Mumbai

[ailbhe]

I also heard an interview with a woman who was waiting for her brother outside the hotel.

"He is in there, I don't know where he is, I am just waiting."

The BBC interviewer said "And is he - does he work at the hotel?"

"No," she said, somewhat flatly. "He is a [management or higher position, I forget]."

The interviewer had the gall to sound surprised.

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[webhill.livejournal.com]

I would define a "British-born Pakistani" as a citizen of Pakistan who was born in Britain. Being born somewhere does not define current citizenship! Here in the USA I read a lot of stories about "Mexican-born Americans" who are children, born in Mexico, who come here with their parents as infants or very young children, and grow up here,and become citizens of this country. They are Mexican-born Americans, not Mexicans.

[the0lady.livejournal.com]

The tricky point is not really about what passport these alleged attackers with British connections (of hichever stamp) hold, as Ailbhe recognised. i'm not trying to start any kind of "what defines your identity" debate here (anyway, as an ex-Soviet Israeli Jew born in Azerbaijan and residing in Britain, I'm the first to admit it's cumpleecatid).

The real point is that the rumours - and they are rumours only, denied so far by both UK and India's PMs - that some of the attackers may or may not have *any* kind of connection to the UK were still very tenuous at the time the Guardian piece was written, and they should have known better than to make an unconditional headline out of them.

Instead, the most liberal and left leaning newspaper in the country carefully chose language that disowned these alleged people of whatever nationality, just in case.

Nice.