On Hezbollah TV, Syrians Who Support Assad Claim to Be the Victims While supporters of the Syrian uprising have done a remarkable job of documenting the Arab League observer mission - filling YouTube channels with video of outraged citizens describing the violent crackdown on dissent by the Syrian government - viewers of one television station in neighboring Lebanon are getting a very different picture of events in Syria. The station, Al Manar - "the beacon" in Arabic - is a satellite channel run by Hezbollah, the militant movement and political party which relies on support from Syria and Iran. On Tuesday, Al Manar posted a video report on its YouTube channel that showed Syrians telling Arab League monitors that they had been victimized by "armed gangs" opposed to the government. The meetings took place in what appeared to be a government office, adorned with a large portrait of President Bashar al-Assad. According to French subtitles added to the report by Al Manar, one man told the observers: "I swear by the Koran that just because I told the barber that Bashar al-Assad is an honest man, who has not established diplomatic relations with Israel and supports the resistance, they regarded me as a regime informant. They accused me of plotting against them - seeking their arrest - and they burned my house. Another man displayed scars on his back and leg, which were photographed by one of the observers. Near the end of the report, a woman speaking directly to the camera crew said: "My brother was kidnapped. Twenty days after, he was found decapitated and dismembered, with bullets in his chest. Al Manar was in the news last week when an Israeli advocacy group threatened to sue Twitter for offering material support to a terrorist group if it did not immediately shut down the @almanarnews feed. After Al Manar was designated a global terrorist entity by the Treasury Department in 2006, two New Yorkers were jailed for making the station's signal available to customers through satellite dishes in Staten Island. In 2002, Al Manar's news director told Jeffrey Goldberg of The New Yorker, that his station made no pretense of neutrality: "We cover only the victim, not the aggressor. CNN is the Zionist news network, Al Jazeera is neutral, and Al Manar takes the side of the Palestinians. Among the many clips of the observers at work posted online by Syrian activists Tuesday was this video, which, according to the Saudi blogger Ahmed Al Omran, showed a citizen journalist named Khaled Abu Salah explaining that a tank seized from government forces in Homs by the defectors of the Free Syrian Army would now be handed over to the Arab League monitors.