LONDON, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- British politicians are calling for the closure of a London-based Arabic radio station that encourages attacks on British troops in Iraq.
Al-Tajdeed Radio is run by Saudi dissident Dr. Muhammad al-Massari, who has often broadcast that British troops in Iraq were legitimate targets, and has posted videos of bomb attacks on them on his Web site.
Conservative Member of Parliament Tony Mercer told the BBC the government should order the broadcasts stopped.
"To hear jihad talk, albeit in Arabic, being broadcast out to Iraq where you are trying to do your job as a soldier, a policeman or whatever, I think it must be desperately demoralizing," he told the BBC. "It should be closed down."
A frequently heard voice on the station is that of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is thought to be al-Qaida's military leader in Iraq.
