The Lebanese TV station al-Manar has been forced off the air in the United States. On Saturday the State Department took the unusual step of declaring the TV station a terrorist organization. The station is run by Hezbollah. The station’s news director, told The Associated Press, “This is a blatant attack on press freedoms and an exercise in intellectual terrorism against the voices that are opposed to U.S. and Israeli policies.” The station had been available in the United States by satellite TV.