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2004-01-09 Europe
Swiss arrests over Saudi attacks
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Posted by Steve 2004-01-09 11:37:30 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 "Aside from banking, what else is there in Switzerland? Unless they were buying Swiss arms?"

Hmm, with the huge international diplomatic presence in Geneva, probably there is also a ready-made support network for going underground ?

Switzerland is heaven for your modern terrorist: secret banks, shady diplomats, and right in the center of Europe...
Posted by Carl in N.H. 2004-1-9 12:13:59 PM||   2004-1-9 12:13:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 One key area of investigation has been into whether Switzerland’s banking systems could have been used in the funding of terror groups

Swiss banking has been used in funding all manner of facist, religious, mafia, embezzlers, NGO ripoffs. It wasn't oil for food, it was oil for a numbered account.

The Swiss have been playing this game forever. But now it's a nasty war, a real war, and the Swiss are in it up to their eyeballs.

If they don't open up their banking system then they are "with the terroist" and should be targeted just as much as Saddam was, equally!

But they are milky white people, they have wonderful chalets in the high mountains, they ski and ride bicycles, they are for peace, love peace, hate war, wont take sides, so honest. Just skimming off the top, No?
Posted by Lucky 2004-1-9 12:27:45 PM||   2004-1-9 12:27:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I make it a point not to trust people who yodel.
Posted by Fred  2004-1-9 12:48:17 PM||   2004-1-9 12:48:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 My maternal grandfather's ancestors were Swiss. When he sold his small construction company here in the States, he bought the top of a small mountain nearby, refused to pave the driveway up (despite snowy winters) and posted signs saying "Trespassers Will Be Violated".



He meant it, too. I adored him as a kid but he was a really stubborn, uncooperative cuss with adults, I suspect. I also suspect a similar temperament still lurks in the cantons.

Posted by anon descendent  2004-1-9 2:04:22 PM||   2004-1-9 2:04:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 From the movie, The Third Man [dir. Carol Reed]:

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Harry Lime [Orson Welles]
Posted by Eric Jablow  2004-1-9 2:48:25 PM||   2004-1-9 2:48:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes! thanks Eric. LOL.
Posted by Dr. Zorba 2004-1-9 6:01:32 PM||   2004-1-9 6:01:32 PM|| Front Page Top

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