WikiLeaks: Saudi Arabia Attempts to Remove Al-Alam TV from Satellites

WikiLeaks: Saudi Arabia Attempts to Remove Al-Alam TV from Satellites
Sat Jun 20, 2015 16:17:33

WikiLeaks on Friday began publishing more than half a million top-secret documents from Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry, including removing Al-Alam TV from Arabsat satellite, Al-Alam TV reports.

 

The "neutralization" and "containment" approaches are not the only techniques the Saudi Ministry is willing to employ.

 

In cases where "containment" fails to produce the desired effect, the Kingdom moves on to “confrontation”. In one example is mentioned, the Foreign Minister was following a Royal Decree dated 20 January 2010 to remove Islamic Republic of Iran’s Arabic-language news network, Al-Alam TV, from the main Riyadh-based regional communications satellite operator, Arabsat. After the plan failed, Saud Al Faisal sought to "weaken its broadcast signal".

Read more at: https://wikileaks.org/saudi-cables/buying-silence

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