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Qadhafi wants to split Switzerland

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The only english "text" I found was from the Libyan "news" agency. (it's called jananews)

The Leader of the Revolution, President of the African Union, addresses the session of the G8 summit dedicated to the discussion of African issues .. 3rd Addendum
L'Aquila,Italy -14.07.09(JANA)

The Leader tackled the real causes of the so-called piracy on the African continent. He confirmed that this is a reaction to Somali economic territorial waters area which are being plundered of their marine wealth. He pointed to the resolution of Sirte 2009 regarding the establishment of African frontex to protect African foreign borders.
He announced that he is currently involved in drafting an agreement between the Somalis and the world stipulating international respect for the Somali economic territorial waters in return for the Somalis to stop what they are doing now.
The Leader called for the need to make the voice of poor countries heard in the summit. He stressed the need not to limit forthcoming meetings only to the rich countries of oil, gas and industry.
The Leader called for the need to make the voice of these poor countries head: Malawi, Burkina, Guinea-Bissau, Chad, Niger, Burundi and Djibouti.
The Leader dedicated part of his speech to explaining the source of of terrorism and revealed that the extremist thought is the real moral source of terrorism and that could be identified.
As for the material source for terrorism the Leader confirmed that it is represented in the so-called Switzerland which is the financier of international terrorism as most secret bank accounts of terrorists are there.
The Leader confirmed that Switzerland is an international mafia not a state. He noted that it is composed of an Italian group which has to be returned to Italy, a German group that has to be returned to Germany and a third French group that has to be returned to France.
He confirmed that Italy, Germany and France are responsible states, respect international law and there are no secret bank accounts and no mafia.
The leaders stressed that fighting terrorism drying up the material source of terrorism by dismembering the Swiss entity and drying the source represented by extremist tendencies.
Cont...
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Better articles: French German

To sum up what happened for you non-interested guys:

- Qadhafis son gets arrested in Geneva sometimes last year. He is accused of beating up his cleaning lady.
- Immediately afterwards, Qadhafi threatens Switzerland and stops all Oil export and takes all his money out of Switzerland (which doesn't bother that much...).
- He asks for an apology, doesn't get one. Meanwhile the son gets released (I'm not sure why exactly but it was in a perfectly normal legal process)
-Qadhafi imprisons two Swiss business man for no apparent reason. Soon later, they can leave the Libyan Prison, but are not allowed to leave the country (they are staying in the Swiss Embassy).
- This year - still nothing more has happened - he denies the new Swiss ambassador entry to Libya (the old one got retired).
- Some days ago, in l'aquila, he proposes to split Switzerland up and give it to France, Italy and Germany.
-The interpretation I have seen so far say that Qadhafi had run out of enemies as the US and the "West" became nicer. So he needs one to bash it at home (internal politics).

So, my question to you would be: Do we Swiss really make that good a enemy and devil image?
 
he's making a good point.

and the reality of power makes it a hypothetical, but he's also got a point.

switzerland is profiting off being a safe haven for the capital of a lot of illegal operations.
 
:lol: of course, he has no hidden motives, he only wants to fight terrorsm, honest. :mischief:

Oh well, another third world dictator with too big an ego. If his son didn't want to be subject to swiss laws, he shouldn't have entered Switzerland. I wish he's just pull his money like he threatened and be done with it. It's not like any respectable leader will listen to his silly notions. So all he can do is rage.

holy king said:
he's making a good point.
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the point being?
 
Finally someone had balls to attack that rogue state. I fully agree with split, all bankers should be executed and surrounding countries should annex cantons with same languages.
 
Oh Qadhafi, that card. I wonder how that pan-Arab union is going? Or that pan-African union? With Libya at the forefront of course.
 
Why would we be a pariah state?

