EL SALVADOR: TERRORISM: TRACKING EXPANSION OF

S E C R E T SAN SALVADOR 003422 SIPDIS NOFORN E.O. 12958: DECL: 10 YEARS TAGS: ASEC PTER PREL ANET ES SUBJECT: EL SALVADOR: TERRORISM: TRACKING EXPANSION OF AL-MANAR Classified By: CLASSIFIED BY DCM MICHAEL A. BUTLER, FOR REASONS 1.4(B) AND (D) (S/NF) After consulting with the Economic, Political, RSO, and Public Affairs sections, no open-source material available indicates an attempt of Al-Manar to enter the cable TV programming. A check of the local cable companies site indicates a wide variety of international programming is currently available: Italian, French, Bolivian, Mexican, Spanish, Chilean, Taiwanese, American, Canadian, Mexican, and German. No Arabic-language programming currently exists, but a channel called "ARP" was recently removed from the service, which had Arabic language programming. Barclay