Terror on the Airwaves

It looks like the U.S. government is reading The Fly's stuff! Following up on yesterday's post, the State Department is poised to declare al Manar a terrorist organization.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The State Department plans to designate Hezbollah's television station, Al-Manar, as a terrorist organization for broadcasting incitement, a senior State Department official said Wednesday.

The designation could come later this week, the official said.

Hezbollah is a Lebanon-based group linked to the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 servicemen. It is already designated a terrorist organization by the United States.

That's all rather interesting. What's more interesting is what yesterday's BBC article missed.

The station, which can be seen in the United States via satellite, has also shown images of a skeletal Statue of Liberty dripping blood and pictures of Adolf Hitler and his forces juxtaposed with President Bush and American troops.

How quaint. I think al Manar's antenna is just asking for a meeting with Tomahawk Cruise Missile.