The Thai satellite company that was beaming Al-Manar, Hezbullah’s propaganda channel, to Asian nations, has pulled the plug on Chipmunk Cheeks and his sermons of hate.
A Thai satellite company said Wednesday it stopped airing broadcasts of the Al-Manar television channel after learning it was tied to Hizbullah, a company spokesman said.
The broadcasts of Al-Manar were halted last Friday after just three days of a “test run” beamed through THAICOM satellites, said Piyanuch Sujpluem, a spokeswoman for Shin Satellite Public Company.
Piyanuch said the contract with Al-Manar was a purely commercial deal “without knowledge that such a station had connections to a terrorist group.” She said the deal was terminated after the company found out about the channel’s background from foreign media.
And a big fat cheer to Shin, as well as The Media Line and the JP.
The Media Line, a nonprofit news group focused on Middle East coverage, and The Jerusalem Post reported last week that the THAICOM satellite was beaming the channel to Asia, Australia, the Middle East and most of Europe.
The Jerusalem Post quoted the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center in Israel as saying the Thai satellites had “significantly boosted the resonance of Al-Manar’s propaganda messages around the world after other satellites had stopped airing the channel.”
The center is a nongovernmental group tied to Israel’s intelligence community.
Wow. A win against terrorist propaganda. That seems to be more and more of a rarity these days.
I am very pleasantly surprised.