Thursday, May 10, 2007
"New Jersey lawmakers rank among those trying to have the director of a U.S.-based satellite news channel fired from his job because he has broadcast interviews with incendiary anti-Israel figures.Several lawmakers in the U.S. House want to see Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice fire al Hurra news director Larry Register because, in December 2006, he had the U.S. government-funded news channel, al Hurra, broadcast an hour-long interview with Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, a Shiite group that has been deemed a terrorist organization by the U.S. government."