Friday, January 29, 2010

Grammy winner Beyonce outrages United States Citizens over her performance for Libyan Leaders family.


Is this the way a muslim man from Libya acts in public? Did he break his wife's nose?
Is that Aline Skaf sitting on Hannibal?

Bad Press (Damage Control) killed this Beyonce story quickly, but not quick enough to infuriate NY families and people old enough to remember the lockerbie terrorist bombing of an airplane filled with Americans. New Yorkers will not forgive Beyonce for her insensitivity. 10021 NY socialites blog will also not forgive beyonce for this.

What did Beyonce do that was so evil?

Beyoncé Knowles was paid $2 million dollars for performing at a private party for Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi's son Mutasim-Billah (Hannibal the wife beater) on New Year's Eve. Beyonce needs to return the money to the people of Libya, to atone for her stupid mistakes.

In 2003, Gaddafi finally admitted Libya was responsible for a terrorist bombing on board a Pan Am Flight 103 en route to New York John F. Kennedy in 1988, killing 270. (Many of whom were New Yorkers)

Didn't beyonce think New Yorkers would be upset. We all thought Beyonce's husband Jay-Z had an empire state of mind?

Mutasim-Billah - a national security adviser for Libya - smoked cigarettes, drank and laughed with his guests during the beyonce concert. Mutasim-Billah, Gaddafi's fourth son, Moatessem-Billah Gaddafi, was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Libyan army. He fled to Egypt after allegedly masterminding an Egyptian backed coup attempt against his father. Gaddafi forgave Moatessem and he returned to Libya where he now holds the post of national security adviser and heads his own unit within the army. Saif Al Islam and Moatessem-Billah are both seen as possible successors to their father.

Why are there differing reports of which son it was?

First off, there is 37 different spellings just for the last name gaddafi, so we begin to see the confusion of a few sons with similar first and middle names. The problem with naming which son this really is, is that The arab name of the fifth son Motassim Bilal (Hannibal) Gaddafi, is very close to the forth son Moatessem-Billah Gaddafi, However the caucasian wife sitting on his lap resembles hannibal's wife Aline Skaf, that he repeatedly beats up.

(I am going to say it is Hannibal for the Gaddafi responsible for throwing this party)

The fifth eldest, Motassim Bilal (Hannibal) Gaddafi, once worked for General National Maritime Transport Company, a company that specializes in Libyan oil exports. He is most notable for being involved in a series of violent incidents throughout Europe. In 2001, Hannibal attacked three Italian policemen with a fire extinguisher; in September 2004, he was briefly detained in Paris after driving a Porsche at 90 mph in the wrong direction and through red lights down the Champs-Élysées while intoxicated; and in 2005, Hannibal in Paris allegedly beat model and then girlfriend Alin Skaf, who later filed an assault suit against him. He was fined and given a four month suspended prison sentence after this incident. In December 2009 police were called to Claridges Hotel in London after staff heard a scream from Hannibal's room. Aline Skaf, now his wife, was found to have suffered facial injuries including a broken nose, but charges were not pressed after she maintained she had sustained the injuries in a fall.
On 15 July 2008, Hannibal and his wife were held for two days and charged with assaulting two of their staff in Geneva, Switzerland and then released on bail on 17 July.


Beyonce got paid $2 million dollars




Bad Press Damage Control killed this Beyonce story quickly
But we brought it back just before the grammies honor beyonce

The small audience included her husband Jay-Z, rock star Jon Bon Jovi, hip-hop singer Usher, actress Lindsay Lohan and a smattering of young female partygoers.


Beyonce and Jay-Z

London, Jan 13 : Singing couple Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z have topped the list of Hollywood's highest-earning couples by pulling a combined $122 million.

Bad Press Damage Control killed this Beyonce story quickly, but not quick enough to infuriate NY families and people old enough to remember the lockerbie terrorist bombing of an airplane filled with Americans. New Yorkers will not forgive Beyonce for her insensitivity. 10021 NY socialites blog will also not forgive beyonce for this.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Seif al-Islam (R) holds hands with freed Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al Megrahi, who claimed the celebration could have been much bigger.
(Gaddafi's son also defended the hero's welcome given to Megrahi on his return to Libya -- which triggered fury in Washington, London and Edinburgh -- saying Tripoli could have organized something much more high profile."There was no official celebration, no guards of honor, no fireworks and no parade. We could have arranged a much better reception," he said..

The original goal of this post, was for beyonce to give the money earned for her private performance for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Seif al-Islam, to the victims families of the lockerbie terrorist bombing.

However, after learning of their already received compensation by Libya, to the tune of $10 million dollars for each victim, I had to rethink things. Lets compromise and say beyonce should apologize to the people of the USA and UK, and fire the person who made the private concert arrangements. Beyonce needs to return the money to the people of Libya

While we are talking about shaming the United States, Libya also has a CURRENT stake in the italian car manufacturer Fiat, whom Barack Obama made a part of Chrysler American Car company. (In January 2002, Gaddafi purchased a 7.5% share of Italian football club Juventus for USD 21 million, through Lafico ("Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company"). This followed a long-standing association with the Italian industrialist Gianni Agnelli and car manufacturer Fiat.)

Beyonce must be held accountable for shaming the United States, by blatantly performing for a countries next leader who's family was known to have promoted terror against the USA and all western countries.

Libya never confessed to its part in the the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 to New York, John F Kennedy Airport, but was forced to pay the passengers families, to resume relations with the USA.

The following is details of Libya's involvement with terrorism, victims names of the terrorist attack, and court documents from a terrorist convicted.

Libya must first accept its responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing, and pay compensation to the victims' families - two of the conditions for lifting the UN sanctions. Libyan assets have been frozen since January 1986, after the US was convinced that Libya was sponsoring international terrorism.

Beyonce performed for an hour on New Year's Eve at a party thrown by terror-backing Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy's son, Hannibal, who has a long record of violence against women.
Beyoncé performed five songs in a sexy black leotard at the Nikki Beach club on St. Barts in front of a crowd that included her husband Jay-Z, Usher and Lindsay Lohan.
We couldn't confirm how much Beyoncé was paid for the gig, but last year, Mariah Carey reportedly pocketed $1 million for performing at Nikki Beach.
Some vacationers on the island were aghast. DJ Sam Young tweeted: "Jigga [Jay-Z], Beyonce & Usher were @ Nikki Beach performing for Khadafy family, WTF?")

Just a week earlier, on Christmas Day, Hannibal, 33 -- also known as Moutassim -- allegedly attacked his wife, Aline Skaf, in his suite at Claridge's in London. Three of his security staff were arrested for obstructing police. Skaf was reportedly hospitalized with a broken nose while Hannibal was whisked away in a diplomatic car.
In July 2008, he and his then-pregnant wife were arrested on charges of beating their servants in a Geneva hotel. They denied the charges, which were dropped after the servants received compensation.
Hannibal was also arrested in 2005 in a Paris hotel for allegedly punching Skaf. He then allegedly brandished a 9mm handgun and went on a furniture-smashing rampage in his hotel suite. No charges were brought.
A year earlier, he led a police chase on the Champs Elysees, reaching speeds of 90 mph in his Porsche. No charges were brought after Libyan diplomats apologized. And in 2001, he allegedly attacked three Italian policemen with a fire extinguisher, but demanded diplomatic immunity.
Reps for Beyoncé and Nikki Beach did not return calls and e-mails.


NY Post and many other sources have the wrong brother. A statement was released later by Beyonce's camp, and it was for Muatsim Khadafy. I want to add that all the brothers were young when their father was associated with terrorism.
The brothers were never accused of any terrorism. When Muatsim got older he even tried to overthrow his father's goverment with the help of a US ally Egypt. Muatsim went back and started to change things internally to help the US and Libya restore normal diplomatic ties. Libya is now considered an ally, is helping the US fight terrorism, and many American and European corporations are doing business with Libya. Once the older Khadafy steps down, the US and Europe supports Muatsim taking over the Libyan government.

What kind of people are the Gaddafi family?
Gaddafi turned Libya into a haven for anti-Western radicals, where any group, supposedly, could receive weapons and financial assistance, provided they claimed to be fighting imperialism.
Gaddafi also became a strong supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which support ultimately harmed Libya's relations with Egypt, when in 1979 Egypt pursued a peace agreement with Israel. As Libya's relations with Egypt worsened, Gaddafi sought closer relations with the Soviet Union. Libya became the first country outside the Soviet bloc to receive the supersonic MiG-25 combat fighters, but Soviet-Libyan relations remained relatively distant. Gaddafi also sought to increase Libyan influence, especially in states with an Islamic population, by calling for the creation of a Saharan Islamic state and supporting anti-government forces in sub-Saharan Africa.
Throughout the 1970s, his regime was implicated in subversion and terrorist activities in both Arab and non-Arab countries. By the mid-1980s, he was widely regarded in the West as the principal financier of international terrorism. Reportedly, Gaddafi was a major financier of the "Black September Movement" which perpetrated the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics, and was accused by the United States of being responsible for direct control of the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 200, of whom a substantial number were U.S. servicemen. He is also said to have paid "Carlos the Jackal" to kidnap and then release a number of Saudi Arabian and Iranian oil ministers.[citation needed]
Tensions between Libya and the West reached a peak during the Ronald Reagan administration, which tried to overthrow Gaddafi. The Reagan administration viewed Libya as a belligerent rogue state because of its uncompromising stance on Palestinian independence, its support for revolutionary Iran in the 1980–1988 war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq (see Iran–Iraq War), and its backing of "liberation movements" in the developing world. Reagan himself dubbed Gaddafi the "mad dog of the Middle East". In December 1981, the US State Department invalidated US passports for travel to Libya, and in March 1982, the U.S. declared a ban on the import of Libyan oil[9] and the export to Libya of U.S. oil industry technology; European nations did not follow suit. Libya has also been a supporter of the Polisario Front in their fight against Spanish colonialism and Moroccan military occupation.
In 1984, British police constable Yvonne Fletcher was shot outside the Libyan Embassy in London while policing an anti-Gaddafi demonstration. A burst of machine-gun fire from within the building was suspected of killing her, but Libyan diplomats asserted their diplomatic immunity and were repatriated. The incident led to the breaking off of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Libya for over a decade.[citation needed]
The U.S. attacked Libyan patrol boats from January to March 1986 during clashes over access to the Gulf of Sidra, which Libya claimed as territorial waters. On 15 April 1986, Ronald Reagan ordered major bombing raids, dubbed Operation El Dorado Canyon, against Tripoli and Benghazi killing 45 Libyan military and government personnel as well as 15 civilians.[1] This strike followed U.S. interception of telex messages from Libya's East Berlin embassy suggesting Libyan government involvement in a bomb explosion on 5 April in West Berlin's La Belle discothèque, a nightclub frequented by U.S. servicemen. Among the alleged fatalities of the 15 April retaliatory attack by the U.S. was Gaddafi's adopted daughter, Hannah. Libya responded by firing two Scud missiles at the U.S. Coast Guard navigation station on the Italian island of Lampedusa, in retaliation for the bombing. The missiles landed in the sea, and caused no damage.[citation needed]
In late 1987, a merchant vessel, the MV Eksund, was intercepted. Destined for the IRA, a large consignment of arms and explosives supplied by Libya was recovered from the Eksund. British intelligence believed this was not the first and that Libyan arms shipments had previously reached the IRA. (See Provisional IRA arms importation.)
For most of the 1990s, Libya endured economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation as a result of Gaddafi's refusal to allow the extradition to the United States or Britain of two Libyans accused of planting a bomb on Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. Through the intercession of South African President Nelson Mandela – who made a high-profile visit to Gaddafi in 1997 – and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Gaddafi agreed in 1999 to a compromise that involved handing over the defendants to the Netherlands for trial under Scottish law.:[10] U.N. sanctions were thereupon suspended, but U.S. sanctions against Libya remained in force.
An alleged plot by Britain's secret intelligence service to assassinate Colonel Gaddafi, when rebels attacked Gaddafi's motorcade near the city of Sirte in February 1996, was described as "pure fantasy" by former foreign secretary Robin Cook, although the FCO later admitted: "We have never denied that we knew of plots against Gaddafi."[11]
In August 2003, two years after Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi's conviction, Libya wrote to the United Nations formally accepting 'responsibility for the actions of its officials' in respect of the Lockerbie bombing and agreed to pay compensation of up to US$2.7 billion – or up to US$10 million each – to the families of the 270 victims. The same month, Britain and Bulgaria co-sponsored a U.N. resolution which removed the suspended sanctions. (Bulgaria's involvement in tabling this motion led to suggestions that there was a link with the HIV trial in Libya in which 5 Bulgarian nurses, working at a Benghazi hospital, were accused of infecting 426 Libyan children with HIV.)[12] Forty percent of the compensation was then paid to each family, and a further 40% followed once U.S. sanctions were removed. Because the U.S. refused to take Libya off its list of state sponsors of terrorism, Libya retained the last 20% ($540 million) of the $2.7 billion compensation package. In October 2008 Libya paid $1.5 billion into a fund which will be used to compensate relatives of the
Lockerbie bombing victims with the remaining 20%;
American victims of the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing;
American victims of the 1989 UTA Flight 772 bombing; and,
Libyan victims of the 1986 US bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi.
As a result, President Bush signed an executive order restoring the Libyan government's immunity from terror-related lawsuits and dismissing all of the pending compensation cases in the US, the White House said.[13]
On 28 June 2007, Megrahi was granted the right to a second appeal against the Lockerbie bombing conviction.[14] One month later, the Bulgarian medics were released from jail in Libya. They returned home to Bulgaria and were pardoned by Bulgarian president, Georgi Parvanov.
Gaddafi's 2009 welcome to the return of convicted Lockerbie bomber Megrahi, who was released from prison on compassionate grounds, attracted criticism from Western leaders[15][16][17] and has disrupted his first-ever visit to the United States to attend a UN General Session. Gaddafi often resides in a tent when travelling[18], but plans to erect a tent in Central Park and on Libyan government property in Englewood, New Jersey during Gaddafi's stay at the UN were both protested by community leaders and subsequently cancelled by Gaddafi.[19][20][21] His tent finally found a home on an estate belonging to Donald Trump in Bedford.[22]
September 23, 2009 marked Gaddafi's first appearance at the United Nations General Assembly where he addressed world leaders at the annual gathering in New York. The Libyan leader while demanding representation for the African Union, used the occasion to scold the United Nations structure saying the 15-member body practised “security feudalism” for those who had a protected seat.[23] The Libyan leader's appearance at the United Nations generated demonstrations both for and against Gaddafi.[24]

