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...most recent edition of the State Department's annual "Global Patterns of Terrorism" report, which notes that "Iran provided Lebanese Hizballah and Palestinian rejectionist groups - notably HAMAS, the Palestine Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine?General Command - with funding, safehaven, training, and weapons" and adds "The Syrian Government in 2003 continued to provide political and material support to Palestinian rejectionist groups [operating] from Syria, although they have lowered their public profiles since May, when Damascus announced that the groups had voluntarily closed their offices...
...Compared to DeWolfe, Quincy is like a safehaven," Lau Jokes...
Your report raised disturbing questions: Why were the Project Safehaven documents ever classified by the U.S. government? Why did they remain classified? Who in the U.S. knew how much money was really involved? Who made money besides the "gnomes of Zurich"? ARTHUR S. TISCHLER Newton, Massachusetts
Israel Singer packed his briefcase with Safehaven documents when he and Bronfman flew to Bern in September 1995. One by one, he laid them on the table before officials of the Swiss Bankers Association, charting a trail of the banks' complicity. Singer and Bronfman insisted the bankers come clean about their role, restoring Jewish funds to Holocaust survivors. But, recalls Singer, "they stonewalled us," offering merely the $32 million found in 774 dormant accounts...
...bank issue, Clinton looked pensive. Then he said, "Edgar, if it is necessary, I will work with Senator D'Amato on legislation on this matter." Moving fast, the President ordered Secretary Eizenstat to investigate the U.S. archives. With the ammunition Singer and D'Amato had dug out of the Safehaven trove, emotional Senate hearings in April and again last October matched testimony from Holocaust survivors with hard evidence of Swiss service to the Reich...