agenda in our country in my opinion.
Nope, they're the enemy of Israel. And anyway, they're not getting protection, the American citizens that want to broadcast and watch that television have that protection.
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Nope, they're the enemy of Israel. And anyway, they're not getting protection, the American citizens that want to broadcast and watch that television have that protection.
Hezbo most certainly is the enemy of America. Here is a quote right from the leader's mouth..... Are you gonna "educate" me on this matter also?


``We consider [America] to be an enemy because it wants to humiliate our governments, our regimes, and our peoples," railed Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, at an enormous rally in February 2005. (Video of Nasrallah's speech, which was broadcast on Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV, can be seen at MEMRI TV.) ``It is the greatest plunderer of our treasures, our oil, and our resources. . . . Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat year after year, is: `Death to America!' "
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Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat year after year, is: `Death to America!' "
That says it all right there... in black and white.





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That says it all right there... in black and white.
I know. Later on though he'll complain about how the current conservatives don't debate well and don't back up their statements.
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