Following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein by US forces in 2003, Gaddafi announced that his nation had an active weapons of mass destruction program, but was willing to allow international inspectors into his country to observe and dismantle them. US President George W. Bush and other supporters of the Iraq War portrayed Gaddafi's announcement as a direct consequence of the Iraq War by stating that Gaddafi acted out of fear for the future of his own regime if he continued to keep and conceal his weapons. Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, a supporter of the Iraq War, was quoted as saying that Gaddafi had privately phoned him, admitting as much. Many foreign policy experts, however, contend that Gaddafi's announcement was merely a continuation of his prior attempts at normalizing relations with the West and getting the sanctions removed. To support this, they point to the fact that Libya had already made similar offers starting four years prior to it finally being accepted.[25][26] International inspectors turned up several tons of chemical weaponry in Libya, as well as an active nuclear weapons program. As the process of destroying these weapons continued, Libya improved its cooperation with international monitoring regimes to the extent that, by March 2006, France was able to conclude an agreement with Libya to develop a significant nuclear power program.

In September 2009, at a South America-Africa summit on Isla Margarita in Venezuela, Colonel Gaddafi joined the host, Hugo Chávez, in calling for an "anti-imperialist" front across Africa and Latin America. Gaddafi proposed the establishment of a South Atlantic Treaty Organization to rival NATO, saying: "The world’s powers want to continue to hold on to their power. Now we have to fight to build our own power."[54]

In October 1993, there was an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Gaddafi by elements of the Libyan army. On 14 July 1996, bloody riots followed a football match in Tripoli organised by Gaddafi's son, as a protest against Gaddafi.

Gaddafi has eight children, seven of them sons.[65] His eldest son, Muhammad al-Gaddafi, was born to a wife now in disfavour, but runs the Libyan Olympic Committee. The next eldest son by his second wife is Saif al-Islam Muammar Al-Gaddafi, who was born in 1972 and is an architect. He runs a charity (GIFCA) which has been involved in negotiating freedom for hostages taken by Islamic militants, especially in the Philippines. In 2006, after sharply criticizing his father's regime, Saif Al Islam briefly left Libya, reportedly to take on a position in banking outside of the country. He returned to Libya soon after, launching an environment-friendly initiative to teach children how they can help clean up parts of Libya. He is involved in compensation negotiations with Italy and the United States. The third eldest, Saadi Gaddafi, is married to the daughter of a military commander. Saadi runs the Libyan Football Federation and signed for various professional teams including Italian Serie A team U.C. Sampdoria, although without appearing in first team games.

Gaddafi's fourth son, Moatessem-Billah Gaddafi, was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Libyan army.[66] He fled to Egypt after allegedly masterminding an Egyptian backed coup attempt against his father. Gaddafi forgave Moatessem and he returned to Libya where he now holds the post of national security adviser and heads his own unit within the army. Saif Al Islam and Moatessem-Billah are both seen as possible successors to their father.
The fifth eldest, Motassim Bilal (Hannibal) Gaddafi[67], once worked for General National Maritime Transport Company, a company that specializes in Libyan oil exports. He is most notable for being involved in a series of violent incidents throughout Europe. In 2001, Hannibal attacked three Italian policemen with a fire extinguisher; in September 2004, he was briefly detained in Paris after driving a Porsche at 90 mph in the wrong direction and through red lights down the Champs-Élysées while intoxicated; and in 2005, Hannibal in Paris allegedly beat model and then girlfriend Alin Skaf, who later filed an assault suit against him.[68] He was fined and given a four month suspended prison sentence after this incident. In December 2009 police were called to Claridges Hotel in London after staff heard a scream from Hannibal's room. Aline Skaf, now his wife, was found to have suffered facial injuries including a broken nose, but charges were not pressed after she maintained she had sustained the injuries in a fall[69].
On 15 July 2008, Hannibal and his wife were held for two days and charged with assaulting two of their staff in Geneva, Switzerland and then released on bail on 17 July. The government of Libya subsequently put a boycott on Swiss imports, reduced flights between Libya and Switzerland, stopped issuing visas to Swiss citizens, recalled diplomats from Bern, and forced all Swiss companies such as ABB and Nestlé to close offices. General National Maritime Transport Company, which owns a large refinery in Switzerland, also halted oil shipments to Switzerland.[70] Two Swiss businessmen who were in Libya at the time have, ever since, been denied permission to leave the country, and even held hostage for some time.[71] (see Switzerland-Libya conflict).
At the 35th G8 summit in July 2009, Gaddafi called Switzerland a "world mafia" and called for the country to be split between France, Germany and Italy.[72]
Gaddafi's two youngest sons are Saif Al Arab and Khamis, who is a police officer in Libya.
Gaddafi's only daughter is Ayesha al-Gaddafi, a lawyer who had joined the defense team of executed former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. She married a cousin of her father in 2006.
His adopted daughter, Hanna, was killed in the April 1986 United States bombing of Libya. At a "concert for peace", held on 15 April 2006 in Tripoli to mark the 20th anniversary of the bombing raid, U.S. singer Lionel Richie told the audience:
"Hanna will be honoured tonight because of the fact that you've attached peace to her name."[73]
In January 2002, Gaddafi purchased a 7.5% share of Italian football club Juventus for USD 21 million, through Lafico ("Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company"). This followed a long-standing association with the Italian industrialist Gianni Agnelli and car manufacturer Fiat.[74]
Gaddafi holds an honorary degree from Megatrend University in Belgrade conferred on him by former Yugoslav President Zoran Lilić.[75]

"Muammar Gaddafi" is the spelling used by Time magazine, BBC News, the majority of the British press and by the English service of Al-Jazeera.[87] The Associated Press, CNN, and Fox News use "Moammar Gadhafi". The Edinburgh Middle East Report uses "Mu'ammar Qaddafi" and the U.S. Department of State uses "Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi". The Xinhua News Agency uses "Muammar Khaddafi" in its English reports.[8

A host of murderous leaders were sponsored by Col Gaddafi, notably Charles Taylor, the Liberian despot, and Foday Sankoh, the psychotic commander of the rebels who laid waste to Sierra Leone.
Col Gaddafi also served as paymaster and arms dealer to the IRA, while helping out a host of extremists on the fringe of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. All this made him a crucial enemy of the West, causing President Ronald Reagan to label him a "mad dog" and order American bombers to strike Tripoli in 1986.
Two years later, Pan Am flight 103 was destroyed above Lockerbie. Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence agent, was later convicted for planting the bomb on the Boeing 747, while Col Gaddafi's regime formally accepted responsibility for this attack and paid compensation to the families of those who died.




