| Swiss authorities have launched and investigations over possible links between two foreign residents in Switzerland and the bombing of the British consulate and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul on November 20. Two Swiss-resident foreign citizens were being investigated according to a spokesman for the Federal Prosecutors’ Office. However, the spokesman did not give further details of the subjects of the investigation. The spokesman also refused to comment on a report in the weekly Swiss newspaper Sonntags Zeitung, claiming authorities were looking into the activities of two Geneva companies and an Islamic organisation in Biel, in northern Switzerland. The paper said there were suggestions there had been contact with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected third in command of Al Qaeda. Mohammed was arrested in Pakistan last March. |