Turning off terror TV

Cliff May:

Slowly and with difficulty, America's military is learning to fight the armed conflicts of the 21st century. Slowly and with difficulty, are we also learning to fight a modern war of ideas.

But a battle was won last week when the U.S. Treasury Department designated Hezbollah's al Manar satellite television operation as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization. By prohibiting transactions between U.S. entities and al Manar, and freezing any assets al Manar may have in the U.S., this designation gives the government the tools it needs to cripple al Manar's internationally broadcast incitements to terrorism.

The Coalition Against Terrorist Media (CATM) worked long and hard to achieve this result. An organization assembled by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, CATM includes Christian, Muslim, Jewish and secular groups and individuals – American and European.

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CATM has briefed more than 800 government officials and private sector executives in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The result: At one time, al Manar was broadcast by 9 satellite providers. Following CATM's campaign, only Egyptian-owned NILESAT, and Saudi-owned ARABSAT continue to spread the terrorist station's poisons in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

The number of multinational corporations advertising on al Manar also has decreased. CATM estimates it has denied al Manar no less than $2 million in advertising revenue to date.

Al Manar officials tried hard to convince U.S. authorities that its broadcasts are an exercise of free speech and therefore deserving of protection. But Treasury wisely concluded that al Manar is not merely the Islamist version of CNN or the Christian Broadcasting Network. Rather, al Manar is Hezbollah attempting to hide behind a corporate veil. Al Manar, said Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey, is an “entity maintained by a terrorist group” and therefore “as culpable as the terrorist group itself."

Actually, Al Manar's principle financial backer is the Militant Islamist regime in Iran -- which also finances, arms and controls Hezbollah, the terrorist group that has killed more Americans than any other, except for al Qaeda. The station serves as propagandist and surrogate for both Hezbollah and Iran's radical mullahs.

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A defeat for Iran's proxy warriors in their undeclared war against the US.

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