Lockerbie

ACT OF remembrance: roll call of the 270 people from 21 nations who died in the Lockerbie bombing.
Lockerbie residents: Kathleen Mary Flannigan, Thomas Brown Flannigan, Joanne Flannigan, Dora Henrietta Henry, Maurice Peter Henry, Mary Lancaster, Jean Aitken Murray, John Somerville, Rosaleen Hannay Somerville, Paul Somerville and Lynsey Anne Somerville.
Syracuse University students: Steven Russell Berrell, Kenneth John Bissett, Stephen John Boland, Nicole Elise Boulanger, Timothy Michael Cardwell, Theodora Eugenia Cohen, Eric Michael Coker, Jason Michael Coker, Gary Leonard Colasanti, Scott Marsh Cory, Gretchen Joyce Dater, Shannon Davis, Turhan Michael Ergin, John Patrick Flynn, Pamela Elaine Herbert, Karen Lee Hunt, Christopher Andrew Jones, Julianne Frances Kelly, Wendy Anne Lincoln, Alexander Lowenstein, Suzanne Marie Miazga, Richard Paul Monetti, Anne Lindsey Otenasek, Peter Raymond Peirce, Sarah Susannah Buchanan Philipps, Frederick Sandy Phillips, Louise Ann Rogers, Thomas Britton Schultz, Amy Elizabeth Shapiro, Cynthia Joan Smith, Mark Lawrence Tobin, Alexia Kathryn Tsairis, Nicholas Andreas Vrenios, Kesha Weedon and Miriam Luby Wolfe.
Other passengers: John Michael Gerard Ahern, Sarah Margaret Aicher, John David Akerstrom, Ronald Ely, Alexander, Thomas Joseph Ammerman, Martin Lewis Apfelbaum, Rachel Marie Asrelsky, William Garretson Atkinson III, Judith E. Bernstein Atkinson, Clare Louise Bacciochi, Harry Michael Bainbridge, Stuart Murray Barclay, Jean Mary Bell, Julian MacBain Benello, Lawrence Ray Bennett, Philip Vernon Bergstrom, Alistair David Berkley, Michael Stuart Bernstein, Surinder Mohan Bhatia, Diane Anne Boatman-Fuller, Glen John Bouckley, Paula Marie Bouckley, Francis Boyer, Nicholas Bright, Daniel Solomon Browner (Beer), Colleen Renee Brunner, Timothy Guy Burman, Michael Warren Buser, Warren Max Buser.
Steven Lee Butler, William Martin Cadman, Fabiana Caffarone, Hernan Caffarone, Valerie Canady, Gregory Capasso, Bernt Wilmar Carlsson, Richard Anthony Cawley, Frank Ciulla, Bridget Concannon, Sean Concannon, Thomas Concannon, Tracey Jane Corner, Willis Larry Coursey, Patricia Mary Coyle, John Binning Cummock, Joseph Patrick Curry, William Allen Daniels, Gabriel Della Ripa, Joyce Christine Di Mauro, Gianfranca Di Nardo, Peter Thomas Stanley Dix, Om Dixit, Shanti Dixit, David Scott Dornstein, Michael Joseph Doyle, Edgar Howard Eggleston III, Charles Thomas Fisher IV.
Clayton Lee Flick, Arthur Fondiler, Robert Joseph Fortune, Paul Stephen Matthew Freeman, James Ralph Fuller, Ibolya Gabor, Amy Beth Gallagher, Matthew Kevin Gannon, Kenneth Raymond Garczynski, Kenneth James Gibson, William David Giebler Jr, Andrew Christopher Gillies-Wright, Olive Leonora Gordon, Linda Susan Gordon-Gorgacz, Anne Madelene Gorgacz, Loretta Anne Gorgacz.
David Jay Gould, Andre Nikolai Guevorgian, Nicola Jane Hall, Lorraine Frances Buser Halsch, Lynne Carol Hartunian, Anthony Lacey Hawkins, Rodney Peter Hilbert, Alfred Hill, Katherine Augusta Hollister, Josephine Lisa Hudson, Melina Kristina Hudson, Sophie Ailette Miriam Hudson, Roger Elwood Hurst, Elizabeth Sophie Ivell, Khalid Nazir Jaafar, Robert Van Houten Jeck, Paul Avron Jeffreys.
Rachel Mary Elisabeth Jeffreys, Kathleen Mary Jermyn, Beth Ann Johnson, Mary Alice Lincoln Johnson, Timothy Baron Johnson, Jay Joseph Kingham, Patricia Ann Klein, Gregory Kosmowski, Minas Christopher Kulukundis, Ronald Albert Lariviere, Robert Milton Leckburg Jr.
William Chase Leyrer, Lloyd David Ludlow, Maria Theresia Lurbke, William Edward Mack, Douglas Eugene Malicote, Wendy Gay Forsythe Malicote, Elizabeth Lillian Marek, Louis Anthony Marengo, Noel George Martin, Diane Marie Maslowski, William John McAllister, Daniel Emmet McCarthy, Robert Eugene McCollum, Charles Dennis McKee.
Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, Jane Susan Melber, John Merrill, Joseph Kenneth Miller, Jewel Courtney Mitchell, Jane Ann Morgan, Eva Ingeborg Morson, Helga Rachael Mosey, Ingrid Elizabeth Mulroy, John Mulroy, Sean Kevin Mulroy, Karen Elizabeth Noonan, Daniel Emmett O’Connor, Mary Denice O’Neil, Bryony Elise Owen, Gwyneth Yvonne Margaret Owen, Laura Abigail Owens, Martha Owens, Robert Plack Owens, Sarah Rebecca Owens, Robert Italo Pagnucco, Christos Michael Papadopoulos, Michael Pescatore, James Andrew Campbell Pitt.
David J. Platt, Walter Leonard Porter, Pamela Lynn Posen, William Pugh, Estrella Crisostomo Quiguvan, Rajesh Tarsis Priskel Ramses, Anmol Rattan, Garima Rattan, Suruchi Rattan, Anita Lynn Reeves, Mark Alan Rein, Diane Marie Rencevicz, Edina Roller, Janos Gabor Roller, Zsuzsana Pisa’k Roller, Hanne-Maria Maijala Root, Saul Mark Rosen, Andrea Victoria Rosenthal, Daniel Peter Rosenthal.
Arnaud David Rubin, Elyse Jeanne Saraceni, Scott Christopher Saunders, Theresa Elizabeth Jane Saunders, Johannes Otto Schauble, Robert Thomas Schlageter, Sally Elizabeth Scott, Mridula Shastri, Joan Sheanshang, Irving Stanley Sigal, Martin Bernard Christopher Simpson, Ingrid Anita Smith, James Alvin Smith, Mary Edna Smith, Geraldine Anne Stevenson, Hannah Louise Stevenson, John Charles Stevenson, Rachel Helen Stevenson, Charlotte Ann Stinnett, Michael Gary Stinnett, Stacey Leanne Stinnett, James Ralph Stow, Elia G. Stratis, Anthony Selwyn Swan, Flora MacDonald Margaret Swire.
Marc Alex Tager, Hidekazu Tanaka, Andrew Alexander Teran, Arva Anthony Thomas, Jonathan Ryan Thomas, Lawanda Thomas, David William Trimmer-Smith, Barry Joseph Valentino, Tomas Floro van Tienhoven, Asaad Eidi Vejdany, Peter Petrisor Vulcu, Janina Jozefa Waido.
Thomas Edwin Walker, Jerome Lee Weston, Jonathan White, Bonnie Leigh Rafferty Williams, Brittany Leigh Williams, Eric Jon Williams, George Waterson Williams, Stephanie Leigh Williams, Chelsea Marie Woods, Dedera Lynn Woods, Joe Nathan Woods, Joe Nathan Woods Jr, Mark James Zwynenburg.
Pan Am 103 crew: Elizabeth Clement-Avonye, Jerry Don Avritt, Noelle Lydie Campbell Berti, Siv Ulla Engstrom, Stacie Denise Franklin, Paul Isaac Garrett, Elke Etha Kuehne.
Maria Nieves de Larracoechea, Captain James Bruce MacQuarrie (pilot), Lilibeth Tobila McAlolooy, Mary Geraldine Murphy, Jocelyn Reina, Myra Josephine Royal, Irja Synnove Skabo, Milutin Velimirovich and Raymond Ronald Wagner.

Al-Megrahi, 57, was convicted in 2001 of taking part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988. The airliner -- which was carrying mostly American passengers to New York -- blew up as it flew over Scotland. All 259 people aboard and 11 more on the ground died when the aircraft crashed into the Scottish town of Lockerbie.

Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi, the Libyan terrorist convicted of planting the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, was released today from a prison in Scotland after serving just eight years of a life sentence. Al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 for the murder of 270 people, 189 of which were from the United States.

On December 22 1988, Pan Am flight 103 took off from London's Heathrow airport, headed for New York with 259 passengers on board. Approximately 38 minutes into the flight, the plane exploded at 31,000 feet over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all the passengers as well as 11 people on the ground. Al-Megrahi served only 8 years of a life sentence which is equivalent to 11.5 days for each of his victims.



Before Sept. 11, the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland in 1988 was the symbol of terrorist brutality.

ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI, born 1 April 1952 and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH, born 1956, Prisoners in the Prison of Zeist, Camp Zeist (Kamp van Zeist), The Netherlands:

You are Indicted at the instance of The Right Honourable THE LORD HARDIE, Her Majesty's Advocate, and the charges against you are that:

(1) between 1 January 1985 and 21 December 1988, both dates inclusive

at the premises occupied by you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and by the Libyan Intelligence Services, in Tripoli, Libya
at a special forces training area, Sabha, Libya
at the premises occupied by the firm MEBO AG
at the Novapark Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland
at Frankfurt am Main Airport, Federal Republic of Germany
at the Holiday Inn, Tigne Street, Sliema
at the Libyan People's Bureau, Tower Road, Sliema and Notabile Road, Balzan
at the Libyan Cultural Centre, Tower Road, Sliema, all in Malta
at the house occupied by you AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH at 3 St John's Flats, Spring Street, Mosta, Malta
at Luqa Airport, Malta and at the Libyan People's Bureau, East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, in Prague, Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Libya, Malta, Switzerland, the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, and elsewhere to the Prosecutor unknown
Being members of the Libyan Intelligence Services, and in particular being respectively the head of security of Libyan Arab Airlines and thereafter Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies, Tripoli, Libya and the Station Manager of Libyan Arab Airlines in Malta ...

You did conspire together and with others to further the purposes of the Libyan Intelligence Services by criminal means, namely the use of explosive devices in the commission of acts of terrorism directed against nationals and the interests of other countries and in particular the destruction of a civil passenger aircraft and murder of its occupants ...

And, in pursuance of said conspiracy, while acting in concert together and with others:

(a) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did between 1 January 1985 and 31 December 1985, both dates inclusive, through the hands of Said Rashid and Ezzadin Hinshiri, both also being members of the said Libyan Intelligence Services, and others at the said premises occupied by MEBO AG, in Zurich, aforesaid, at the said premises of said Libyan Intelligence Services, in Tripoli, aforesaid, at the said Libyan People's Bureau, East Berlin aforesaid and elsewhere to the Prosecutor unknown ...

Order, cause to be manufactured and obtain from the said firm of MEBO AG twenty electronic timers capable of detonating explosive devices;

(b) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did between 1 January 1985 and 30 June 1987 both dates inclusive at the said special forces training area at Sabha, Libya or elsewhere in Libya cause the effectiveness of such timers to be tested in conjunction with explosives under the supervision of Nassr Ashur, a member of the said Libyan Intelligence Services;

(c) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did between 1 January 1985 and 21 December 1988, both dates inclusive, within the offices of Libyan Arab Airlines at Luqa Airport, Malta, at the said Libyan Cultural Centre, Sliema aforesaid, the said premises occupied by the said Libyan People's Bureau, Malta, aforesaid, in an area of ground near Ghallis Tower, Malta and elsewhere in Malta have in your possession and under your control quantities of high performance plastic explosive and airline luggage tags;

(d) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI did between 31 July 1987 and 21 December 1988, both dates inclusive, within the said premises occupied by MEBO AG, in Zurich aforesaid establish and maintain along with Badri Hassan, also a member of the Libyan Intelligence Services, a pretended business under the name ABH as a cover for the operations of said Libyan Intelligence Services;

(e) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI did on 22 August 1987 travel from Zurich, Switzerland to Malta, enter Malta and reside at the Holiday Inn, Sliema, aforesaid and on 23 August 1987 depart from Malta and travel from there to Tripoli, Libya using a passport in the false name and using the false identity of Ahmed Khalifa Abdusamad, all while travelling along with the said Nassr Ashur, who was then using a passport in the false name and using the false identity of Nassr Ahmed Salem;

(f) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI did on 18 October 1987 travel from Tripoli, Libya to Malta and enter Malta and reside between 18 and 20 October 1987, both dates inclusive, at the Holiday Inn, Sliema, aforesaid and on 22 October 1987 depart from Malta and travel from there to Tripoli, Libya using a passport in the false name and using the false identity of Ahmed Khalifa Abdusamad;

(g) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did between 1 September 1988 and 21 December 1988, both dates inclusive, at Eucharistic Congress Road, Mosta, Malta and elsewhere in Malta and in Prague, Czechoslovakia take steps with others to establish and maintain pretended businesses to be known as and under the name of Med Tours or Medtours Services Limited and as and under the name of Al Khadra Company or Al Khadra Medtours Services respectively as cover for the operations of said Libyan Intelligence Services;

(h) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI did between 8 and 10 October 1988, both dates inclusive, at the premises occupied by Libyan Arab Airlines at Luqa Airport and Valletta, Malta and elsewhere in Malta attempt along with Mohammed Abouagela Masud, also a member of the said Libyan Intelligence Services, and others to the Prosecutor unknown, to travel to Ndjamena, Chad for the purpose of carrying out an operation on behalf of the said Libyan Intelligence Services;

(i) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did on 10 and 11 November 1988 cause the said Nassr Ashur to travel from Tripoli, Libya to Malta on 10 November 1988 and from Luqa Airport aforesaid to Frankfurt am Main Airport aforesaid on 11 November 1988 on Air Malta flight KM 2180 using a passport in the false name and using the false identity of Nassr Ahmed Salem;

(j) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did between 20 November and 20 December 1988, both dates inclusive, at the said premises occupied by MEBO AG, in Zurich aforesaid, at the said premises occupied by you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and by the said Libyan Intelligence Services, in Tripoli aforesaid, and elsewhere in Switzerland and Libya, through the hands of the said Ezzadin Hinshiri and Badri Hassan, order and attempt to obtain delivery of 40 further such timers from the said firm of MEBO AG;

(k) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did between 1 and 21 December 1988, both dates inclusive, at Luqa Airport, Malta without authority remove therefrom airline luggage tags;

(l) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI did on 7 December 1988 in the shop premises known as Mary's House at Tower Road, Sliema, Malta purchase a quantity of clothing and an umbrella;

(m) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did on 20 December 1988 at Luqa Airport, Malta enter Malta while you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI were using a passport in the false name of Ahmed Khalifa Abdusamad and you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did there and then cause a suitcase to be introduced to Malta;

(n) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI did on 20 and 21 December 1988 reside at the Holiday Inn, Sliema, aforesaid under the false identity of Ahmed Khalifa Abdusamad;

(o) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did on 21 December 1988 at Luqa Airport, aforesaid place or cause to be placed on board an aircraft of Air Malta flight KM180 to Frankfurt am Main Airport, Federal Republic of Germany said suitcase, or a similar suitcase, containing said clothing and umbrella and an improvised explosive device containing high performance plastic explosive concealed within a Toshiba RT SF 16 "Bombeat" radio cassette recorder and programmed to be detonated by one of said electronic timers, having tagged or caused such suitcase to be tagged so as to be carried by aircraft from Frankfurt am Main Airport aforesaid via London, Heathrow Airport to New York, John F Kennedy Airport, United States of America; and

(p) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI did on 21 December 1988 depart from Malta and travel from there to Tripoli, Libya using a passport in the false name of Ahmed Khalifa Abdusamad, while travelling with said Mohammed Abouagela Masud;

and such suitcase was thus carried to Frankfurt am Main Airport aforesaid and there placed on board an aircraft of Pan American World Airways flight PA103 and carried to London, Heathrow Airport aforesaid and there, in turn, placed on board an aircraft of Pan American World Airways flight PA103 to New York, John F Kennedy Airport aforesaid;

and said improvised explosive device detonated and exploded on board said aircraft flight PA103 while in flight near to Lockerbie, Scotland whereby the aircraft was destroyed and the wreckage crashed to the ground and the 259 passengers and crew named in Schedule 1 hereof and the 11 residents of Lockerbie aforesaid named in Schedule 2 hereof were killed and you did murder them;

and it will be shown that between 1 January 1985 and 21 December 1988, both dates inclusive, in Tripoli, Libya, at Dakar Airport, Senegal, in Malta and elsewhere the said Libyan Intelligence Services were in possession of said electronic timers, quantities of high performance plastic explosive, detonators and other components of improvised explosive devices and Toshiba RT SF 16 "Bombeat" radio cassette recorders, all for issue to and use by their members, including Mohammed El Marzouk and Mansour Omran Ammar Saber.

