[maica]

From their website:-
Headquartered in London, and with over 9,500 offices in 79 countries and territories, the HSBC Group is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations.

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HSBC may be headquartered in London but they are a Chinese owned bank. I have been waiting with queasy fear to see where the Chinese became involved in the war on terrorism.

[bernie_g]

For what it's worth, the UK news sources are currently reporting this tragedy as a direct attack on UK interests, presumably timed to coincide with Mr Bush's visit here.

The targets being the British Consulate and a more-or-less British bank (The old Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank merged with the UK bank Midland a few years back to form HSBC.)

[scotsman1]

please see my reply to bernie g as regards the history of the hong kong bank.