Al Manar, Hezbollah's television outlet, has been getting US Internet service by hijacking connections, the San Antonio Express-News reports.
Earlier this week, Al Manar successfully connected through Broadwing Communications, which is based in Austin, Texas. The television station hacked into a Broadwing customer's site, the newspaper said.
"Broadwing acted decisively to terminate service as soon as we concluded that our services were being used in violation of our Acceptable Use Policy," a Broadwing vice president, Donovan Dillon, told the newspaper in an e-mail.
Aaron Weisburd, the founder of a group that tracks Islamic extremist Websites, said after Broadwing took the Al Manar site down it reappeared a few days later on a private cable line in New York.
The US Treasury Department classified Al Manar as a terrorist entity in March, making it illegal for any US companies to do business with it.
Hezbollah TV 'hijacking' Internet use
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