legalistic in London

From World (in April)...

A foreign national fighting in the British army, Rogers Jean-Baptiste of St. Lucia, applied for citizenship in the U.K. on Jan. 17, 2008. But...

he forgot one thing: British naturalization law requires a person to have been in the U.K. five years earlier on the same day. On Jan. 17, 2003, Jean-Baptiste was deployed at a British army base in Germany. The Home Office in London says that doesn't count...

RJB's thoughts?

"It's a waste of my time and of everything I fought for," he told the BBC. "It's a betrayal."