1. OR ALTERNATIVELY

(2) being members of said Libyan Intelligence Services as above libelled and having, while acting in concert with others, formed a criminal purpose to destroy a civil passenger aircraft and murder the occupants in furtherance of the purposes of said Libyan Intelligence Services and having obtained possession of and tested the effectiveness of electronic timers and being in possession of and having under your control quantities of high performance plastic explosive and airline luggage tags and having established and maintained and taken steps to establish and maintain pretended businesses all as above libelled, while acting in concert together and with others ...

(a) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did on 10 and 11 November 1988 cause the said Nassr Ashur, to travel from Tripoli, Libya to Malta on 10 November 1988 and from Luqa Airport aforesaid to Frankfurt am Main Airport aforesaid on 11 November 1988 on Air Malta flight KM 2180 using a passport in the false name and using the false identity of Nassr Ahmed Salem;

(b) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did between 20 November and 20 December 1988, both dates inclusive, at the said premises occupied by MEBO AG, in Zurich aforesaid, at the said premises occupied by you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and by the said Libyan Intelligence Services, in Tripoli aforesaid, and elsewhere in Switzerland and Libya, through the hands of the said Ezzadin Hinshiri and Badri Hassan, order and attempt to obtain delivery of forty further such timers from the said firm of MEBO AG;

(c) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did between 1 and 21 December 1988, both dates inclusive, at Luqa Airport, Malta without authority remove therefrom airline luggage tags;

(d) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI did on 7 December 1988 in the shop premises known as Mary's House at Tower Road, Sliema, Malta purchase a quantity of clothing and an umbrella;

(e) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did on 20 December 1988 at Luqa Airport, Malta enter Malta while you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI were using a passport in the false name of Ahmed Khalifa Abdusamad and you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did there and then cause a suitcase to be introduced to Malta;

(f) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI did on 20 and 21 December 1988 reside at the Holiday Inn, Sliema, aforesaid using the false identity of Ahmed Khalifa Abdusamad;

(g) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH did on 21 December 1988 at Luqa Airport, aforesaid place or cause to be placed on board an aircraft of Air Malta flight KM180 to Frankfurt am Main Airport, Federal Republic of Germany said suitcase, or a similar suitcase, containing said clothing and umbrella and an improvised explosive device containing high performance plastic explosive concealed within a Toshiba RT SF 16 "Bombeat" radio cassette recorder and programmed to be detonated by one of said electronic timers, having tagged or caused such suitcase to be tagged so as to be carried by aircraft from Frankfurt am Main Airport aforesaid via London, Heathrow Airport to New York, John F Kennedy Airport, United States of America; and

(h) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI did on 21 December 1988 depart from Malta to Tripoli and travel from there to Libya using a passport in the false name of Ahmed Khalifa Abdusamad, while travelling with said Mohammed Abouagela Masud;

and such suitcase was thus carried to Frankfurt am Main Airport aforesaid and there placed on board an aircraft of Pan American World Airways flight PA103 and carried to London, Heathrow Airport aforesaid and there, in turn, placed on board an aircraft of Pan American World Airways flight PA103 to New York, John F Kennedy Airport aforesaid;

and said improvised explosive device detonated and exploded on board said aircraft flight PA103 while in flight near to Lockerbie, Scotland whereby the aircraft was destroyed and the wreckage crashed to the ground and the 259 passengers and crew named in Schedule 1 hereof and the 11 residents of Lockerbie aforesaid named in Schedule 2 hereof were killed and you did murder them;

and it will be shown that between 1 January 1985 and 21 December 1988, both dates inclusive, in Tripoli, Libya, at Dakar Airport, Senegal, in Malta and elsewhere the said Libyan Intelligence Services were in possession of said electronic timers, quantities of high performance plastic explosive, detonators and other components of improvised explosive devices and Toshiba RT SF 16 "Bombeat" radio cassette recorders, all for issue to and use by their members, including Mohammed El Marzouk and Mansour Omran Ammar Saber.

OR ALTERNATIVELY

(3) you ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH being members of said Libyan Intelligence Services and having, while acting in concert with others, formed a criminal purpose to destroy a civil passenger aircraft and murder the occupants and having obtained possession of and tested the effectiveness of electronic timers and being in possession of and having under your control quantities of high performance plastic explosive and airport luggage tags, and having established and maintained and taken steps to establish and maintain pretended businesses all as above libelled, did on and between the dates and at the places in charge 2 above libelled, by the means there libelled, unlawfully and intentionally destroy said aircraft in service and commit on board said aircraft in flight acts of violence which were likely to and did endanger the safety of said aircraft, in respect that you did murder said persons:

and it will be shown that between 1 January 1985 and 21 December 1988, both dates inclusive, in Tripoli, Libya, at Dakar Airport, Senegal, in Malta and elsewhere the said Libyan Intelligence Services were in possession of said electronic timers, quantities of high performance plastic explosive, detonators and other components of improvised explosive devices and Toshiba RT SF 16 "Bombeat" radio cassette recorders, all for issue to and use by their members, including Mohammed El Marzouk and Mansour Omran Ammar Saber.

CONTRARY to the Aviation Security Act 1982, Section 2(1) and

(5) SCHEDULE 1

1.John Michael Gerard Ahern, 127 Sherman Avenue, Rockville Centre, New York 11570, United States of America

2.Sarah Margaret Aicher, 30E Stanhope Gardens, London

3.John David Akerstrom, 6822 Ryan Road, Medina, Ohio 44256, United States of America

4.Ronald Ely Alexander, 425 East 58th Street, New York, New York 10022, United States of America

5.Thomas Joseph Ammerman, 2 Forrest Avenue, Old Tappan, New Jersey 07676, United States of America

6.Martin Lewis Apfelbaum, 2505 18th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, United States of America

7.Rachel Marie Asrelsky, 605 Water Street, New York, New York 10002, United States of America

8.Judith Ellen Bernstein or Atkinson, Flat 3, 32 Cranley Gardens, South Kensington, London

9.William Garretson Atkinson III, Flat 3, 32 Cranley Gardens, South Kensington, London

10.Elisabeth Nicole Marie Avoyne, 2 Avenue Francois Patrocle, 78290 Croissy Sur Seine, France

11.Jerry Don Avritt, 14031 Bexley Street, Westminster, California 92683, United States of America

12.Clare Louise Bacciochi, aged 19 years, 21 Hillside, Kingsbury, Tamworth, Warwickshire

13.Harry Michael Bainbridge, 9 Marisa Court, Montrose, New York 10548, United States of America

14.Stuart Murray Barclay, Honey Hill Farm, Barnard, Vermont 05031, United States of America

15.Jean Mary Crispin or Bell, The Silver Suite, Mellor House, Charles Street, Windsor, Berkshire

16.Julian MacBain Benello, 143 Longwood Avenue, Apartment 4, Brookline, Massachusetts 02146, United States of America

17.Lawrence Ray Bennett, 2828 McKinley Street, Chelsea, Michigan 48118, United States of America

18.Philip Vernon Bergstrom, 400 South Lake Street, Apartment 9, CMA Forest Lake, Minnesota 55025, United States of America

19.Alistair David Berkley, 30 Sutton Square, London

20.Michael Stuart Bernstein, 6012 Cairn Terrace, Bethesda, Maryland 20817, United States of America

21.Steven Russell Berrell, aged 20 years, 1216 South Ninth Street, Fargo, North Dakota 58103, United States of America

22.Noelle Lydie Berti, 1 Rue D'Armenomville, Paris, France 754017

23.Surinder Mohan Bhatia, 810 Camino Real Road, 202 Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, California 90277, United States of America

24.Kenneth John Bissett, 120 East Hartsdale Avenue, Apartment 1K, Hartsdale, New York 10530, United States of America

25.Diane Ann Boatman-Fuller, 58 Swinburn Court, Blanchedowne Road, Denmark Hill, London

26.Stephen John Boland, aged 20 years, 4 Century Road, Nashua, New Hampshire 03060, United States of America

27.Glenn John Bouckley, 7300 Cedarpost Road, Apartment C1, Liverpool, New York 13088, United States of America

28.Paula Marie Alderman or Bouckley, 7300 Cedarpost Road, Apartment C1, Liverpool, New York 13088, United States of America

29.Nicole Elise Boulanger, 46 Worthington Avenue, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts 01545, United States of America

30.Francis Boyer, 4 Place De L'Eperon, Lotissement, Auzeville, Toulosane 31320, France

31.Nicholas Bright, 7 Beals Street, Brookline, Massachusetts 02146, United States of America

32.Daniel Solomon Browner (Beer), Kibbutz, Parod, Northern Israel

33.Colleen Renee Brunner, aged 20 years, 7164 Parkside Drive, Hamburg, New York 14075, United States of America

34.Timothy Guy Burman, 49A Hotham Road, London

35.Michael Warren Buser, 99 Teaneck Road, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey 07660, United States of America

36.Warren Max Buser, 169 Hillman Avenue, Glenrock, New Jersey 07452, United States of America

37.Steven Lee Butler, 1141 South Clarkson Street, Denver, Colorado 80210, United States of America

38.William Martin Cadman, 13 Surrendale Place, London

39.Fabiana Benvenuto or Caffarone, 21 Donne Place, London

40.Herman Luis Caffarone, 21 Donne Place, London

41.Valerie Canady, 127 Jackson Avenue, South Park, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505-6567, United States of America

42.Gregory Joseph Capasso, 1841 East 33rd Street, Brooklyn, New York 11234, United States of America

43.Timothy Michael Cardwell, RD1, Box 203, Cresco, Pennsylvania 18326, United States of America

44.Bernt Wilmar Carlsson, Apartment 30, 207 West 106th Street, New York, New York 10025, United States of America

45.Richard Anthony Cawley, 241 Central Park West, New York, New York 10024, United States of America

46.Frank Ciulla, 29 Clifford Drive, Parkridge, New Jersey 97656, United States of America

47.Theodora Eugenia Cohen, aged 20 years, 67 Wisconsin, Long Island, New York 11561, United States of America

48.Eric Michael Coker, aged 20 years, 137 Hilltop Road, Mendham, New Jersey 07945, United States of America

49.Jason Michael Coker, aged 20 years, 137 Hilltop Road, Mendham, New Jersey 07945, United States of America

50.Gary Leonard Colasanti, aged 20 years, 60 Garfield Road, Melrose, Massachusetts 02176, United States of America

51.Bridget Mulroy or Concannon, 20 Nuffield Drive, Banbury, Oxfordshire

52.Sean Concannon, aged 16 years, 20 Nuffield Drive, Banbury, Oxfordshire

53.Thomas Concannon, 20 Nuffield Drive, Banbury, Oxfordshire

54.Tracey Jane Corner, aged 17 years, 12 Springfield Avenue, Millhouses, Sheffield

55.Scott Marsh Cory, aged 20 years, 25 Chadwick Drive, Old Lyme Court, Connecticut 06371, United States of America

56.Willis Larry Coursey, 307 Cresham Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78218, United States of America

