Dear mr. Vallélian,
(I will speak as a forum administrator)
Although I don't speak French (infact i need lots of time for english
also) and you didn't give me the link, I managed to on-line translate
your article from yesterday and am quite surprised by the statements
presented in it.
http://tinyurl.com/83g9d7
First of all let me just say that ALL the info gathered in the forums
of our site is dedicated to, once biggest European underground airbase,
Zeljava... destroyed in 1992 by Yugoslay Federal Army located on
Croatian-Bosnian border upon JNA's retreat from the airbase.
Site and forum also cover foreign similar military installations, but
all the information presented is gathered from many different public
sources exclusively found on the internet.
Additionally, most of the info regarding Swiss military installations is taken from
Swiss army's publicly available publications found on the internet and
available for free d-load.
Swiss side (since they already presented such attitude for this matter)
can use this materials to reveal how they handle their sensitive
information. So to mention our site in negative context is to say at
least not fair.
As I said all that was collected from publicly available sources by our
forum members who don't find it hard to browse internet for hours to
find those information (they are passionate fans of those thematics,
being their major hobby). So how are we responsible to gather, read and
understand all those documents(?)
Schematic related material is
abstract view on
certain themes based on similar facilities around the world, also
publicly available even for visitors (e.g. Save airport in Sweden).
Forum is open for everyone and it's members are the fans of the IT,
aviation, aviation technology and abandoned places (like decommissioned
military sites)... so we write mostly about those.
The intent of our site is by no means to reveal military secrets of any
side, including Swiss, or cause any harm to any of the mentioned
parties. In fact, none of us have ever been to Switzerland.
Therefore as a token of good will from our side we have taken off-line
everything that covers installations similar to Zeljava.
If Swiss Defense Dept really thinks this info should not be made public, we will gladly permanently
DELETE everything they think is unfit for public display. After all, it's
Zeljava we tend to find out all about and not Swiss or any other
country's installations.
Again, let me say that all of this info is
made publicly available on the internet from different sources
including official.
Just check enormous amount of the Swiss AirForce aviation photos and
videos provided by official or non-official sources (forums, websites
etc.) from your and other countries.
If it is true that Swiss DD wants this info taken down, all they have to do is contact us.
Since you found me (and I respond to you quickly), that obviously isn't impossible, so I expect them to do the same.
Our forum members find this situation at least not fair and don't
understand why the name of the forum and the site is presented in such
a bad manner and especially don't like the part connecting us or our
country to any terrorist activity. I'm pretty sure you can use the
internet and inform yourself about the recent history of our country
and what it fought and finally won the war for.
Best regards,...
(LYBI-forum team... admin/moderators/members)
P.S.
The part of your article about terrorists I didn't completely
understand from the on-line translation, but I don't like it because of
all before-mentioned reasons.
Why didn't you point your finger at Swiss Army's officials,
publications and Swiss military forums for revealing all this info in
the first place??? Instead you find us to blame for their mistakes?
Why does Swiss Air-Force let people take pictures on classified military installations?
Same thing goes for radar stations and other installations in Alps.
P.S.S.
I personally wasn't even aware of Swiss military's complexity and
superior equippment used until I had a glimpse at all this.
To most people (me included) Swiss public image is connected around the world of finance, watches and chocolate.
Now it's the same, but in this order
military, finance, watches and chocolate.
P.S.S.S.
Here is a small part of the web links where you can find endless materials on Swiss Army and thank for to all those wonderful people who made these beautiful photos which is used on our site: