Insurgent Resurgent

December 01, 2006

Last month, Sunni-run TV channel al-Zawraa was banned by Iraqi authorities. After a few weeks, it returned to the air as an explicitly anti-Shiite pirate broadcast. McClatchy Newspapers correspondent Hannah Allam describes the civil war that’s playing out on the airwaves.

Listen to examples of English-language propaganda being broadcast on Al-Zawraa:
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