Islamic Television in Iraq: All jihad all the time... incites US hatred and calls on sectarian violence and

We should demand this station pulled off the air... or pull our troops, funds etc out of the whole Middle East and let them all - every Islamic nation - sort out thier own problems... and deal with the consequences if they don't.

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Stop the broadcasts of Al-Qaeda's TV propaganda
Al-Zawraa, operated by the Baathist-backed Islamic Army of Iraq, has been broadcasting terrorist propaganda out of a secret location in Syria since November 2006.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
by James A. Phillips and William Schirano

The United States has, for some time, found itself a step behind radical terrorist groups in information warfare. Now comes the troubling news that an Iraqi group affiliated with al-Qaeda has taken another step forward with its own 24-hour television station, al-Zawraa. The U.S. should attempt to halt satellite distribution of this network and refocus its public diplomacy efforts in the Middle East.
Al-Zawraa, operated by the Baathist-backed Islamic Army of Iraq, has been broadcasting terrorist propaganda out of a secret location in Syria since November 2006. According to a recent article, al-Zawraa is carried by the Egyptian state-owned satellite company Nilesat, which can broadcast the television channel across the entire Middle East.
Though much of the media in the region has portrayed the U.S. in a less-than-positive light, al-Zawraa has gone a step further: promoting violence against the U.S. in Iraq by using the images of "destroyed mosques, dead women and children, women weeping at the death of their family, bloodstained floors, the destruction of U.S. humvees and armored vehicles, and insurgents firing mortars, RPGs, rockets and AK-47s," according to military blogger Bill Roggio, who reported from Fallujah.

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Read more:

http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=7536

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Here's more on what's behind the jihad TV:

Why is Egypt airing insurgent TV from Iraq?

from the January 17, 2007 edition

Christian Science Monitor
Al Zawraa's broadcasting of Sunni attacks on American soldiers highlights sectarian politics.
By Sarah Gauch Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
CAIRO - Al Zawraa television station, the face of Iraq's Sunni insurgency, shows roadside bombs blowing up American tanks, dead and bloody Iraqi children, and insurgent snipers taking aim and firing.
And all this blatant anti-Americanism is broadcasting 24/7 on an Egyptian government-controlled satellite provider from one of Washington's closest allies. Even though Iraq and the US have asked Egypt to pull the plug, the station remains on the air.
The question is, why?

While Nilesat, which broadcasts Al Zawraa, argues that it's airing the channel for purely commercial reasons, analysts point to the political benefits for Egypt.
Some say the country's reluctance to shut down the channel shows that Egypt, predominantly Sunni, may be taking a stand against what it sees as the unjust aggressiveness of Iraq's Shiite-led government and the dangers of Iran's influence there.
"With Iran flexing its muscles in Iraq and Lebanon and talking about becoming a nuclear power, all of this puts the Sunni Arab regimes – Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan – on the defensive," says Lawrence Pintak, director of American University in Cairo's television journalism program and author of "Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam, & the War of Ideas."

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0117/p01s03-wome.html