Posted on 07/31/2006 10:36:42 AM PDT by Alouette
IDF intelligence unit manages to hack al-Manar broadcast, plant caricature of Hizbullah's leader with caption: 'Your days are numbered'
After repeated Israeli efforts to destroy Hizbullah's al-Manar television station have failed, an IDF intelligence unit succeeded this week in hacking the station's live broadcasts, planting Israeli PR messages in the transmissions..
The al-Manar channel regularly airs juicy propaganda against Israel, including reports of "heroic" and "successful" operations by Hizbullah fighters against IDF special forces.
However, this weekend the IDF prepared a surprise for the Lebanese and Arab viewers of the channel: The broadcast was interrupted and caricatures of Nasrallah appeared on the screen, accompanied by captions reading: "Your days are numbered" and "Nasrallah, your time is up. Soon you won't be with us anymore."
Additionally, Hizbullah and al-Manar internet sites also received "special treatment" by Israeli technical specialists, and several were erased from the internet.
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"You have no chance to survive make your time."
All your face are belong to us.
I wondered the other day why they didn't do this and I wonder about the al Qaeda sites.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
"Take off every F-15. For great justice."
So they hack into the enemies broadcast system and the best they can do is issue a couple threats?
Why bother?
Seems to me there would be better ways to leverage this like some message aimed at turning the viewer against the enemy.
Great news.
Great news.
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Worth repeating;)
I hope they repeat this with Al-Jeezera, the voice of lunacy.
That's what I was thinking. They should create some fake Hez broadcasts, splice footage together. LOL - they could announce Hezbullah's surrender!
cool. I bet there were a few Ayraabs with that surprised look on their face when they tuned in to that evening's "heroic martyrdom news report". I look forward to the next broadcast with pictures of nasrallah with his swollen tongue sticking out of his mouth like Zarkman.
"Additionally, Hizbullah and al-Manar internet sites also received "special treatment" by Israeli technical specialists, and several were erased from the internet."
Good work.
The United States should have clamped down on iraqi media after the invasion of that country. Apparently the israelis are a little more logical, in that respect.
One would think that a TV transmission antenna/tower is an easily identifiable target and also that there are rather few of them there. Why then is it so difficult to plug that "manar"?
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