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Arab TV Viewers Warned About U.S.-funded Station

HeadlineMar 10, 2004

A leading Saudi judge has joined the country’s clerics in warning Saudis from watching the new Arabic satellite tv station, al-Hurra, that is funded by the U.S. government. Meanwhile in Jordan, the country’s trade unions have called for a boycott of the station which they have described as QUOTE “a new colonial tool that seeks to polish the image of the United States and Israel.”

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