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Documents Found on Body of Al-Qaeda's African Leader Detail Plans for Kidnapping, Attacks on London Jews
(Toronto Star-Canada) Michelle Shephard - Documents that detail plots for a kidnapping and attacks on Eton College, Jewish neighborhoods, and the Ritz and Dorchester hotels in London were uncovered last year when senior al-Qaeda leader Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, 38, was shot dead by Somali forces. "Our objectives are to strike London with low-cost operations that would cause a heavy blow amongst the hierarchy and Jewish communities," begins the document labeled "International Operations." The next two pages show specific plans for the hotels, for Eton school on opening day, and for London's Stamford Hill and Golders Green neighborhoods, which are populated with "tens of thousands of Jews crammed in a small area." Fazul, a close ally of Osama bin Laden, was indicted in the U.S. for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya that killed 224.