57.Patricia Mary Coyle, aged 20 years, 62 Seiter Hill Road, Wallingford, Connecticut 06492, United States of America

58.John Binning Cummock, 271 Vistalmar Street, Coral Gables, Florida 33143, United States of America

59.Joseph Patrick Curry, 885B Beach Street, Fort Devens, Massachusetts 01433, United States of America

60.William Alan Daniels, 20 Sweet Briar Court, Belle Mead, New Jersey 08502, United States of America

61. Gretchen Joyce Dater, aged 20 years, 27 Mohawk Drive, Ramsey, New Jersey 07446, United States of America

62.Shannon Davis, aged 19 years, 32 Isinglass Road, Shelton, Connecticut 06484, United States of America

63.Gabriele Della-Ripa, 406 Plainfield Avenue, Floral Park, New York 11001, United States of America

64.Om Dikshit, 2955 Wylie Drive, Fairborn, Ohio 45324, United States of America

65.Joyce Christine Dimauro, 352 East 18th Street, New York, New York 10003, United States of America

66.Gianfranca Dinardo, Flat 4, 24 Cranley Gardens, South Kensington, London

67.Peter Thomas Stanley Dix, 52 Coborn Road, Bow, London

68.Shanti Devi or Dixit, 2955 Wylie Drive, Fairborn, Ohio 45324, United States of America

69.David Scott Dornstein, 7703 Seminole Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19126, United States of America

70.Michael Joseph Doyle, 17 Arcadia Drive, Voorhees, New Jersey 08043, United States of America

71.Edgar Howard Eggleston III, RD4, Box 296A, Glen Falls, New York 12801, United States of America

72.Siv Ulla Engstrom, 6 Rays Avenue, Windsor, Berkshire

73.Turhan Ergin, 97 Cliffmore Road, West Hartford, Connecticut 06105, United States of America

74.Charles Thomas Fisher IV, 19 Beaufort Gardens, Flat 4, Chelsea, London

75.Clayton Lee Flick, 68 Rugby Road, Binley Woods, Coventry

76.John Patrick Flynn, 10 West Lake Drive, Montville, New Jersey 07045, United States of America

77.Arthur Jay Fondiler, 9 Seymour Place, West Armonk, New York 10504, United States of America

78.Robert Gerard Fortune, 34-05 80th Street, Jackson Heights, New York 11372, United States of America

79.Stacie Denise Franklin, aged 20 years, 1366 Thomas Avenue, San Diego, California 92109, United States of America

80.Paul Matthew Stephen Freeman, 19 Manor Mansions, Belsize Grove, London

81.James Ralph Fuller, 351 Lonepine Court, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48013, United States of America

82.Ibolya Robertne Drucker or Gabor, Wesselenyi 6, Budapest, Hungary

83.Amy Beth Gallagher, 246 Vista, Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada

84.Matthew Kevin Gannon, 611 North Ardmore, Los Angeles, California 90004, United States of America

85.Kenneth Raymond Garczynski, 1673 Hudson Avenue, North Brunswick, New Jersey 08902, United States of America

86.Paul Isaac Garrett, 482 Cross Street, Napa, California 94559, United States of America

87.Kenneth James Gibson, aged 20 years, 6/502 Infantry Army Post Office, New York, New York 09742, United States of America

88.William David Giebler, 52 Radcliffe Square, London

89.Andrew Christopher Gillies-Wright, 5 Esher Mews, Mitcham, Surrey

90.Olive Leonora Gordon, 182 William Bonney Estate, London

91.Linda Susan Gordon-Gorgacz, 5 Devere Gardens, Kensington, London

92.Anne Madelene Chaback or Gorgacz, 5 East Wallace Avenue, Apartment 201, Newcastle, Pennsylvania 16101, United States of America

93.Loretta Anne Gorgacz, 5 East Wallace Avenue, Apartment 201, Newcastle, Pennsylvania 16101, United States of America

94.David Jay Gould, 5883 Bartlett Street, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania 15217, United States of America

95.Andre Nikolai Guevorgian, 8 Carrpenter Place, Sea Cliff, Long Island, New York 11579, United States of America

96.Nicola Jane Hall, 34 Second Avenue, Illovo, Sandton 2196, South Africa

97.Lorraine Frances Buser or Halsch, 24 Camborne Circle, Fairport, New York 14450, United States of America

98.Lynne Carol Hartunian, 5 Tamarack Lane, Schenectady, New York 12309, United States of America

99.Anthony Lacey Hawkins, 805 East 21st Street, Brooklyn, New York 11210, United States of America

100.Pamela Elaine Herbert, aged 19 years, 378 Parkway Drive, Battle Creek, Michigan 49017, United States of America

101.Rodney Peter Hilbert, 117 South Congress Street, Newtown, Pennsylvania 18940, United States of America

102.Alfred Hill, Heimenhofenstrasse 3, 8972 Sonthofen, West Germany

103.Katherine Augusta Hollister, aged 20 years, 64-11 99th Street, Apartment 604, Rego Park, New York 11374, United States of America

104.Josephine Lisa Hudson, Flat 4, Arton Wilson House, North Wing, Roehampton Lane, London

105.Melina Kristina Hudson, aged 16 years, 124 Lancaster Street, Albany, New York 12210, United States of America

106.Sophie Ailette Miriam Hudson, 14 Rue Therese, Paris 75001, France

107.Karen Lee Hunt, aged 20 years, 477 Maplewoods Lane, Webster, New York 14580, United States of America

108.Roger Elwood Hurst, 43 Lake Riconda Drive, Ringwood, New Jersey 07456, United States of America

109.Elizabeth Sophie Ivell, aged 19 years, 24 High Street, Roberts Bridge, East Sussex

110.Khaled Nazir Jaafar, aged 20 years, 6519 Manor Street, Dearborn, Michigan 48126, United States of America

111.Robert van Houten Jeck, 145 Lake Drive, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey 07046, United States of America

112.Paul Avron Jeffreys, 8 Orchard Cottages, Clifton Road, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey

113.Rachel Mary Elizabeth Jones or Jeffreys, 8 Orchard Cottages, Clifton Road, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey

114.Kathleen Mary Jermyn, aged 20 years, 35 Sheridan Place, Staten Island, New York 10312, United States of America

115.Beth Ann Johnson, 226 Wren Drive, Greensburg, Pennsylvania 15601, United States of America

116.Mary Lincoln Johnson, 18 Adams Lane, Wayland, Massachusetts 01778, United States of America

117.Timothy Baron Johnson, 2024 West Lake Avenue, Neptune Township, New Jersey 07753, United States of America

118.Christopher Andrew Jones, aged 20 years, Courts Lane, Claverack, New York 12513, United States of America

119.Julianne Frances Kelly, aged 20 years, 31 Massachusetts Avenue, Dedham, Massachusetts 02026, United States of America

120.Jay Joseph Kingham, 10821 Stanmore Drive, Potomac, Maryland 20854, United States of America

121.Patricia Ann Klein, 1108 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, New Jersey 08629, United States of America

122.Gregory Kosmowski, 3253 Tipisco Lake Road, Milford, Michigan 48042, United States of America

123.Elke Etha Kuhne, Langensalza Strasse 20, 3 Hanover, West Germany

124.Minas Christopher Kulukundis, 6 Shalcomb Street, London

125.Ronald Albert Lariviere, 200 North Pickett Street, Apartment 903, Alexandria, Virginia 22304, United States of America

126.Maria Nieves Larracoechea, Castello 83, Madrid 28006, Spain

127. Robert Milton Leckburg, 601 Plainfield Avenue, Piscatawa, New Jersey 08854, United States of America

128. William Chase Leyrer, 52 Maple Avenue, Bayshore, New York 11706, United States of America

129.Wendy Anne Lincoln, 294 Notch Road, North Adams, Massachusetts 01247, United States of America

130.Alexander Lowenstein, 24 Old Orchard Road, Mendham Township, Morristown, New Jersey 07960, United States of America

131.Lloyd David Ludlow, Headquarters HQ Company, 4th Brigade, Army Post Office, New York, New York 09185, United States of America

132.Maria Theresia Lurbke, Arnsberger Strasse 47, 5983 Balve-Beckum, West Germany

133.James Bruce MacQuarrie, 32 North Road, Kensington, New Hampshire 03833, United States of America

134.William John McAllister, 124 Peregrine Road, Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex

135.Daniel Emmet McCarthy, 127 92nd Street, Brooklyn, New York 11209, United States of America

136.Robert Eugene McCollum, 1248 Thomas Road, Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087, United States of America

137.Charles Dennis McKee, HOS USA Intelligence Section Command, Arlington Hall Station, Virginia 22212, United States of America

138.Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, 108 Norwood Avenue, Cranston, Rhode Island 02905, United States of America

139.Lilibeth Tobila Macalolooy, Morfelder Strasse 97, 6092 Kelsterbach, West Germany

140.William Edward Mack, 202 East 92nd Street, New York, New York 10128, United States of America

141.Douglas Eugene Malicote, 97th Signal Battalion, Army Post Office, New York, New York 02028, United States of America

142. Wendy Gay Forsyth or Malicote, 97th Signal Platoon, US Army Base, Mannheim, West Germany

143. Elizabeth Lillian Marek, 202 West 92nd Street, New York, New York 10025, United States of America

144.Louis Anthony Marengo, 1579 Stoney Creek Drive, Rochester, Michigan 48063, United States of America

145.Noel George Martin, also known as Joseph Emmanuel Barzey, 1 Ashdon House, North Old Road, Clapton, Gloucestershire

146.Diane Marie Maslowski, 130 Prospect Road, Haddonfield, New Jersey 08033, United States of America

147.Jane Susan Melber, 17 Melrose Gardens, Burnt Oak, Middlesex

148.John Merrill, 1 Heath Hall, High Street, Baldock, Hertfordshire

149.Suzanne Marie Miazga, RD1, Box 221, Benton Road, Marcy, New York 13403, United States of America

150.Joseph Kenneth Miller, 381 Westwood Road, Woodmere, New York 11598, United States of America

151.Jewel Courtney Mitchell, 1154 Union Street, Brooklyn, New York 11225, United States of America

152.Richard Paul Monetti, aged 20 years, 1615 Longfellow Drive, Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08003, United States of America

153.Jane Ann Morgan, Flat 1, 10 Brompton Square, London

154.Eva Ingeborg Fuchs or Morson, 185 East 85th Street, New York, New York 10028, United States of America

155.Helga Rachael Mosey, aged 19 years, 42 Titford Road, Oldbury, Warley, West Midlands

156.Ingrid Elisabeth Svensson or Mulroy, Kamnarsvagen 9L126, 22246 Lund, Sweden

157.John Mulroy, 35 Cherrywood Drive, East North Port, New York 11731, United States of America

158.Sean Kevin Mulroy, Kamnarsvagen, 9L126, 22246 Lund, Sweden

159.Mary Geraldine Murphy, 1 Cranebrook Manor Road, Twickenham, Middlesex

160.Karen Elizabeth Noonan, aged 20 years, 11901 Glenmill Road, Potomac, Maryland 20854, United States of America

161.Daniel Emmett O'Connor, 17 Lawley Street, Dorchester, Massachusetts 02122, United States of America

162.Mary Denice O'Neill, 1675 Metropolitan Avenue, Bronx, New York 10462, United States of America

163.Ane Lindsey Otenasek, 110 Tunbridge Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21212, United States of America

164.Bryony Elise Owen, aged 1 year, 59 Chelsea Park, Easton, Bristol

165.Gwyneth Yvonne Margaret Owen, 59 Chelsea Park, Easton, Bristol

166.Laura Abigail Owens, aged 8 years, 101 Rockingham Road, Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08034, United States of America

167.Martha Ives or Owens, 101 Rockingham Road, Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08034, United States of America

168.Robert Plack Owens, 101 Rockingham Road, Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08034, United States of America

169.Sarah Rebecca Owens, aged 14 years, 101 Rockingham Road, Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08034, United States of America

170.Robert Italo Pagnucco, Oscaleta Road, South Salem, New York 10590, United States of America

171.Christos Michael Papadopoulos, 217 Harborview, North Lawrence, New York 12938, United States of America

172.Peter Raymond Peirce, 860 East Boundry Street, Perrysburg, Ohio 43551, United States of America

173.Michael Cosimo Pescatore, 5482 Banbery Drive, Medina, Solon, Ohio 44139, United States of America

