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...Qaeda and Taliban bases along the border [in Pakistan]." But Amjad Islam was not killed in some frontier village abutting Afghanistan; his body hung 80 miles (129 km) from Pakistan's capital in the Swat Valley, which until 2007 had been a popular tourist destination dubbed the "Switzerland of Asia." Today about 75% of the valley is under the control of a particularly virulent branch of the Pakistani Taliban, which has destroyed schools and terrorized the population. If the authorities in Pakistan have been unable to tackle a homegrown insurgency just hours from its seat of power, prospects for their...
...Even if many Iraqis support his act, he is at the mercy of all kinds of extremists.' MAURO POGGIA, lawyer for Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President Bush, on why al-Zaidi is seeking asylum in Switzerland...
...modern way of burying a treasure chest of cash, banking experts say, is to have your own bank that is funded by nameless wire transfers to Switzerland, the Caymans, Liechtenstein. It's still unclear as to whether Madoff had his own bank, but there is always the ever popular method of hidden safes and multiple, anonymously managed safety-deposit boxes loaded with cash, or even better, "bearer bonds," an old-fashioned but effective tool that is as good as cash and can be presented to banks by anyone bearing them - no questions asked. Today they are used frequently in Central...
...Switzerland is waging—and winning—a real war on drugs, instead of losing a war on drug users. The United States ought to step back and examine the Swiss program as a solution to its own narcotics problems. At the very least, it could refrain from criticizing the Swiss...
...semester each. “I really wanted to build my study abroad experience around traveling,” she says. To achieve her goal, Campbell visited 12 countries on three continents over the course of the year. Between her side trip to Morocco and her adventure skydiving in Switzerland, however, Campbell was getting credit towards her sociology concentration and for electives. “On the academic front, that stuff is all stuff you can work out,” she says. Like Peisker, Campbell received credit for one core requirement per semester abroad. Campbell spent her first semester...