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Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/16/hotels-warned-mumbai-style-terror-threat/
Al-Qaeda Planned "Mumbai-Style" Attack on London Hotel
(Fox News) Mike Levine and Jennifer Griffin - Intelligence recently obtained in Somalia shows al-Qaeda was planning to launch a "Mumbai-style" attack on an upscale hotel in London, England. The intelligence came from Mogadishu where Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the al-Qaeda operative who masterminded the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa, was killed Saturday. Al-Qaeda was working on what one senior U.S. intelligence official described as an "aspirational" - but possibly operational - plot to target the Ritz Carlton. As part of the plot, operatives would stay in strategically chosen rooms on the first floor of the hotel, and then they would set their rooms ablaze in hopes of trapping guests on the floors above.