174. Sarah Susannah Buchanan Philipps, aged 20 years, 78 Hull Street, Newtonville, Massachusetts 02160, United States of America

175.Frederick Sandford Phillips, 12 Van Lee Drive, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205, United States of America

176.James Andrew Campbell Pitt, 96 College Street, South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075, United States of America

177.David Platt, 76 Belfast Avenue, Staten Island, New York 10306, United States of America

178.Walter Leonard Porter, 85 Remsen Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11212, United States of America

179.Pamela Lynn Posen, aged 20 years, 88 Haviland Road, Harrison, New York 10528, United States of America

180.William Pugh, 103 South Claremont Avenue, Margate City, New Jersey 08402, United States of America

181.Crisostomo Estrella Quiguyan, 37 Park View, Monks Park, Wembley, London

182.Rajesh Tarsis Priskel Ramses, 10 Eastfield Court, Eastile Road, Leicester

183.Anmol Rattan, aged 2 years, 24301 Panama, Warren, Michigan 48091, United States of America

184.Garima Dixit or Rattan, 24301 Panama, Warren, Michigan 48091, United States of America

185.Suruchi Rattan, aged 3 years, 24301 Panama, Warren, Michigan 48091, United States of America

186.Anita Lynn Reeves, 801 Fairlawn Avenue, Apartment 4, Laurel, Maryland 20707, United States of America

187.Mark Alan Rein, 220 East 63rd Street, New York, New York 10021, United States of America

188.Jocelyn Reina, 732 Great Western Road, Isleworth, Middlesex

189.Diane Marie Rencevicz, 325 West Union Street, Burlington, New Jersey 08016, United States of America

190. Louise Ann Rogers, 3508 Sundown Farms Way, Olney, Maryland 20832, United States of America

191.Edina Roller, aged 5 years, Vac, Koto Utca 7, H-2600, Hungary

192.Janos Gabor Roller, Vac, Koto Utca 7, H-2600, Hungary

193.Zsuzsanna Pisak or Roller, Vac, Koto Utca 7, H-2600, Hungary

194.Hanne Maria Maijala or Root, 20 West 72nd Street, Apartment 609, New York, New York 10023, United States of America

195.Saul Mark Rosen, 116 Burnham Road, Morris Plains, New Jersey 07950, United States of America

196.Andrea Victoria Rosenthal, 784 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10021, United States of America

197.Daniel Peter Rosenthal, aged 20 years, 36 Hamilton Avenue, Staten Island, New York 10301, United States of America

198.Myra Josephine Royal, 30 Clitherow Avenue, Hanwell, London

199.Arnaud David Rubin, 68 Avenue Des Croix Du Feu, Waterloo 1410, Belgium

200.Elyse Jeanne Saraceni, aged 20 years, Mews Room 17, 1 Park Crescent Mews East, London

201.Scott Christopher Saunders, 2996 Macungie Road, Macungie, Pennsylvania 18062, United States of America

202.Teresa Elizabeth Jane Wilson or Saunders, 124 Peregrine Road, Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex

203.Johannes Otto Schaeuble, Kappellenweg 6, 7407 Rottenburg, Wurmlingen, West Germany

204.Robert Thomas Schlageter, aged 20 years, 814 West Shore Road, Warwick, Rhode Island 02889, United States of America

205.Thomas Britton Schultz, aged 20 years, 142 Wilton Road, Ridgefield, Connecticut 06877, United States of America

206.Sally Elizabeth Scott, 4 Woodvale Lane, Huntington, New York 11743, United States of America

207. Amy Elizabeth Shapiro, 77 Brook Run Lane, Stamford, Connecticut 06905, United States of America

208.Mridula Shastri, Room 1, St Johns College, 11 St Johns Street, Oxford

209.Joan Lichtenstein or Sheanshang, 4 East 89th Street, New York, New York 10128, United States of America

210.Irving Stanley Sigal, 120 East Delaware Avenue, Pennington, New Jersey 08574, United States of America

211.Martin Bernard Carruthers Simpson, 249 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, New York 11215, United States of America

212.Irja Syhnove Skabo, Ankerveien 17-0390, Oslo, Norway

213.Cynthia Joan Smith, 340 Brook Road, Milton, Massachusetts 02186, United States of America

214.Ingrid Anita Leadgard or Smith, Malthouse Cottage, Church Lane, Bray, Berkshire

215.James Alvin Smith, 139 East 35th Street, New York, New York 10016, United States of America

216.Mary Edna Hall or Smith, 97th Signal Battalion, Army Post Office, New York, New York 09028, United States of America

217.Geraldine Anne O'Gara or Stevenson, 44 Manor Road, South Hinchley Wood, Esher, Surrey

218.Hannah Louise Stevenson, aged 10 years, 44 Manor Road, South Hinchley Wood, Esher, Surrey

219.John Charles Stevenson, 44 Manor Road, South Hinchley Wood, Esher, Surrey.

220.Rachael Stevenson, aged 8 years, 44 Manor Road, South Hinchley Wood, Esher, Surrey

221.Charlotte Ann McGuire or Stinnett, 1526 Lime Leaf Lane, Duncanville, Texas 75137, United States of America

222.Michael Gary Stinnett, 1526 Lime Leaf Lane, Duncanville, Texas 75137, United States of America

223. Stacey Leanne Stinnett, aged 9 years, 1526 Lime Leaf Lane, Duncanville, Texas 75137, United States of America

224.James Ralph Stow, 205 East 95th Street, Apartment 31D, New York, New York 10128, United States of America

225.Elia G Stratis, 57 Longridge Road, Montvale, New Jersey 07645, United States of America

226.Anthony Selwyn Swan, 41 Halsey Street, Brooklyn, New York 11216, United States of America

227.Flora MacDonald Margaret Swire, William Goodenough House, Mecklenburgh Square, Bloomsbury, London

228.Marc Alex Tager, 3 Cedars Close, Hendon, London

229.Hidekazu Tanaka, Flat 6, 110 Gloucester Terrace, London

230.Andrew Alexander Teran, aged 20 years, Pearson College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States of America

231.Arva Anthony Thomas, aged 17 years, 14075 Marlowe, Detroit, Michigan 48227, United States of America

232.Jonathan Ryan Thomas, aged 2 months, 15838 Harden Circle, Southfield, Michigan 48075, United States of America

233.Lawanda Coleman or Thomas, 15838 Harden Circle, Southfield, Michigan 48075, United States of America

234.Mark Lawrence Tobin, 36 St Pauls Road, North Hempstead, New York 11550, United States of America

235.David William Trimmer-Smith, 222 East 56th Street, Apartment 5A, New York, New York, 10022, United States of America

236.Alexia Kathryn Tsairis, aged 20 years, 379 Vance Avenue, Franklyn Lakes, New Jersey 07417, United States of America

237.Barry Joseph Valentino, 119 Haight Street, Apartment 16, San Francisco, California 94102, United States of America

238. Tomas Floro van Tienhoven, Jose C Paz, 738 Accassuso, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and also at 11 Argyll Road, London

239. Asaad Eidi Vejdany, 32 Somerset Drive South, Great Neck, New York 11020, United States of America

240.Milutin Velimirovich, 33 Dorset Way, Heston, Hounslow, Middlesex

241.Nicholas Andreas Vrenios, aged 20 years, 6628 32nd Street, NW Washington DC 20015, United States of America

242.Peter Vulcu, 1541 Overlook, Alliance, Ohio 44601, United States of America

243.Raymond Ronald Wagner, 165 Pennington-Harbourton Road, Pennington, New Jersey 08534, United States of America

244.Janina Jozefa Rusniak or Mitka or Waido, 2257 North Lavergne Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60639, United States of America

245.Thomas Edwin Walker, 192 Taylor Street, Wallaston, Quincy, Massachusetts 02170, United States of America

246.Kesha Weedon, aged 20 years, 2525 Aqueduct Avenue, Bronx, New York 10468, United States of America

247.Jerome Lee Weston, 3134 Eastern Parkway, Baldwin, Long Island, New York 11510, United States of America

248.Jonathan White, 11229 Blix Street, North Hollywood, California 91620, United States of America

249.Bonnie Leigh Rafferty or Williams, 516th Engineer Company, Army Post Office, New York, New York 09165, United States of America

250.Brittany Leigh Williams, aged 2 months, 516th Engineer Company, Army Post Office, New York, New York 09165, United States of America

251.Eric Jon Williams, 516th Engineer Company Army Post Office, New York, New York 09165, United States of America

252.George Waterson Williams, 305 Garnett Road, Joppa, Maryland 21085, United States of America

253.Stephanie Leigh Williams, aged 1 year, 516th Engineer Company, Army Post Office, New York, New York 09165, United States of America

254. Miriam Luby Wolfe, aged 20 years, 120 Kennedy Drive, Severna Park, Maryland 21146, United States of America

255.Chelsea Marie Woods, aged 10 months, Apartment 1151, 6750 Vogelweh Housing, West Germany

256.Dedera Lynn Copeland or Woods, Apartment 1151, 6750 Vogelweh Housing, West Germany

257.Joe Nathan Woods, Apartment 1151, 6750 Vogelweh Housing, West Germany

258.Joe Nathan Woods Jnr, aged 2 years, Apartment 1151, 6750 Vogelweh Housing, West Germany

259.Mark James Zwynenburg, 151 Foxwood Road, West Nyack, New York 10994, United States of America

SCHEDULE 2

1.Joanne Flannigan, aged 10 years, 16 Sherwood Crescent, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire

2.Kathleen Mary Doolan or Flannigan, 16 Sherwood Crescent, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire

3.Thomas Brown Flannigan, 16 Sherwood Crescent, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire

4.Dora Henrietta Moffat or Henry, Arranmore, 13 Sherwood Crescent, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire

5.Maurice Peter Henry, Arranmore, 13 Sherwood Crescent, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire

6.Mary Browell or Lancaster, 11 Sherwood Crescent, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire

7.Jean Aitken Murray, Westerly, 14 Sherwood Crescent, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire

8.John Somerville, 15 Sherwood Crescent, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire

9.Lynsey Anne Somerville, aged 10 years, 15 Sherwood Crescent, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire

10.Paul Somerville, aged 13 years, 15 Sherwood Crescent, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire

11.Rosaleen Leiter Hanney or Somerville, 15 Sherwood Crescent, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire


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Monday, January 4, 2010

ny socialites art basel miami beach swiss bank scam tax fraud

art basel miami beach swiss bank scam tax fraud

Is the art basel honeymoon with ny socialites over?


art basel miami beach swiss bank scam tax fraud





art basel miami beach swiss bank scam tax fraud



The real purpose of art basel has nothing to do with art

In 2009 it was revealed that swiss bank (USB) sponsored and used art basel miami beach to meet with uber rich people (ny socialites) to get them to invest their money in tax evading schemes, and to also meet and report to the account holders of their investments and interests
earned.

Note: there is no bank statements, and online banking is forbidden.

60 Minutes on CBS
On sunday 01/03/10 (yesterday), 60 minutes revealed swiss bank USB was using art bazel miami beach.
art basel miami beach swiss bank scam

No wonder the parties were so lavish, and open, and no wonder it attracted ny socialites and other wealthy young people.

What kind of other events around the country or world are secretly sponsored by swiss banks to gain new accounts and investments?

Will the man who revealed the swiss bank secrets, be given a percentage of recovered billions in taxes?

Will it be worth it for others to reveal these secrets even though they will have to do jail time?



from the art basel website and wikipedia:

Art Basel Miami Beach

Art Basel Miami Beach is an annual contemporary art art exhibition held in Miami, Florida, and is a sister event to Art Basel in Switzerland. Art Basel Miami Beach has been held annually since 2002, has been held throughout the city each December. Along with adjoining fairs and associated events, Art Basel Miami Beach has eclipsed the original Art Basel in size, popularity, if not importance. Events for Art Basel Miami Beach are held in art galleries in the Miami neighborhoods of Wynwood and the Miami Design District. Events in Downtown Miami are held in coordination with the Miami Art Museum and Downtown area associations at Bicentennial Park and Bayfront Park, as well as Downtown theatres such as the Gusman Theater.