And I have also heard that the Swiss Diplomacy had failed horribly. Reason: They (we) aren't used to be in a direct confrontation with another country. We are very able when the task is to mediate (Cuba, Iran where we represent the USA, Georgia where we represent Russia,...), but in diplomatic confrontation we suck...
 
mitsho said:
The only english "text" I found was from the Lybian "news" agency. (it's called jananews)



Better articles: French German

To sum up what happened for you non-interested guys:

- Qadhafis son gets arrested in Geneva sometimes last year. He is accused of beating up his cleaning lady.
- Immediately afterwards, Qadhafi threatens Switzerland and stops all Oil export and takes all his money out of Switzerland (which doesn't bother that much...).
- He asks for an apology, doesn't get one. Meanwhile the son gets released (I'm not sure why exactly but it was in a perfectly normal legal process)
-Qadhafi imprisons two Swiss business man for no apparent reason. Soon later, they can leave the Lybian Prison, but are not allowed to leave the country (they are staying in the Swiss Embassy).
- This year - still nothing more has happened - he denies the new Swiss ambassador entry to Lybia (the old one got retired).
- Some days ago, in l'aquila, he proposes to split Switzerland up and give it to France, Italy and Germany.
-The interpretation I have seen so far say that Qadhafi had run out of enemies as the US and the "West" became nicer. So he needs one to bash it at home (internal politics).

So, my question to you would be: Do we Swiss really make that good a enemy and devil image?
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A small correction: It's Libya :)

Anyway, I don't think there's anything that makes Switzerland a good enemy. Actually more the opposite, IMO, since Switzerland has been neutral for a long time. It's just people like Gaddafi who can get mad at anyone.
 
holy king said:
that switzerland would be a pariah state if the balance of power and international relations were different.

basically a white collar version of somalia.
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you mean if the real powers were 3rd world dictatorships? what is it that switzerland does so bad (as opposed to all the other western nations) that makes it so evil? :confused:

oagersnap said:
A small correction: It's Libya
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that always gets me as well. I blame german pronunciation ;)
 
switzerland is the financial base of illegal operations all across the globe.
you cant deny that.

turn around global realities (switzerland going from being white collar somalia to something closer toactual somalia) and you got a pariah state.

that's all quadaffi was saying.
 
Azale said:
Oh Qadhafi, that card. I wonder how that pan-Arab union is going? Or that pan-African union? With Libya at the forefront of course.
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I'm sure Gadhafi will manage to bungle that too; his "Arab unity" thing came to a fold once he supported Iran in the Iran-Iraq war... :lol:

Libya's attempt at merging with other nations is as follows:

Egypt, 1970 and 1972
Tunisia, 1974 (agreement lasted less than 48 hours)
Syria, 1980 (only Syria and Libya were pro-Iran)
Chad, 1981
Morocco, 1984
Algeria, 1987
Sudan, 1990
 
holy king said:
switzerland is the financial base of illegal operations all across the globe.
you cant deny that.
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Only in hollywood-reality. These days tighter money laundring restrictions and regulations have shifted a large chunk of that business abroads. Today, there's much larger financial bases for illegal activities all over the world.

holy king said:
it's called bankgeheimnis. the eu is pressuring switzerland into giving it up anyway.
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I know, and I resent that. Financial privacy, like other kinds of privacy is something to be valued (but yeah, unless you hide something you got nothing to fear, eh?). And to be precice the EU wants to attack the Bankgeheimnis not because of illegal operations but for tax reasons and solutions are being worked out as we type. Contrary to what many people believe the Bankgeheimnis doesn't protect money acquired through illegal operations.
 
KaeptnOvi said:
Only in hollywood-reality. These days tighter money laundring restrictions and regulations have shifted a large chunk of that business abroads. Today, there's much larger financial bases for illegal activities all over the world.
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no reason to flock to the standard for being singled out. ;)
 
holy king said:
no reason to flock to the standard for being singled out. ;)
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it's in the genes, can't resist it, especially when the thrust comes from Austria ;)
 
I don't know. The whole financial sector is so complicated with all these little offshore islands in the banking business. In Switzerland, the normal 'citizen' doesn't proft at all or knows what's going on. So I don't really care... ;-)
 
REDY said:
Finally someone had balls to attack that rogue state. I fully agree with split, all bankers should be executed and surrounding countries should annex cantons with same languages.
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I wonder who would get the Rumantsch area... :mischief:
 
America got replaced by Switzerland?! :eek: Man, we've lost our edge!

Are we gonna have to throw a few bombs around there again? Take out a hospital to secure ourselves for the next 10-20 years. :mad:
 
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