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Bad News For Hezbollah Honeymooners

January 16, 2008 · Mustapha Hamoui

As of today Hezbollah’s satellite channel Almanar will be taken off the air in Thailand.

From the Bankok Post: “Thaicom switches off ‘Terror TV’”

Thaicom announced on Wednesday it had ended satellite broadcasts by the Hezbollah propaganda TV channel al-Manar, a service which had brought worldwide protest.”Shin Satellite would like to confirm that the company had already terminated the Al-Manar TV test signal from Thaicom on (last) Friday, January 11, 2008,” said Shin Satellite Pcl (SatTel), the owner of Thaicom satellites.

Thaicom would have been able to broadcast Almanar to Australia and Southeast Asia and some parts of Africa and the Middle East.