Anti-Defamation Leaque defames Swiss

[darkbeaver]

Swiss reject terror sponsor charge by US Jewish group

By Stephanie Nebehay

Global Research, April 8, 2008
Reuters

GENEVA, April 8 (Reuters) - Switzerland rejected accusations on Tuesday by the U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that it could be financing terrorism after a Swiss company clinched a multi-billion euro (dollar) deal to buy natural gas from Iran.
The Swiss Foreign Ministry reiterated that the purchase did not violate U.N. Security Council resolutions imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme or U.S. domestic law.


The American Jewish group's full-page advertisement -- which follows a complaint lodged by Israel with Switzerland over the deal -- appeared on Tuesday in newspapers under the banner "Guess who is the world's newest financier of terrorism? SWITZERLAND".


"The reproaches in this advertisement do not correspond to the facts," Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman Lars Knuchel said.

The ad -- which ran in the International Herald Tribune, the leading Swiss financial daily Neue Zuercher Zeitung and Geneva daily Le Temps -- said the deal's "likely result" was Hamas and Hezbollah "may get tens of thousands of additional missiles".


Both Hezbollah, the Shi'ite Muslim movement in Lebanon, and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas which seized control of the Gaza Strip last year, are pro-Iranian parties.


U.S. President George W. Bush has accused Shi'ite Muslim Iran of being "the world's leading state sponsor of terror" and of undermining peace by supporting Hezbollah and Hamas.


The United States has led international efforts to penalise Iran for failing to allay suspicions that it is seeking nuclear weapons and has been urging other countries to cut trade ties.


The ad said that the contract, signed during a Tehran visit last month by Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, would enable Iran to accelerate and complete its nuclear programme.

"Terrorist cells in Europe, the Middle East and around the globe will have access to new weapons and support," it said. "When you finance a terrorist state, you finance terrorism."

The Swiss energy group Elektrizitaetsgesellschaft Laufenburg (EGL) has said its 25-year deal with the National Iranian Gas Export Company was worth between 10 billion euros ($15.73 billion) and 22 billion euros, depending on several factors such as the price of oil.


Calmy-Rey, whose neutral country has worked in the past to find a compromise in the nuclear row, said in Tehran that the deal was important in the long term for both parties.


"This business transaction between the EGL and NIGEC is fully in line with the U.N. sanctions against Iran as well as with the U.S. Iranian Sanctions Act," Knuchel said on Tuesday.


Asked whether the deal might jeopardise neutral Switzerland's role in handling U.S. interests in Iran, as it has done since the 1979 revolution, he said a State Department spokesman had said last week there was no change in U.S. policy.

The Swiss foreign ministry also pointed out that other powers including the European Union (EU), China and Japan were doing business with the Islamic Republic. (Editing by Jonathan Lynn and Charles Dick)

 

[MikeyDB]

Darkbeaver

Aren't the Swiss the ones who have so many "numbered-bank accounts"....where theives and liars can hide their ill-gotten gains....?

If I watch as someone comits a crime and don't report it...I'm part of the problem...If I don't demand accountability (as opposed to just "fees" for hiding the proceeds of crime and criminality....I'm part of the problem.....

I've little respect for these businessmen who make their living from the proceeds they collect as user-fees from henchmen and criminals who hide behind the anonymity of the Swiss banks.

It's hardly a surprise that the Zionists target banks and banking systems...if you're going to manipulate the world, everyone is a target....

 

[Praxius]

The Swiss can do whatever the hell they want, such should any other country. Their dealings with Iran have little to do with Iran's actions and they are not responsible.

That's like me giving you some money for a watch, you then take that money and buy a gun and shoot someone, therefore I'm the criminal?

WTF are you all smoking? If you got a problem with some country doing something illegal, then deal with that country... don't go attacking or meddling with other countries who deal with them.

Hell if that was the case, we should bomb the hell out of ourselves (Canada and the US) for sending billions of dollars to China.... and China doesn't do some nice things either.

Oh, but that wouldn't benifit us any, so it's ok to be hypocritical.

sheish.

 

[lone wolf]

They don't want competition?

Woof!

 

[mrgrumpy]

Hitler's bankers cozying up to Muslims?

I'm not surprised.

 

[darkbeaver]

Hitler's bankers cozying up to Muslims?

I'm not surprised.

While the Swiss are regularly accused of being Hitlers bankers and there is every reason to believe that they were we don't have to stop there we can follow the money to London and then accross the Atlantic to Wall Street and there we find a banker called Bush and his buddy bankers. The Swiss also do some work for the Pope of Rome. A banker will cozy up to anything that smells of profit.

[SIZE=+2]PART 7[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+2]BRITISH FINANCIAL WARFARE: 1929; 1931- 33[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+2]HOW THE CITY OF LONDON CREATED THE GREAT DEPRESSION [/SIZE]
by Webster G. Tarpley
December, 1996

[SIZE=+3]T[/SIZE]he thesis of this paper is that the great economic and financial cataclysm of the first half of the twentieth century, which we have come to know as the Great Depression, was caused by the Bank of England, the British government, and the City of London. The potential for the Great Depression derived from the economic and human destruction wrought by World War I, which was itself a product of British geopolitics and especially of the British policy, exemplified by King Edward VII, of creating an encircling anti-German alliance in order to wage war. The economic destruction of Europe was continued after 1918 by the Peace of Paris (Versailles, St. Germain, Trianon, Neuilly, Sevres) imposed by the Allies on the defeated Central Powers. Especially important here were the 55 billion gold dollars in reparations inflicted on defeated Germany, along with the war debt burden of the supposedly victorious powers themselves. Never during the 1920's did world trade surpass the levels of 1913. Reparations and war debt were a recipe for economic stagnation.

http://www.tarpley.net/29crash.htm