From: "George Sherwood" 

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:26:52 +0100, Adam wrote:

>> Another concrete example is shown in the LA Times article on the SWIFT
>> information (story broken by NY Times)
>>
>
> Staggeringly bad news for SWIFT.
>
> Already the Arabs & Europeans are  pig sick of the US throwing it's
> weight around wrt financial firms etc. (e.g. determining who can send
> money to who on the basis of domestic US law & the threat of sanctions
> against those financial firms which don't kowtow.)
>
> e.g the EU wants to start re-providing aid to the Palestinians & the US
> made it clear that they'd sanction any financial comp which took part.
> The EU is now on the verge of making clear to global financial houses
> that they'll have a choice of operating in the Eu or in the US if a
> similar thing ever happens again.

The Arabs might be sick, but I haven't seen it out of the EU yet.  Remind
me when this actually happens and not you just throwing things out.
 If it is all like you and Phil say, why don't they just blow the US off
 now?

George

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