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### Viewing cable 06BERN141, SWISS COUNTERTERRORISM OVERVIEW - SCENESETTER FOR \

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06BERN141 | 2006-01-20 16:53 | 2011-01-11 18:00 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Bern

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    DE RUEHSW #0141/01 0201653
    ZNY CCCCC ZZH
    P 201653Z JAN 06
    FM AMEMBASSY BERN
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1431
    INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
    RUCNFB/FBI WASHDC PRIORITY
    RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC PRIORITY
    RUEKJCS/JOINT STAFF WASHDC PRIORITY
    RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 2436
    RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC PRIORITY

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    50264	2006-01-20 16:53:00	06BERN141	Embassy Bern	CONFIDENTIAL	05BERN1865|06BERN10|06BERN100	VZCZCXRO7442\
    PP RUEHFL RUEHKW RUEHLA RUEHROV RUEHSR\
    DE RUEHSW #0141/01 0201653\
    ZNY CCCCC ZZH\
    P 201653Z JAN 06\
    FM AMEMBASSY BERN\
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1431\
    INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE PRIORITY\
    RUCNFB/FBI WASHDC PRIORITY\
    RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC PRIORITY\
    RUEKJCS/JOINT STAFF WASHDC PRIORITY\
    RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 2436\
    RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC PRIORITY	C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 04 BERN 000141 \
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    SIPDIS \
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    SIPDIS \
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    STATE FOR S/CT, EB, EUR/AGS \
    FBI FOR OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS \
    TREASURY FOR OFAC \
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    E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/20/2016 \
    TAGS: PTER PARM ETTC SZ
    SUBJECT: SWISS COUNTERTERRORISM OVERVIEW - SCENESETTER FOR \
    FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER \
     \
    REF: A. BERN 100 \
         ¶B. BERN 10 \
         ¶C. 2005 BERN 1865 \
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    Classified By: Pol/Econ Counselor Eric Sandberg, Reasons 1.4 b/d \
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    1.(C) Summary:  Switzerland and Liechtenstein are considered \
    low-threat target for terrorist attacks, but Bern \
    acknowledges that Islamist groups could use the country as a \
    transit point, logistics center, or haven for terrorist \
    finances.  While violent crime in both countries is \
    relatively low, officials remain concerned about \
    international organized criminal groups and extreme \
    right-wing and left-wing political elements who occasionally \
    mobilize for demonstrations surrounding major events, such as \
    the annual World Economic Forum in Davos.  Swiss officials \
    maintain that there are few Islamic extremists in the \
    country, but a small number of arrests in the past two years \
    suggests there may be more under the surface.  Bilateral law \
    enforcement and intelligence cooperation is improving, but at \
    a gradual pace; Swiss leaders insist that they can address \
    the threat with little outside assistance.  The Swiss media \
    and individual members of Parliament have placed a greater \
    focus on alleged USG wrongdoings in the War on Terror than on \
    the terrorist threat itself.  As for Liechtenstein, officials \
    work very cooperatively with USG counterparts, as they seek \
    to ameliorate their reputation as a money-laundering center. \
    End Summary. \
     \
    Anti-Terror Measures \
    -------------------- \
     \
    2.(U) Switzerland implemented UN sanctions even prior to \
    becoming a full member in 2002.  Along with UN lists, the \
    Swiss Economic and Finance ministries have drawn up their own \
    list of around 44 individuals and entities connected with \
    international terrorism (Al-Qaeda) or its financing.  Swiss \
    authorities have thus far blocked about 82 accounts totaling \
    $28 million (SFr 34 million) from individuals or companies \
    linked to Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda under UN resolutions. \
    The Swiss Federal Prosecutor also froze separately 41 \
    accounts representing about $28 million (SFr 34 millions) on \
    the ground they were related to terrorist financing.  Swiss \
    officials estimate significant overlap between the US and UN \
    lists.  Switzerland signed and ratified all of the 12 UN \
    anti-terrorism conventions as of September 2003. \
     \
    3.(U) For its part, Liechtenstein has frozen about $145 \
    thousand in Taliban/Al-Qaeda assets under UNSC Resolution \
    ¶1267.  The principality has taken notable strides to combat \
    money laundering and other illegal activity since 1999; it \
    joined the Egmont Group in 2001, signed a mutual legal \
    assistance treaty with the United States in 2003, and was \
    FATF certified that same year.  Liechtenstein has also \
    ratified all of the relevant UN conventions. \
     \
    Bilateral Cooperation \
    --------------------- \
     \
    4.(C) Following 9/11, the Swiss agreed to sign an operative \
    working agreement (OWA) with the USG permitting intensified \
    information sharing on Al-Qaeda and allowing an FBI agent to \
    sit in the Federal Criminal Police Counterterrorism Unit.  We \
    are in the final stages of negotiating a broadened OWA to \
    allow joint investigations on counterterrorism matters.  As \
    forthcoming as some contacts are, the Swiss law enforcement \
    community in general remain reluctant to open up to the \
    United States.  The sentiment was expressed best by Justice \
