[Peace-discuss] Worse than Bush on civil rights

[David Green]

"Prosecutors said Iqbal used satellite dishes on his Staten Island home to distribute broadcasts of Al Manar, the television station of the Lebanon-based organization that has been fighting Israel since the early 1980s."

That is, when Israel invaded and occupied southern Lebanon from 1982-2000, and organized and supported a collaborationist army, the Southern Lebanon Army. Actually, the Shi'ites were not thrilled with the Palestinians living in refugee camps in South Lebanon up to that point, but Israel finally convinced those who founded Hizbollah that Israel is the fundamental problem.