According to a report on CNN an hour or so ago several of these terrorists had British passports and may have been part of the advance team, as having that type of passport would have allowed them to check into the hotels and not be questioned as well as allowing them to get jobs at the hotels in question; the reporter who reported this was in Britain and said if this bears out it will have huge ramifications because it may mean the planning for this came from a British cell.
The Pakistani/British pipeline is well known with extremists able to move back and forth between the countries.
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