    Minister Blocher to the Ambassador.  Blocher said that \
    Switzerland shared America's counterterrorism goals; \
    Switzerland will worry about Switzerland, and the U.S. can \
    worry about the rest of the world.  The least cooperative \
    Swiss agency (with us and with other Swiss agencies) is the \
    Federal Service for Analysis and Prevention (DAP) -- the \
    internal intelligence service.  The external service, under \
    the Swiss Department of Defense, is more cooperative. \
     \
    5.(C) In many ways, Liechtenstein officials are a model of \
    what we wish the Swiss would become.  Shocked by the \
    international notoriety it earned in the 1990s, officials in \
    the tiny principality decided to join FATF and cooperate with \
    partners.  The MLAT it signed with the United States in 2003 \
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    BERN 00000141  002 OF 004 \
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    was the first of its kind for Liechtenstein.  They make as \
    much use of it as do our law enforcement agencies. \
     \
    Significant counterterrorism investigations \
    ------------------------------------------- \
     \
    6.(C) Swiss prosecutors have launched several investigations \
    of suspected Al-Qaeda operatives in Switzerland.  As yet, \
    prosecutors have had unimpressive results. \
     \
    -- September 11: The 9/11 attacks resulted in greater \
    external intelligence and police cooperation between the \
    United States and Switzerland, as well as with Liechtenstein. \
     After a significant delay, the Swiss agreed to share phone \
    records from Al-Qaeda operatives using anonymous Swisscom \
    phones.  The use of these phones by terrorists prompted the \
    Parliament two years later to require identification \
    documents for Swisscom subscribers. \
     \
    -- Al-Taqwa: In December 2001, Switzerland froze the assets \
    of Al-Taqwa Management, a financial services firm accused by \
    the United States of helping to fund Al-Qaeda.  Swiss police \
    raided Al-Taqwa's offices and froze the assets of its board \
    members.  In March 2005, managing director Youssef Nada \
    lodged an appeal with the Federal Criminal Court to have \
    charges dropped for lack of evidence of criminal wrongdoing. \
    Nada acknowledged that he was an Islamic activist and member \
    of the Muslim Brotherhood, but denied he was connected to \
    terrorist financing.  The Swiss Federal Prosecutor, \
    frustrated by the lack of cooperation from Bahamian \
    authorities regarding aspects of Al-Taqwa's activities there \
    and otherwise pessimistic about attaining sufficient evidence \
    to convict, dropped the case in June 2005.  The Swiss \
    government was required to pay legal compensation to Nada. \
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    -- Yassin Qadi: After the United States named Saudi Arabian \
    businessman Yassin Qadi a global terrorist and the UN placed \
    him under sanctions, Switzerland froze $21 million in Qadi's \
    assets held in a Geneva bank. \
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    -- Jerba Bombing: Since the Jerba Bombings in April 2002, \
    Swiss officials have been investigating the whereabouts of a \
    Swiss citizen, Mohamed Ben Hedi, who had been secretary of \
    the Salah Islamic Center in Biel. \
     \
    -- Riyadh Bombings: As a result of investigations following \
    the May 2003 bombings in Riyadh, Swiss police in January 2004 \
    arrested ten Muslims who were suspected of providing \
    logistical support for the attacks.  The remaining three \
    suspects were released on their own recognizance in late 2005. \
     \
    -- Madrid Bombings: In the fall of 2004, Spanish police \
    identified Mohamed Achraf -- a rejected asylum seeker in \
    Switzerland awaiting deportation -- as the suspected \
    ringleader of a Salafist group "Martyrs of Morocco" that was \
    plotting to bomb the Spanish High Court.  News of the Spanish \
    investigation surprised Zurich cantonal police, who had not \
    been informed by the Swiss internal service, DAP.  Achraf was \
    deported to Spain in January 2005. \
     \
    -- Internet Incitement: In March, 2005, Swiss authorities \
    arrested Malika Al-Aroed, charging her and her husband, Moez \
    Garsallaoui, a "Tunisian fundamentalist," with "posting \
    manuals for the manufacture of bombs," as well as "images of \
    murder" on the website www.islamic-minibar.com.  According to \
    press reports, Al-Aroed had been acquitted in Brussels in \
    2003 of charges that she was involved in the attack on Afghan \
    opposition leader Ahmad Shah Mas'ud.  The presiding judge \
    there had called her a "dangerous extremist."  Another \
    Islamist of Egyptian origin, Muhammed Al-Ghanam, was \
    apprehended using the Geneva University server to spread \
    extremist messages, but was not arrested. \
     \
    -- Yeslam Bin Ladin:  In August 2005, the Swiss Federal Court \
    halted Swiss legal assistance to a French investigation of \
    two companies owned by Yeslam Bin Ladin (Osama's half \
    brother) after an appeal by the companies. \
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    7.(U) The Muslim population in Switzerland has grown rapidly \
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    in the last two decades, now reaching around 310,000, or 4.3 \
    percenQ the Swiss population.  The majority of these, \
    roughly 200,000, come from former Yugoslavia and tend to be \
    moderate or secular in their views.  Another 70,000 are of \
    Turkish background, have long been in Switzerland, and are \
    also moderate.  Only the North African population, largely \
    from Morocco, are seen as a possible source of Islamic \
    extremism.  There are no Islamic political parties in \
