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The Daily Star - Politics - Egypt takes militant Iraqi TV channel off air

The Daily Star - Politics - Egypt takes militant Iraqi TV channel off air: "CAIRO: An Iraqi satellite television channel that has angered the US and Iraqi governments for broadcasting anti-US and anti-Shiite news reports has been taken off the air by the Egyptian government, the press reported on Sunday. 'The Iraqi Al-Zawraa satellite channel on NileSat 101 was cut off after it repeatedly interfered with the transmission of several other channels,' the state-owned Al-Gomhuriyah newspaper reported. It said several channels had been experiencing transmission problems that were traced to Al-Zawraa. The channel was initially disconnected on Thursday and the problems stopped immediately. Subsequent efforts to reconnect the channel resulted in further interference. US and Iraqi authorities have repeatedly asked for the channel, owned by Sunni Iraqi politician Mishan al-Juburi, to be taken off the air for what they describe as broadcasts that 'incite' violence. Much of the channel's news coverage is devoted to either insurgent attacks against US forces, or alleged atrocities committed against Iraq's Sunnis by the Shiite-dominated security forces and death squads. The channel was shut down inside Iraq, but for the past eight months has been broadcasting from the Egyptian NileSat satellite which covers much of the region. - AFP"

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