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Swiss press weigh up bin Laden legacy

This content was published on May 3, 2011 “Prince of terror”, “icon”, “monster”, “martyr” – editorialists across the country had no problem describing the leader of Islamist terror network Al-Qaeda, killed by United States special forces on Sunday. They were less sure what his death would mean for global geopolitics. “For the United States it’s finally September 12,” declared Le Temps in Geneva.…

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Time needed before Ben-Ali assets returned

This content was published on May 2, 2011 Calmy-Rey was speaking on Monday at a news conference on the sidelines of a meeting in Tunis of Swiss ambassadors in the region. “How long will it take before the money of the Ben Ali clan is given back to the Tunisian state?” a local journalist asked Calmy-Rey, who replied that it would depend on…

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Switzerland receives French nuclear assurances

This content was published on May 2, 2011 Following a meeting with her French counterpart, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, in Paris on Monday, Leuthard said a joint Swiss-French team of experts would evaluate the report. “This procedure appears to be a completely acceptable and transparent,” Leuthard said. “Until we have the opinion of independent experts, there is no point in demanding the closure of this…

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Swiss security weakened by global shifts

This content was published on May 2, 2011 The Federal Intelligence Service outlined the major issues of 2010 at a briefing on Monday. Terrorism wasn’t among the concerns, but the Service’s freshly printed report on recent activities was nevertheless overtaken by events. The killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by United States forces on Sunday has forced a rethink on future terrorist…

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Osama bin Laden

This content was published on May 2, 2011 A timeline of some of the major attacks carried out or inspired by al-Qaeda and its associates.

US warned to expect al-Qaeda revenge attacks

This content was published on May 2, 2011 Albert Stahel, a professor of strategic studies at Zurich University’s Institute for Political Science, added that a secret deal was probably reached with Pakistan over bin Laden’s capture linked to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Bin Laden, the elusive mastermind behind the devastating September 11, 2001 terror attacks, was killed in his hideout in Pakistan…

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Move started to return Duvalier funds to Haiti

This content was published on May 2, 2011 If the move is successful, Switzerland will return the forfeited assets amounting to more than SFr5.8 million ($6.7 million) to one of the world’s poorest states, the finance ministry said in a statement on Monday. The Swiss government instructed the ministry to start the legal process in the Federal Administrative Court in February after a…

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Islamic attacks “remain a possibility”

This content was published on May 2, 2011 Presenting his unit’s annual report, Markus Seiler said it was impossible to predict how the security situation would develop in the short term. Monday’s presentation coincides with news that the elusive head of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, had been killed in a raid by a United States commando unit in Pakistan on Sunday. Seiler said…

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Al-Qaeda leader killed in Pakistan

This content was published on May 2, 2011 Bin Laden’s reported death at a compound in Pakistan ended the world’s most widely-watched manhunt, and jubilant crowds gathered outside the White House and at Ground Zero in New York as word spread late at night. “Justice has been done,” President Barack Obama said on Sunday. A small team of Americans killed bin Laden earlier…

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Calmy-Rey heckled by anarchists

This content was published on May 1, 2011 The incident occurred shortly after the president began to address the 10,000 people who had turned out for the traditional May 1 demonstrations for workers rights. Calmy-Rey was forced to leave the speaker’s podium while organisers confiscated the protesters’ megaphone. Resuming her speech, the president said Swiss energy politics had been changed by recent events…

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