    Switzerland; the Muslim population is divided along ethnic \
    lines. There are only two mosque buildings in SwitzerlandQn \
    Zurich aQeneva), but over a hundred makeshift Islamic \
    centers operate. \
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    8.(SBU) While Swiss authorities recognize that the Muslim \
    population could contain extremists, they rate the threat \
    from right-wing Neo-nazis and left-wing Swiss political \
    extremists as being much higher.  Swiss authorities believe \
    that those Islamists present consider the country a "refuge" \
    rather than a "place to carry out operations."  A Special \
    Report on Extremism issued late last year maintains that \
    almost all radical groups represented in Switzerland are \
    Sunni organizations whose primary goals are the establishment \
    of Islamic governments in their homelands. \
    The principal groups in this category are En Nahdha, the \
    Tunisian Islamic Front, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic \
    Salvation Front (FIS), the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), the \
    Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), Hamas, \
    Hizbollah and Al-Takfir wal-Hijra. \
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    9.(C) The best known Islamists in Switzerland are the \
    Ramadans, Tariq and Hani, of the Islamic Center in Geneva. \
    Tariq Ramadan, formerly a professor of philosophy and \
    grandson of Muslim Brotherhood found Hassan al-Bana, is \
    well-known throughout Europe.  He is sometimes hailed as a \
    moderate, at other times attacked as a wolf in sheep's \
    clothing, putting a palatable front to fundamentalist \
    activities.  Offered a teaching position at Notre Dame \
    University in 2004, his visa was revoked by DHS, and he \
    withdrew a subsequent application.  The UK Government has \
    included Ramadan in an advisory body to assist in their \
    outreach efforts with its Muslim minority. \
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    10.(U) Hani Ramadan was suspended from his duties as a public \
    school teacher in the fall of 2002, following the publication \
    of an article in the French newspaper "Le Monde," in which he \
    spoke out in favor of the stoning of adulterers.  He was \
    dismissed in 2003, following an administrative investigation, \
    but he successfully appealed the decision.  However, \
    following a second investigation, the Geneva Cantonal \
    Government confirmed Ramadan's dismissal and removed him from \
    the cantonal payroll in December 2004.  In October 2005, the \
    Swiss Justice Ministry denied a work permit to a Turkish Imam \
    invited to work at the Islamic Center in Geneva, due to the \
    Imam's extremist views. \
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    11.(C) Since the Washington Post claimed in early November \
    2005 that the United States was operating hidden prisons in \
    Europe, the Swiss media has gone full bore in identifying USG \
    sins, real and imagined.  Any news on Guantanamo or Abu \
    Ghraib is guaranteed front-page treatment, whereas Al-Qaeda \
    attacks are relegated to the back pages.  Of particular \
    concern is the issue of overflights by alleged CIA charter \
    planes.  Italian prosecutors allege that a U.S. military jet \
    traversed Swiss airspace on the day Milan cleric Abu Omar was \
    kidnapped.  The Swiss government has repeatedly asked the USG \
    to explain the flight and four charter plane landings at \
    Geneva Airport.  Washington has yet to respond. \
     \
    12.(C) Recently, a Swiss tabloid published a leaked Swiss \
    intelligence report of an intercept of an Egyptian government \
    fax.  The Swiss Federal Council has condemned the leak and \
    its subsequent publication, and the government has launched \
    administrative and criminal investigations into the matter. \
    The intercepted Egyptian fax claimed that the Egyptian \
    government knew of 23 Iraqi and Afghani prisoners transferred \
    by the USG to prisons in Romania and other Eastern European \
    countries.  Swiss officials apologized to Ambassador \
    Willeford for the leak and for the press's overreaction to \
    it. The Ambassador cautioned officials that Switzerland's \
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    obsession with the prisons/overflight matter -- driven in \
    significant measure by Swiss Senator Dick Marty -- risked \
    overwhelming Washington's perceptions of Switzerland.  Marty, \
    acting in his capacity as head of the Council of Europe \
    Parliamentary Assembly's Justice Commission and not in any \
    official Swiss government capacity, greeted the information \
    cautiously, but criticized the Swiss and other European \
    governments for not disclosing information on the prisoner \
    issue. \
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    13.(C) Comment: Despite being somewhat shaken by attacks in \
    London and Madrid, the Swiss internal security service \
    continues to assess that Switzerland is relatively safe and \
    that there is no evidence yet of any activity beyond \
    logistical support for Islamic extremists.  Swiss opinion \
    leaders among the Parliament and media exhibit little evident \
    concern about the terrorist threat to Switzerland, perhaps \
    contributing to their tendency to focus their criticism on \
    the USG reaction, rather than the initial threat itself. \
    Embassy engagement with Swiss counterparts, reinforced by \
    senior-level visits by USG officials, are helping to move the \
    Swiss to be more forthcoming on information sharing and joint \
    investigations.  Absent a direct attack on Swiss interests, \
    however, the process is liable to move very gradually.  End \
    comment. \
    Willeford \

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