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Source: http://www.theage.com.au/national/move-to-block-hezbollahs-terror-tv-20080820-3ywi.html

Australia Moves to Block Hizbullah's "Terror TV"

[The Age-Australia] Barney Zwartz - Australian authorities are trying to stop an anti-Semitic satellite TV station broadcasting into the country from Indonesia - which has already rejected U.S. efforts to take the channel off the air. Al-Manar, a channel owned by Hizbullah, the militant Shiite Muslim Lebanese political party, is listed by the U.S. as a banned terrorist organization. Australia lists only its armed wing. Al-Manar promotes and raises money for terrorism, particularly against Israel. It has just started broadcasting again into Asia and the Pacific from Indonesia, using a company part-owned by the Indonesian government. The station is viciously anti-Semitic, as well as anti-Israel and anti-U.S. Australian Arabic Council chairman Roland Jabbour said the channel was very popular and widely watched by Arabic speakers in Australia.

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