IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1308 
Condemning the broadcasting of incitement to violence against Americans 
and the United States in media based in the Middle East, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 26, 2008 
Mr. BILIRAKIS (for himself, Mr. CARNAHAN, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. CAN-
TOR, Mr. PENCE, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, 
Mr. ROYCE, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. POE, Mr. 
FORTUN˜O, Mr. INGLIS
of South Carolina, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. 
MCCOTTER, Mr. LINDER, Mr. KIRK, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. WELLER of Illi-
nois, Mr. SALI, Mr. RAMSTAD, Mr. PORTER, Mr. TERRY, and Mr. SHAYS) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning the broadcasting of incitement to violence 
against Americans and the United States in media based 
in the Middle East, and for other purposes. 
Whereas the freedom of the press and freedom of expression 
are the foundations of free and prosperous societies 
worldwide, and are among America’s most cherished val-
ues; 
Whereas the freedom of the press and the freedom of expres-
sion comes the responsibility to repudiate purveyors of in-
citement to violence; 
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Whereas for years, media outlets in the Middle East have re-
peatedly published or broadcasted incitements to violence 
against the United States and its citizens; 
Whereas Hezbollah, a Foreign Terrorist Organization based 
in Lebanon and sponsored by Iran and Syria, launched 
the television station al-Manar in 1991, and has funded 
and operated it ever since as a ‘‘station of resistance’’, 
intending to use it as a weapon to further its goals of vio-
lently combating the United States and Israel; 
Whereas al-Manar launched a satellite television channel in 
2000 and is estimated to be viewed by over 10,000,000 
people worldwide every day; 
Whereas al-Manar has, at various times, been broadcast on 
satellites viewable on every continent except Antarctica, 
and is reportedly presently viewable on the satellite pro-
viders ArabSat, NileSat, and reportedly, as of April 
2008, Indonesia’s Palapa C2, which is owned by Indo-
nesia Telkom, a company controlled by the Government 
of Indonesia; 
Whereas Hezbollah leader Hassan Hasrallah and other 
Hezbollah officials frequently appear on al-Manar to call 
for ‘‘Death to America’’; 
Whereas al-Manar has broadcasted over 2 dozen video clips 
of insurgent attacks against American and Coalition 
forces in Iraq in 2008 to date; 
Whereas, on March 1, 2008, al-Manar correspondent Ali 
Shu’aytu compared the USS Cole’s deployment off the 
coast of Lebanon to the 1983 deployment of United 
States troops in Lebanon, stating ‘‘at that time, the 
[USS New Jersey] was safe off the Lebanese coast; how-
ever, it was forced to retreat after [the] targeting [of] the 
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United States Embassy as well as the Marines’ head-
quarters in Beirut and [the] killing [of] hundreds of the 
United States occupation soldiers’’; 
Whereas Rasim al-Marwani, an Iraqi supporter of the Shi’a 
militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, stated on April 9, 2008, 
in an al-Manar broadcast that he supported armed ‘‘re-
sistance’’ against United States forces in Iraq, saying, ‘‘it 
is our highest priority to build up the resistance . . . we 
think that the armed resistance and military escalation is 
some kind of resistance, while believing the resistance is 
legal’’; 
Whereas the United States, France, the Netherlands, and 
Spain have banned broadcasts of al-Manar, and the 
United States has designated al-Manar as a Foreign Ter-
rorist Organization and a Specially Designated Global 
Terrorist; 
Whereas al-Aqsa TV, a television station that is run by the 
Foreign Terrorist Organization Hamas, is based in the 
Gaza Strip, began broadcasting in 2006 in Gaza, and 
began broadcasting internationally that same year via the 
NileSat satellite provider; 
Whereas, on March 30, 2008, al-Aqsa TV broadcast a puppet 
show that depicted an Arab child stabbing the President 
of the United States to death and turning the White 
House into a mosque; 
Whereas the Government of Iran, through its state corpora-
tion Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), con-
trols over a dozen land-based and satellite television 
channels, including Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 3, 
Channel 4, Tehran TV, the Islamic Republic of Iran 
News Network, Tehran TV, Press TV, and al-Alam; 
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Whereas Press TV, Iran’s English language satellite tele-
vision network, is transmitted via the satellite providers 
ArabSat, NileSat, AsiaSat, HotBird, HispaSat, IntelSat, 
and Galaxy, and is viewable in North America, South 
America, the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa; 
Whereas al-Alam TV, Iran’s Arabic language satellite tele-
vision network, is transmitted via the satellite providers 
ArabSat, NileSat, AsiaSat, HotBird, TelStar, and Gal-
axy, and is viewable in North America, the Middle East, 
Europe, Asia and Africa; 
Whereas many Iranian state-controlled television channels 
have broadcast incitements to violence against the United 
States and Americans, including coverage of rallies and 
speeches at which Iranian leaders, clerics, children and 
mass audiences have declared ‘‘Death to America!’’; 
Whereas, on March 6, 2008, al-Alam broadcast a warning 
from an Iraqi insurgent that if the USS Cole was not 
withdrawn from off the coast of Lebanon, his group 
would be ‘‘targeting all the United States interests, espe-
cially the warships [docked] in Umm Qasr beaches in 
southern Iraq’’; 
