US BLACKLISTS SUPPOSEDLY SHUT DOWN IRAQI SATELLITE TV CHANNEL
January 11th 2008 02:41
Media Network reports that the US Treasury Department announced on January 9 that it was to blacklist the Iraqi Al-Zawraa satellite TV channel, which it alleged was “fuelling” insurgent activity in Iraq.
BBC Monitoring said the Treasury also blacklisted the station’s owner Mishan al-Juburi, the former Iraqi MP and leader of the Sunni Front for Reconciliation and Liberation, who has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in his absence for embezzling Iraqi government funds.
In blacklisting the TV channel, which appeared to close down in July 2007, a US Treasury press release alleges that the station received funding from Al-Qai’dah and broadcast “open-coded messages through patriotic songs to the Sunni terrorist group the Islamic Army of Iraq”. The station also broadcast recruitment videos for Al-Qai’dah in Iraq and graphic videos of attacks on US forces, the US Treasury said.
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