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...world's largest financial institutions?among them HSBC, UBS and Citigroup?are expanding their Singapore presence. Credit Suisse, for example, currently employs roughly 500 private bankers in Singapore, more than any place outside Switzerland?and the bank has plans to hire 100 more this year. Bank Julius Baer, the venerable Swiss private bank, has similarly high expectations. "We're trying to position Singapore as a second leg [after Zurich] to our operation," says Thomas Meier, head of the company's private-banking arm in Asia. Says Didier von Daeniken, head of private banking for Credit Suisse in Southeast Asia...
While it can be emotionally satisfying to see Nasrallah and his ilk set back, that doesn't qualify Hizballah as an appropriate target for U.S. efforts against terrorism. Robert Baer, a former CIA covert officer who tracked Hizballah, says that by the late 1990s, the CIA was watching the group to see if it might resume violence against the U.S., but it never did. Eventually, within the agency, he says, "they just weren't important." That U.S. authorities in 2002 convicted a ring in North Carolina for raising money for Hizballah by smuggling cigarettes doesn't mean the group...
...ROBERT BAER...
...ROBERT BAER...
...CANNOT HAVE CIA employees deciding what should be classified and what shouldn't. That's the beginning of the end. Bob Baer can't be at the CIA and decide that the Clinton Administration is screwing up on whatever and then go to the press. He can go to the inspector general or to Congress...