Inability To Jam Hezbollah Satellite TV Signal Spurs Israeli Research

摘要

Israeli defense officials, who were frustrated by their inabili-ty to silence Hezbollah television broadcasts during an unsuccessful five-week campaign to roust the Islamist group from southern Lebanon, have identified a need to be able to disrupt transmissions of enemy programming carried by commercial satellites. Despite directly targeting Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasral-lah and the organization's Al-Man-ar TV network with bombs and electronic warfare, Israel was unable to prevent the radical Shiite cleric from reaching his audience on a regular basis. In interviews at Israel Defense Forces (IDF) headquarters here and at Israel's Galilee-based Northern Command, officials said Nasrallah's public resilience in the face of the onslaught had given a morale boost to Hezbollah's fighters and sympathizers.