British citizens among the attackers?
Indian television station NDTV reported earlier that, according to the chief minister of Mumbai, at least two of the militants arrested are British citizens. “[I]t is too early to say whether or not any of them are British,” British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told Sky News in response to the story. It’s an interesting potential ...
Indian television station NDTV reported earlier that, according to the chief minister of Mumbai, at least two of the militants arrested are British citizens.
Indian television station NDTV reported earlier that, according to the chief minister of Mumbai, at least two of the militants arrested are British citizens.
“[I]t is too early to say whether or not any of them are British,” British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told Sky News in response to the story.
It’s an interesting potential wrinkle, but the usual caveats apply. Many of the reports coming out of the Indian press have proven unfounded or contradictory.
UPDATE: BBC News reports that there is “no evidence” as of yet that any of the attackers were British.
… perhaps stories like this explain the rumors?
Actor Joey Jeetun, 31, from London, told how he survived the terrorist assault on the Leopold cafe, next to the Taj Mahal hotel, because he was covered in other victims’ blood and the gunmen thought he was dead.
Mr Jeetun said: “I just curled myself in the smallest ball I could and closed my eyes. After about five minutes it stopped and I opened my eyes. There were dead people next to me who had been shot in the head.”
Mr Jeetun has an Asian appearance and once played the role of July 7 suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer in a Channel 5 documentary 7/7: Attack on London.
After police arrived at the cafe an officer pointed a gun at his head and he was detained as a possible terrorist suspect.
He said: “I was held in a police cell for 13 hours with a group of Arab looking men. They thought I was a suspect even though I said I was a British tourist.”
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