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Apple, Google remove Hezbollah TV app

Updated: 3:29 PT

Google and Apple have both removed an application from their respective app stores that Hezbollah was advertising promoting streaming video from its Al-Manar Lebanon-based satellite network.

A spokesman for the Anti-Defamation League said that his organization sent Apple a letter last Friday when it became aware of the app. It was removed by Apple on Sunday.

"We did not have any response from them so it may or may not been a result of our reaching out to them," said the ADL spokesman, Todd Gutnick.

Apple declined comment. A spokesman for Google said Tuesday … Read more

For Hezbollah, it's fiber warfare

Over the past few weeks, things have heated up again in Lebanon, with the U.S.-backed government on one side and the Syrian-backed Hezbollah on the other.

To many U.S. observers, this might be just another case of tensions flaring up in the Middle East. Do not be fooled. This is all about telecommunications policy--and the design of secure, attack-resistant data networks.

But first, a bit of background. Hezbollah and Israel have been at war for some time. In an effort to stop Hezbollah's guerrilla fighters from communicating, Israel has in the past jammed the cell phone … Read more