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Hezbollah TV broadcasting to China, Australia via Indonesia satellite
By The Associated Press
Tags: Al-Manar, Indonesia 

The U.S. government is concerned that a television channel backed by the Hezbollah militant group is using an Indonesian satellite to broadcast to the Asia-Pacific region, an American Embassy spokesman said Thursday.

Al-Manar TV has rented Indonesia's Palapa C2 satellite through operator PT Indosat on a contract due to expire in April 2011, according to Indosat spokeswoman Adita Irawati.

The U.S. government declared Al-Manar a terrorist entity in 2006.
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Al-Manar and its partners and affiliates form a recognized arm of Hezbollah, said Tristram Perry, a public diplomacy officer at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta.

Perry said the station "incites violence and hatred." The U.S. government has informally shared concerns with authorities in Jakarta about Al-Manar
broadcasting from Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim population, he said.

Those concerns were dismissed by Communication and Information Minister
Muhammad Nuh, who called the broadcasts a pure business to business deal. He noted that stations such as the BBC also use the satellite. The government holds about 14 percent of Indosat's shares and has a veto right over strategic decisions.

"The U.S. government has no right to intervene in Indosat's affairs," Nuh said. "It is up to Indosat."

Irawati said the deal would only end if the government ordered its
cancellation. We will follow whatever the regulator decides, she said.

The Indonesian satellite is used to beam Al-Manar's often anti-Israeli and anti-American programs to China, Southeast Asia and Australia.

In January, a Thai satellite company stopped airing broadcasts of the Middle East-based television channel after learning it was tied to the Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah
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  1.   Concerned over CNN 11:51  |  Imad 14/08/08
  2.   This is Expected from Indonesia 12:44  |  Craig 14/08/08
  3.   The US would do well to clean up their own media. 12:45  |  Maureen Ann 14/08/08
  4.   I watch Al Manar 13:20  |  Adel 14/08/08
  5.   Good more poison via TV for boneheads in asia 15:27  |  JP 14/08/08
  6.   Hezbollah TV and Israeli TV 15:34  |  David Pacifici 14/08/08
  7.   WE WON`T SURRENDER TO ZIONIST PRESSURE 15:57  |  indrajaya 14/08/08
  8.   TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT, AMERICANS 16:09  |  indrajaya 14/08/08
  9.   Al Manar tv is an thousand times more radical than Fox News. 16:39  |  JP 14/08/08
  10.   One of the major causes of Israel`s difficult position in... 16:55  |  Jean Van Daem 14/08/08
  11.   What is Israel waiting for its own Sat.- TV broadcast worldwide? 17:02  |  Fortuna Benmayor 14/08/08
  12.   Maureen Ann Loves Al-Manar WITH Its Holocaust Denial 17:39  |  Ruth 14/08/08
  13.   Indrajaya Displays Hateful Intolerance 17:43  |  Craig 14/08/08
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  15.   # 14, BIG SUR 18:03  |  indrajaya 14/08/08
  16.   #3 Maureen Anne, most Aussies are intelligent 18:07  |  Big Sur 14/08/08
  17.   Sorry Indy Incorrect 18:28  |  Big Sur 14/08/08
  18.   Seems Indy that you know nothing of your own country 18:33  |  Big Sur 14/08/08
  19.   Indrajaya to Big Sur 18:37  |  Craig 14/08/08
  20.   # 17, BIG SUR 18:55  |  indrajaya 14/08/08
  21.   # 19, CRAIG 19:10  |  indrajaya 14/08/08
  22.   Indy still no understanding 19:35  |  Big Sur 14/08/08
  23.   # 22, BIG SUR 19:53  |  indrajaya 14/08/08
  24.   Indrayaja Your son is unusual if he thinks it is funny 20:36  |  Big sur 14/08/08
  25.   #18 Big Sur......it isn`t that Indy is unaware 21:29  |  Lynn 14/08/08
  26.   # 8 Indy....some days you are just so full of it 21:40  |  Lynn 14/08/08
  27.   Have u watched al-Manar? 20:55  |  Roger 21/08/08
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