Larger exhibits at Art Basel are held in the Miami neighborhood of South Beach with free, public exhibits held along the beach and in various parks around South Beach. More private events are held at the Miami Beach Convention Center with expositions of artists from around the world. The Lincoln Theatre, Colony Theatre, and local bookstores are also host to many Art Basel movie showings, and expositions. Most art galleries and studios in the area host public events in correlation for Art Basel that showcase local Miami artists work. Many local galleries and artists also have special events and exhibitions before and after the official Art Basel dates, to take advantage of the increased media and patrons. This has increased the importance, popularity, and size of Art Basel Miami Beach to the international art community.

UBS involvement in art basel:
Art Basel Miami Beach is the sister event of Art Basel, the prestigious international show for modern and contemporary art that is presented annually in Switzerland. UBS has a longstanding relationship with Art Basel, serving as main sponsor for 16 years and is now main sponsor of Art Basel Miami Beach for an eighth consecutive year.

http://www.ubs.com/1/e/about/sponsor/contemporary_art/art_basel_miami_beach.html

Art Basel is the most important fair for modern and contemporary art. This year it celebrated its 40th anniversary. UBS is main sponsor of Art Basel since 1994 and for ten years also supports the Art Basel special exhibition

http://www.ubs.com/1/e/about/sponsor/contemporary_art/artbasel2.html

USB SECRECY
  • The protection of the legitimate right to privacy of our bank clients will remain intact - as declared by the Swiss Government. UBS emphatically supports this position.

  • Switzerland is adopting an emerging global standard. Switzerland repeatedly said that a "level-playing field" with other financial centers is paramount.

  • Switzerland has declared that it will not adopt the automatic exchange of information nor allow for unspecific "fishing expeditions" by foreign authorities. It will permit the exchange of information with other countries in individual cases where a specific and justified request has been made.

  • This is a political and legislative process that reflects the Swiss Federal Council's intention to improve cooperation with other governments in combating tax offenses and to initiate a dialogue with non-EU and non-EFTA countries concerning taxation of interest income.

  • UBS will respect this framework and supports Switzerland's intentions.


Swiss bank client confidentiality

On 13 March, Switzerland declared that it will adopt the OECD standards regarding the exchange of information upon request in tax matters. It is a global standard, recently also adopted by all major offshore financial centers, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and Monaco. The protection of the legitimate right to privacy of our clients will remain intact.

John Doe Summons Settlement & US - Swiss Double Taxation Treaty Process
John Doe Summons Settlement &  US - Swiss Double Taxation Treaty Process

On August 19, 2009 UBS AG announced the signing of a settlement agreement with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Department of Justice regarding the John Doe summons issued on 21 July 2008. At the same time the governments of Switzerland and the United States announced the signing of a related agreement.

In accordance with these settlements, on 31 August 2009, the IRS submitted a request for administrative assistance pursuant to the existing US-Switzerland Double Taxation Treaty with the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (SFTA), concerning approximately 4,450 accounts of US persons owned either directly or through an offshore company that are or had been maintained at UBS in Switzerland. Upon receipt of this request, the SFTA issued an order to UBS requesting that UBS provide to the SFTA the relevant information regarding account relationships that meet the specific criteria agreed between the U.S. and Swiss government under the standard of "tax fraud or the like" as set forth in the Swiss – US Double Taxation Treaty (DTT).

As stated by the SFTA, the accounts concerned are being evaluated to determine whether they fulfill the "tax fraud or the like" criteria set forth by the existing DTT. The specific criteria are set out in the annex to the Swiss – U.S. Government Agreement, published on November 17, 2009 by the SFTA.

UBS is now in the process of notifying clients that appear to be within the scope of the IRS Treaty Request and will provide to the SFTA on a rolling basis the requested account information, within the deadlines set out in the settlement agreement. Under the settlement agreement, UBS has to notify all affected clients and to provide all information to the SFTA no later than 270 days after it received the SFTA order on 1 September 2009. The SFTA will decide which of those accounts should be disclosed to the IRS, and such decisions will be subject to judicial appeal rights of affected account holders.

More information on the John Doe Settlement and Treaty Process

Voluntary disclosure

The IRS has a longstanding voluntary disclosure practice to encourage US taxpayers to bring themselves voluntarily into full compliance with the US tax laws. This practice remains in place and available to US taxpayers who may have US tax return filing or other disclosure obligations as a result of maintenance of an offshore account at UBS even though the IRS’s special penalty initiative for voluntary disclosure requests announced on March 23, 2009 has since expired on October 15, 2009. Participation in the IRS’s longstanding voluntary disclosure practice also generally eliminates the risk of criminal prosecution.

You can instruct us to provide your account information to the IRS

In connection with the “John Doe” summons, it is possible for you to give us your consent and instruct us to provide to the IRS on your behalf information relating to your account (“account information”) that is responsive to the summons.

Should you have any questions, please call our team of dedicated advisors in UBS at:
+41 44 237 56 10

You can also contact the Swiss Federal Tax Administration at:
+41 31 322 71 06.
Please ask for the Task Force IRS Treaty Request / AHUSA



  • On August 19, 2009 UBS AG announced the formal signing of a settlement agreement with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Justice regarding the John Doe summons issued on 21 July 2008. The summons had been the subject of a civil action in the United States District Court of the Southern District of Florida.

  • On 12 August 2009, the US government informed the US District Court of the Southern District of Florida that all parties had reached an agreement to resolve the John Doe summons matter and that they have initialed the final documentation. The hearing scheduled for 17 August will be removed from the court's calendar, and immediately after the formal signing has occurred, the parties will file the agreed upon stipulation of dismissal with the court.

  • On 31 July 2009, the US Government has informed the Court in the John Doe Summons matter that the parties had reached an agreement in principle on the major issues and expect to resolve the remaining issues in the coming week. A status conference among the parties has been scheduled for August 7, 2009.

  • On 12 July 2009, the governments of Switzerland and the United States agreed to attempt to negotiate a solution that would result in the resolution of the John Doe summons litigation. To permit the governments to achieve such a resolution, the US government and UBS, with the support of the Swiss government, requested a temporary “stay” (suspension) of the hearing that was set to begin on July 13 in a Miami federal court until August 3.

  • On 8 July 2009, UBS filed a brief with the US District Court in Miami responding to a memorandum filed by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on 30 June 2009.

  • On 30 April 2009, UBS filed its opposition to the enforcement of the John Doe Summons issued by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the case pending in the US District Court in Miami.

  • On 4 March 2009, Mark Branson, chief financial officer Wealth Management & Swiss Bank, represented UBS at a hearing of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) of the US Senate on the issue "Tax Haven Banks and US Tax Compliance - Obtaining the Names of US Clients with Swiss Accounts". The hearing examined the Deferred Prosecution Agreement, the status of the John Doe summons, the role of US-Swiss tax and legal assistance treaties and the effect of Swiss secrecy laws on US information requests. The hearing is an examination by a political institution and is not related to the civil legal action commenced by the US IRS, i.e. the request to enforce its John Doe summons.

  • On 27 February 2009 , the Swiss Federal Administrative Court declared as invalid the temporary restraining order that prevented the Swiss Financial Market Authority (FINMA) from transferring data of UBS bank clients to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in a provisional ruling.

  • On 24 February 2009, a lawyer acting on behalf of certain US clients filed criminal charges against UBS, Peter Kurer and the Swiss Financial Market Authority (FINMA) at the Swiss Federal Attorney's Office. UBS pointed out that it acted on 18 February 2009 based on an order by FINMA related to protective measures.

  • On 23 February 2009, a telephonic status conference was held before the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, during which UBS and the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agreed to an extended schedule as requested by UBS. This schedule foresees UBS's formal legal response by 30 April 2009 and a court hearing in July.

  • On 20 February 2009, UBS filed a memorandum with the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida responding to the IRS's request to enforce its "John Doe" summons. UBS believes it has substantial defenses against enforcement of the summons and intends to vigorously contest it in the civil proceeding.

  • On 19 February 2009, the US IRS, as expected, commenced a civil action in the Florida federal court seeking judicial enforcement of the civil "John Doe" summons served upon UBS in July 2008. The lawsuit asked the court to order UBS to disclose to the IRS the identities of 52,000 US clients. This information is protected from disclosure by Swiss financial privacy laws.

  • On 18 February 2009, UBS announced that it had entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and a Consent Order with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The settlement resolves the criminal and regulatory investigations by those authorities relating to UBS's US cross-border business. As part of the settlement, information was transferred to the DOJ regarding accounts of certain US clients who, based on evidence available to UBS, appear to have committed tax fraud or the like. This transfer of client information in cases of fraudulent activities took place pursuant to an order issued by FINMA. This disclosure does not constitute a breach of Swiss bank-client confidentiality, to which UBS remains firmly committed.

  • On 12 November 2008, UBS confirmed that Weil had been indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in the Florida US district court in connection with the ongoing investigation of UBS's US cross-border business by the DOJ. Weil was head of UBS Wealth Management International from 2002 to 2007. He relinquished his duties pending resolution of this matter.

  • On 18 August 2008, UBS confirmed that Martin Liechti resolved his status with the US government and returned to Switzerland.

  • On 17 July 2008, UBS representative Mark Branson, chief financial officer of Global WM&BB, testified at the US Senate Subcommittee hearing on the issue "Tax Haven Banks and US Tax Compliance."

  • On 17 July 2008, UBS announced that it would cease providing cross-border private banking services to US-domiciled clients through its non-US regulated units. This move accelerated the process initiated in November 2007 to re-align UBS's cross-border operations for US private clients.

  • On 17 July 2008, Swiss authorities received a formal demand for information from the US IRS under the US - Swiss Double Taxation Treaty, according to a spokesman from the Swiss Federal Department of Finance.

  • On 30 June 2008, the IRS announced that it had filed papers seeking an order from the Florida US district court authorizing the IRS to request client information from UBS. The IRS sought permission to allow it to serve on the bank what is known as a "John Doe" summons, which the IRS uses to obtain information about possible tax fraud by people whose identities are unknown.

  • On 19 June 2008, former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the IRS by assisting UBS clients in avoiding US reporting requirements on income in Swiss bank accounts. According to Birkenfeld's court statement, UBS employees assisted wealthy US clients in concealing their ownership of assets held offshore by creating sham entities and then filing IRS forms falsely, claiming that the entities were the owners of the accounts.

  • On 13 May 2008, US federal prosecutors indicted Bradley Birkenfeld, a former senior UBS banker, over his role in an illegal tax scheme that enabled a US client to avoid paying US taxes on assets maintained at UBS in Switzerland.

  • On 7 May 2008, UBS confirmed that a senior UBS employee, Martin Liechti, was detained by US authorities under a "material witness" warrant in connection with these investigations.

  • On 6 May 2008, UBS disclosed that US and Swiss authorities were investigating its Swiss-based cross-border banking services for US private clients.

  • In 2007, UBS decided to realign its business model for US private clients to increase its business focus on the firm's US-regulated units (UBS Wealth Management USA; UBS Swiss Financial Advisers AG; and UBS International Hong Kong Limited). A decision was made to discontinue relationships with clients who possessed assets below CHF 50,000.

  • On 1 January 2001, UBS entered into a Qualified Intermediary (QI) agreement with the IRS. The QI regime provides a comprehensive framework for US information reporting and tax withholding by a non-US financial institution that acts as a QI with respect to customer accounts held by non-US persons and by US persons. The QI agreement is designed to help ensure that non-US persons are subject to proper US withholding tax rates and that US persons are properly paying US tax, in each case, with respect to US securities held in an account with the QI.

The IRS has a longstanding voluntary disclosure practice to encourage US taxpayers to bring themselves voluntarily into full compliance with the US tax laws. This practice remains in place and available to US taxpayers who may have US tax return filing or other disclosure obligations as a result of maintenance of an offshore account at UBS even though the IRS’s special penalty initiative for voluntary disclosure requests announced on March 23, 2009 has since expired on October 15, 2009. Participation in the IRS’s longstanding voluntary disclosure practice also generally eliminates the risk of criminal prosecution.

As a general matter, in order to take advantage of the IRS’s voluntary disclosure practice, a US taxpayer must make a voluntary disclosure to the IRS before the IRS identifies the taxpayer’s potential non-compliance with US tax laws based on the IRS Treaty Request, or through a civil examination, criminal investigation or other means. As explained by the IRS in subsequent guidance, there is still an opportunity for taxpayers to make a voluntary disclosure, but that opportunity will be lost upon the provision of the account data to the IRS in response to the Treaty Request. Accordingly, if clients are considering making a voluntary disclosure, it is important to do so now. The IRS has stated that a voluntary disclosure will be considered timely as soon as a taxpayer identifies himself and expresses an intent to disclose, even if the taxpayer has not yet completed amended or delinquent returns. For details and further information on the IRS’s voluntary disclosure practice, please visit the IRS website at: http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=206012,00.html?portlet=7.

