Hezbollah speech not properly screened

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Source: Associated Press

Hezbollah speech not properly screened

By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer
Wed May 16, 5:20 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Overseers of the United States government's Arabic-
language satellite television network say a speech by Hezbollah
leader Hassan Nasrallah was not screened for anti-Israel content
before broadcast because no supervisor spoke Arabic.

"Mistakes were made," Joaquin Blaya, of the Broadcasting Board of
Governors, told the House Middle East subcommittee Wednesday,
referring to the broadcast last December and others by the network,
Al-Hurra, that he said "lacked journalistic or academic merit."

The subcommittee chairman, Rep. Gary L. Ackerman, D-N.Y., said in
several instances Nasrallah used the U.S. government's satellite
television network as a platform for inciting a crowd to violence
against Israel.

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