Pardon me, but how fucking stupid do you have to be to not realize that Al-Manar is the AV Club of Hezbollah.
Broadcast industry executives are, for the most part, greedy and oblivious pieces of rat shit, but the Thais at THAICOM really take the cake.
Piyanuch said the contract with Al-Manar was a purely commercial deal "without knowledge that such a station had connections to a terrorist group." She said the deal was terminated after the company found out about the channel's background from foreign media.The US government in 2006 declared the station a "terrorist entity."
Sheesh.
This is galling especially considering that the southern end of Thailand is being slowly destroyed by jihad.