Upon request, UBS will provide clients with account information that they may need in order to make a voluntary disclosure free of charge. Please indicate that you require the documents for the voluntary disclosure. However, as stated above, these documents are not needed to initiate the voluntary disclosure process.

You can instruct us to provide your account information to the IRS

In connection with the “John Doe” summons, it is possible for you to give us your consent and instruct us directly to provide to the IRS on your behalf information relating to your account (“account information”) that is directly responsive to the summons. If you would like to give this consent and instruct us accordingly, please sign the Form of Instruction Letter and return it to us. We do not express any views as to whether provision of such account information would be treated by the IRS as a voluntary disclosure and recommend that you consult with a qualified U.S. tax lawyer or other qualified U.S. tax advisor should you have questions. For information on how to fill out the Form of Instruction Letter, please refer to the Form of Instruction Letter Guidelines.

Information for US-Taxpayers without valid address
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has submitted a request for administrative
assistance to the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (the “SFTA”), pursuant to Article
26 of the 1996 Convention Between the United States of America and the Swiss
Confederation for the Avoidance of Double Taxation with Respect to Taxes on
Income (the “1996 Convention”). The IRS is seeking information with regard to
accounts of certain U.S. persons owned either directly or through an offshore
company that are or have been maintained with UBS AG (“UBS”) in Switzerland
("IRS Treaty Request"). The SFTA has issued an order directing UBS to submit
responsive account information to the SFTA.
UBS provides notice to the accountholders if their account with UBS appears to be
within the scope of this IRS Request for information exchange. However for a number
of accountholders UBS has no valid address where to send the notice of the IRS
Treaty Request. For a number of deceased accountholders UBS has no address of
executors and/or heirs. The SFTA therefore by this public announcement informs
those accountholders and executors/heirs that information relating to the UBS
accounts in question might be provided to the IRS pursuant to the 1996 Convention.
In order to preserve their rights in this process the accountholders in question are
asked to take action as follows:
- Appoint an agent in Switzerland to receive notifications in Switzerland
concerning this matter and inform the SFTA of the person appointed, or
- call the UBS for additional information at +41 44 237 56 10 or consult the UBS
website at www.ubs.com or
- call the SFTA helpline for additional information at +41 31 325 05 81
(reference AHUSA).
- For additional information visit
www.bj.admin.ch/bj/de/home/themen/wirtschaft/fallubs.html or
www.estv.admin.ch/aktuell/index.html
In due course of the procedure for administrative assistance the SFTA will render
decisions concerning accounts with no valid address known and forward them to the
fallback agent (Bill Isenegger Ackermann AG, Attorneys at Law, Zurich, Switzerland,
+41 44 386 88 88). Therefore accountholders who do not contact an agent of their
own nor ask for additional information risk to lose the opportunity to appeal the
decisions of the SFTA.

UBS: Treaty Process On Track

Annex to Agreement Now Published in Switzerland's Official Compilation of Legislation

Press Release, FDJP, 17.11.2009

Bern. The official assistance that Switzerland is providing to the US tax authorities in connection with the UBS affair is on track. The tax treaty between Switzerland and the USA provides the corresponding legal framework. Issues relating to implementation, the associated deadlines and the number of cases involved (4,450) were laid down in the agreement of 19 August 2009 between the Swiss Confederation and the USA. The criteria for granting assistance under the treaty request were published today, 90 days after the agreement was signed, in Switzerland's official compilation of legislation.

According to the criteria set out in the annex to the agreement, the US treaty request covers the following persons where there is a reasonable suspicion of "tax fraud or the like":

  • US-domiciled clients of UBS who directly held and beneficially owned undisclosed (non-W-9) custody accounts and banking deposit accounts in excess of CHF 1 million at any point in time between 2001 and 2008;
  • US persons (irrespective of their domicile) who beneficially owned offshore company accounts established or maintained between 2001 and 2008.

Further investigations are ongoing in both categories to establish whether "tax fraud or the like" has been committed under the terms of the tax treaty. The term "tax fraud or the like" is defined in greater detail in the agreement on the UBS affair. On the one hand, it also extends to fraudulent conduct (e.g. constructing a scheme of lies or submitting incorrect or false documents) that might result in the concealment of assets and the underreporting of income. Where such conduct is proven, the qualifying threshold under the US treaty request is lowered to include holders of accounts containing assets of CHF 250,000 or more. In addition to cases of conventional "fraudulent conduct", Switzerland may also be asked to obtain information on continued and serious tax offenses. According to the annex, this refers to accounts that generated revenues of more than CHF 100,000 on average per year for a period of at least three years, where such revenues were not reported to the IRS.

Efficient Handling – Rights Safeguarded
Under the terms of the agreement, the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (SFTA) must evaluate the 4,450 UBS accounts within 360 days of the treaty request being received (31 August 2009). An efficient system was set up to handle the treaty process. It is based on the electronic processing of the client dossiers filtered by UBS. Subject to the usual security precautions, these dossiers are sent to the SFTA, where audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) reviews the facts in accordance with SFTA instructions. The legal qualification lies with the SFTA. It will allow the individuals concerned to inspect their dossiers upon request, and will also give them the opportunity to state their case. The rights of these individuals are therefore safeguarded in full. Finally, the SFTA will decide whether or not assistance will be provided, and will issue a final decision. Upon receipt of this decision, the individuals concerned have 30 days in which to lodge an appeal with the Federal Administrative Court, which will issue a final decision. The Federal Government estimates the costs of the UBS affair at around 40 million Swiss francs.

Task Force Fully Operational
The SFTA set up a dedicated task force to speed up the treaty request process. Hans-Jörg Müllhaupt, who was appointed by the Federal Council as overall project manager in August 2009, is in charge of proceedings. Following set-up work in September, the task force became fully operational in October 2009. The first 500 client dossiers prepared by UBS were received by the end of that month, i.e. within the agreed 60-day period that began when the treaty request was received by the SFTA.

Around 40 people – ten of them from PWC – are currently employed on the project. Where necessary, additional lawyers may be brought in at short notice from other departments, particularly those of the Federal Office of Justice (FOJ).
Final decisions are being issued on an ongoing basis, meaning that the first can be sent out as early as today. Under the terms of the agreement, the SFTA has 90 days from receipt of the treaty request, i.e. until the end of November 2009, to issue the first 500 decisions. The remaining dossiers must be processed by the SFTA within 360 days of receiving the treaty request.

For more information
Agreement and annex:
Folco Galli, Federal Office of Justice, T +41 31 322 77 88, E-Mail
Implementation of agreement:
Beat Furrer, Swiss Federal Tax Administration, T +41 31 324 91 29, E-Mail

UBS: Treaty Process On Track

Annex to Agreement Now Published in Switzerland's Official Compilation of Legislation

Press Release, FDJP, 17.11.2009

Bern. The official assistance that Switzerland is providing to the US tax authorities in connection with the UBS affair is on track. The tax treaty between Switzerland and the USA provides the corresponding legal framework. Issues relating to implementation, the associated deadlines and the number of cases involved (4,450) were laid down in the agreement of 19 August 2009 between the Swiss Confederation and the USA. The criteria for granting assistance under the treaty request were published today, 90 days after the agreement was signed, in Switzerland's official compilation of legislation.

According to the criteria set out in the annex to the agreement, the US treaty request covers the following persons where there is a reasonable suspicion of "tax fraud or the like":

  • US-domiciled clients of UBS who directly held and beneficially owned undisclosed (non-W-9) custody accounts and banking deposit accounts in excess of CHF 1 million at any point in time between 2001 and 2008;
  • US persons (irrespective of their domicile) who beneficially owned offshore company accounts established or maintained between 2001 and 2008.

Further investigations are ongoing in both categories to establish whether "tax fraud or the like" has been committed under the terms of the tax treaty. The term "tax fraud or the like" is defined in greater detail in the agreement on the UBS affair. On the one hand, it also extends to fraudulent conduct (e.g. constructing a scheme of lies or submitting incorrect or false documents) that might result in the concealment of assets and the underreporting of income. Where such conduct is proven, the qualifying threshold under the US treaty request is lowered to include holders of accounts containing assets of CHF 250,000 or more. In addition to cases of conventional "fraudulent conduct", Switzerland may also be asked to obtain information on continued and serious tax offenses. According to the annex, this refers to accounts that generated revenues of more than CHF 100,000 on average per year for a period of at least three years, where such revenues were not reported to the IRS.

Efficient Handling – Rights Safeguarded
Under the terms of the agreement, the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (SFTA) must evaluate the 4,450 UBS accounts within 360 days of the treaty request being received (31 August 2009). An efficient system was set up to handle the treaty process. It is based on the electronic processing of the client dossiers filtered by UBS. Subject to the usual security precautions, these dossiers are sent to the SFTA, where audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) reviews the facts in accordance with SFTA instructions. The legal qualification lies with the SFTA. It will allow the individuals concerned to inspect their dossiers upon request, and will also give them the opportunity to state their case. The rights of these individuals are therefore safeguarded in full. Finally, the SFTA will decide whether or not assistance will be provided, and will issue a final decision. Upon receipt of this decision, the individuals concerned have 30 days in which to lodge an appeal with the Federal Administrative Court, which will issue a final decision. The Federal Government estimates the costs of the UBS affair at around 40 million Swiss francs.

Task Force Fully Operational
The SFTA set up a dedicated task force to speed up the treaty request process. Hans-Jörg Müllhaupt, who was appointed by the Federal Council as overall project manager in August 2009, is in charge of proceedings. Following set-up work in September, the task force became fully operational in October 2009. The first 500 client dossiers prepared by UBS were received by the end of that month, i.e. within the agreed 60-day period that began when the treaty request was received by the SFTA.

Around 40 people – ten of them from PWC – are currently employed on the project. Where necessary, additional lawyers may be brought in at short notice from other departments, particularly those of the Federal Office of Justice (FOJ).
Final decisions are being issued on an ongoing basis, meaning that the first can be sent out as early as today. Under the terms of the agreement, the SFTA has 90 days from receipt of the treaty request, i.e. until the end of November 2009, to issue the first 500 decisions. The remaining dossiers must be processed by the SFTA within 360 days of receiving the treaty request.

For more information
Agreement and annex:
Folco Galli, Federal Office of Justice, T +41 31 322 77 88, E-Mail
Implementation of agreement:
Beat Furrer, Swiss Federal Tax Administration, T +41 31 324 91 29, E-Mail

Any U.S. person who has a financial interest in or signature authority, or other authority over any financial account(s) in any country outside the United States with an aggregate value exceeding $10,000 at any time during the calendar year must file with the U.S. Department of the Treasury a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts ("FBAR") on Form TD 90-22.1.

Additional information is available on the IRS website at www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=148845,00.html.



How many hotels, local artists, and local economy will be ruined if the rich don't flock to art basel miami beach after the UBS swiss bank scam was revealed?

Local Hotels in Miami Beach

The W South Beach
Tonight: Art dealer Larry Gagosian hosts a swanky private dinner at Mr. Chow.
Thursday: W owner Aby Rosen hosts art-world pals Tico Mugrabi, and Peter Brant at a dinner at Solea. Later in the evening, Vito Schnabel, Alex Dellal, and Stavros Niarchos host a Basel after-party at The Wall.
Friday: We Rock the Arts throws a poolside bash with performances by Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols) and Jesse Yusef Murphy (Brazilian Girls).

The Standard
Tonight: Naomi Campbell is said to be attending the cocktail party for the Francois Nars 15X15 book (celebrity portraits by Nars to celebrate the company’s 15th anniversary).

The Shore Club
Tonight: Cool curator collaborative Primary Flight throw their opening reception party here from 10–2 a.m.
Saturday: The posh Russians from SNOB Magazine throw what is bound to be a lavish bash.

The Mondrian South Beach
Today: Interview Magazine (who are camped out here all week) host a Ping Pong party with Fred Perry & SPiN New York.

The Delano
Thursday: Chicago dance music artist and rapper Kid Sister and Miami DJ Induce perform poolside from 9 p.m. Free with RSVP.

The Setai
Thursday: An invitation-only party hosted by Elite Traveler magazine kicks off at 9 p.m.


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