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ASSUME for a moment that, instead of Kuwait, Switzerland was invaded. What if a million-strong, battle-hardened army swarmed accross its borders? Pretend that Swiss, rather than Kuwaiti, women are being raped in the streets of Geneva rather than Kuwait City...
...Zurich's banks are being looted, and millions and millions of dollars of Swiss money are being carted off. The brave Swiss, although threatened with execution for protecting U.S. citizens, are hiding Americans in their homes. Even many of the wealthy residents who could leave are staying in Switzerland to fight for their country's freedom...
...United States would fight to liberate Switzerland immediately. No question about it. No Security Council resolution, no arguments by Congressional leaders, no anti-war protesters in Harvard Yard...
Liberating Switzerland would be as American as mom's apple...
Much of the electronic money zips into a secret banking industry that got its start in Switzerland in the 1930s as worried Europeans began shifting their savings beyond the reach of Hitler's Third Reich. Later the country's infamous numbered accounts became a hugely profitable business. Chiasso, a quaint Swiss town of 8,700 inhabitants on the Italian border, has 18 banking offices. But during the past few years, Swiss secrecy has been weakened by a series of cases involving money laundering. Switzerland is now preparing a new law that will make money laundering a crime punishable by prison...