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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38641-2004Oct16.html
Threats Scuttle Jordan Ramadan Broadcast
(AP/Washington Post)Jamal Halaby - Jordan canceled plans Saturday to broadcast a soap opera about Afghanistan after an Internet threat against everyone from actors to TV executives if the show portrayed the Taliban in a negative light. The broadcast was "suspended indefinitely upon a request from its producer, the Qatari television," said Abdul-Halim Araibyat, director general of the state Jordan Radio and Television Corp.