The underground voice of Hezbollah that Israel is still unable to silence

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Aug 5, 2006 8:20 PM EDT

Article Source: The Times

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Every night of this 25-day-old conflict, Israeli warplanes have tried to destroy Hezbollah's television station, al-Manar. Every night they have failed.

Somehow the satellite network continues to pump out its potent mix of news and propaganda from makeshift studios, its continued survival a deepening embarrassment to Israel's much-vaunted military, and a growing inspiration to Hezbollah sympathisers.

The station's five-storey headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut was bombed in the first hours of the war, injuring five staff. But the skeleton team working that night knew the evacuation drill and the location of a back-up studio, so al-Manar was off the air for only ten minutes.

For the next three nights the jets returned, pounding even the rubble with 500lb bombs after rumours that al-Manar was broadcasting from an underground bunker.

The station is now believed to be broadcasting from apartments in some of Beirut's most fashionable streets, empty office blocks and basements, but the whereabouts of al-Manar's newsreaders is shrouded in as much secrecy and protection as the hiding place of Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader.

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Dennis M Wright

I can teld which seeds are Keld seeds as soon as the titles appear on the front page, before I even open them.

I think I am developing a form of ESP.

What other possible explanation?

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#1 - Sun Aug 6, 2006 6:03 AM EDT

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ignoblus

Al Manar has been banned in the US, France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, and Australia. The US considers it a terrorist organization. If Hezbollah is using Al Manar to serve its warfare, then the station is a valid military target.

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#1.1 - Mon Aug 7, 2006 1:52 PM EDT

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Ali Mostofi

DMM:

All you need to do is to keep reading stuff from The Independant and Guardian, and recently The Times.

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#2 - Sun Aug 6, 2006 6:07 AM EDT

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ignoblus

You mean this Independeant? And this Guardian?

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#2.1 - Mon Aug 7, 2006 1:56 PM EDT

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Dennis M Wright

Agreed. Those are the main culprits in the UK.

And the BBC in general (albeit not as "in your face") and Channel 4.

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1 vote

#3 - Sun Aug 6, 2006 6:13 AM EDT

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Ali Mostofi

DMM

Oh I am there in their forum. I forgot. Well said. They are expected to report all the news. As a taxpayer, I always reprint the stuff they miss out, and then they try to obfuscate the discussions I create. It's a lot of fun. Go here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbtoday/F2767105

and see it all.

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#4 - Sun Aug 6, 2006 8:03 AM EDT

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