Storm Track Infiltration: It’s Switzerland’s Turn

Cuckoo clocks may not be the only things being exported form Switzerland. Once a place for a safe haven for monies held by both sides of a conflict, Switzerland has become a safe haven for terrorists.

In an intelligence report completed in May, the Swiss Federal Police reversed previous assessments that the domestic risk of terrorism was nearly nonexistent. The report concluded that Switzerland had become "a jihadi field of operation" and predicted that terrorist attacks were "an increasing possibility."

"We might be facing a new era in homegrown terrorism," said Pitteloud, now the director of the Center for International Security Policy, an arm of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. "We don't feel like we are a primary target, but in the end, Switzerland is a symbol of quite a lot of things that radical Islam hates." Officials worry about attacks on foreign embassies and institutions.

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Most terrorism suspects arrested or questioned after Sept. 11 were foreigners just passing through. That has changed recently, he said. Most of the suspects in the Israeli airliner case, for example, are immigrants who were granted Swiss residency.

It seems the Swiss haven’t learned the lessons of France, Denmark, Holland and Sweden. They’re opening their doors to potentially dangerous Muslim immigrants.