Whereas al-Zawra is a presently non-operational Iraqi sat-
ellite television channel that broadcast during 2006 and 
2007 and was last observed broadcasting in July of 2007; 
Whereas al-Zawra is owned and operated by Mishan al- 
Jaburi, a former Iraqi Member of Parliament who was 
expelled and fled to Syria in February of 2006, and has 
been sentenced in absentia by an Iraqi court to 15 years 
imprisonment for embezzling funds from the Government 
of Iraq; 
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Whereas the Government of Iraq banned al-Zawra in Novem-
ber of 2006 for inciting ‘‘violence and murder’’; 
Whereas, on January 9, 2008, the Department of the Treas-
ury prohibited all transactions between any United States 
person and al-Zawra and al-Jaburi, under Executive 
Order 13438, ‘‘for threatening the peace and stability of 
Iraq and the Government of Iraq’’; 
Whereas al-Zawra broadcast videos of violent attacks against 
United States forces in Iraq that showed the destruction 
of United States humvees and armored vehicles, recruit-
ment videos for the Abu Bakr al-Sadiq al-Salafi Bat-
talion of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and videos that feature promi-
nently ‘‘Juba’’, a sniper that allegedly targeted Coalition 
forces, and called for viewers to engage in violence 
against Coalition forces in Iraq; 
Whereas, in 2007, al-Zawra aired a program widely nick-
named ‘‘Hidden Camera Jihad’’, a compilation of attacks 
filmed and executed by insurgents against Coalition 
forces in Iraq and accompanied by sound effects, scornful 
English language captions, and a ‘‘laugh track’’; 
Whereas multiple reports indicate that after being banned in 
Iraq, al-Zawra broadcast via a satellite uplink based in 
Syria; 
Whereas reports indicate that during its observed period of 
operation, al-Zawra broadcast on satellite providers in-
cluding ArabSat, NileSat and EutelSat, and was avail-
able in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe; 
Whereas al-Rafidayn, an Arabic language satellite television 
channel based in Egypt, focuses on Iraq, is broadcast via 
NileSat to the Middle East and North Africa, and is af-
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filiated with the Association of Muslim Scholars, an anti- 
American Islamist group based in Iraq; 
Whereas al-Rafidayn has repeatedly broadcast video clips pro-
duced by Sunni insurgent and terrorist groups in Iraq, 
and the channel’s news broadcasts have frequently broad-
cast videos, poems, and songs that praise those groups 
and their attacks on United States forces in Iraq; 
Whereas al-Rafidayn has repeatedly broadcast claims of re-
sponsibility for attacks on United States forces in Iraq by 
insurgent and terrorist groups; 
Whereas, on February 29, 2008, al-Rafidayn broadcast an 
interview with Nizar al-Samarra’i, a writer and political 
analyst, in which he called on all Muslims to engage in 
‘‘jihad’’ in Iraq; 
Whereas the ArabSat satellite provider was founded by the 
Arab League and is governed by a General Assembly 
comprised of the communications ministers, or their rep-
resentatives, of Arab League member countries; 
Whereas the NileSat satellite provider is controlled by the 
Government of Egypt; 
Whereas television channels that broadcast incitement to vio-
lence against Americans, the United States, and others 
have demonstrated the ability to shift their operations to 
different countries and their transmissions to different 
satellite providers in order to continue broadcasting and 
to evade accountability; 
Whereas television channels such as al-Manar, al-Aqsa, al- 
Zawra, and others that broadcast incitement to violence 
against the United States and Americans, aid Foreign 
Terrorist Organizations in the key functions of recruit-
ment, fundraising, and propaganda; 
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Whereas the broadcast of incitement to violence against 
Americans and the United States on television channels 
and other media that are accessible in the United States 
may increase the risk of radicalization and recruitment of 
Americans into Foreign Terrorist Organizations that seek 
to carry out acts of violence against American targets 
and on American soil; 
Whereas the use of media outlets by advocates of violence 
against American forces pose a clear and present danger 
to the security of United States service members and 
American civilians serving in the Middle East; and 
Whereas it is imperative for the United States to counter the 
threat to American service and civilian personnel that re-
sults from the control or use of media outlets by Specially 
Designated Global Terrorists and other entities that in-
tend harm to our Nation’s interests: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the broadcast of incitement to vi-
olence against Americans and the United States by 
media based in the Middle East; 
(2) urges governments throughout the Middle 
East, American allies, and other responsible nations 
to officially and publically repudiate purveyors of in-
citement to violence against Americans and the 
United States; and 
(3) calls on the President to— 
(A) designate al-Aqsa TV as a Specially 
Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT); 
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(B) designate as SDGTs satellite providers 
that knowingly and willingly contract with enti-
ties designated as SDGTs to broadcast their 
channels for providing financial, material, or 
technological support to terrorist entities; and 
(C) take into consideration state sponsor-
ship of anti-American incitement to violence 
when determining the level of assistance to, and 
frequency and nature of relations with, regional 
states. 
Æ 
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