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To: Jamey who wrote (48432)	6/5/2004 11:59:17 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Yes....one would hope sillyvester would take your sage advice to heart.....the hatred sillyvester constantly espouses is very destructive............ J.

To: Jamey who wrote (48432)	6/6/2004 9:21:01 AM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 89467

President Bush was not asking anyone to "blindly follow dogmatic beliefs and hope for the best," when he said you are either with us or against us. You seem to be putting words in his mouth. In the war on terrorism, people and nations are either with us or against us. You either help fight the terrorists, or you tolerate and therefore provide support to them. Even Switzerland understands that. Why don't you? "No neutrality on terror James Zirin's charge that Switzerland has been sluggish in the past in tracking down terrorists is unfounded ("The Arabs and the cuckoo clock," Commentary, Jan. 25). In fact, the contrary is true: The arrests made by Swiss authorities of eight foreign terrorist suspects is only the latest example of Switzerland's long history of counterterrorism enforcement. Repeated assessments by the U.S. administration and U.S. law enforcement officials confirm this as well. After the attacks of September 11, Switzerland acted without delay. The Swiss attorney general's office started its own criminal investigation and created a special terrorism task force, which immediately began to cooperate with its counterparts in the United States and other countries. In fact, Switzerland was the first nation to sign a law enforcement arrangement with the United States, under which Swiss and American federal agents are assigned to each country's terrorism task forces. Among other cases, Swiss authorities were highly supportive in the Chicago arrest of terror suspect Jose Padilla, and today, Switzerland, after the United States, leads the world in the amount of suspected terrorist funds it has identified and frozen. On September 11, Switzerland — unlike many other countries — already had a legal framework and instruments in place to react in a quick and efficient way to such appalling crimes. As a result, the Swiss were able to immediately put into effect the U.N. sanctions concerning al Qaeda, the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. Senior U.S. officials have repeatedly praised Switzerland's cooperation and role as an international model in the global fight against terrorism. It is widely recognized and proved that neither Swiss neutrality nor bank customers' privacy laws are any hindrance in the international fight against terror. Attorney General John Ashcroft publicly noted on June 12, 2002, that the world should take note of the responsible way the Swiss have acted and that the myth of banking secrecy finally has been disproved. As far as the counterterrorism cooperation between our two countries is concerned, Mr. Ashcroft's statement on that day speaks for itself: "America is a safer country because Switzerland cooperates closely with it." CHRISTIAN BLICKENSTORFER Ambassador Embassy of Switzerland Washington "