The Ritz hotel appears among several high-profile London sites on a list of potential terrorist targets found with a dead al-Qaeda terrorist.
The list was found in possession of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the terrorist organization’s commander in East Africa, after he was shot dead last week in Somalia. Mohammad is believed to have masterminded the 2002 bombing of Mombasa’s Paradise Hotel, among other attacks.
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed also was the alleged mastermind of attacks on two US embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has called the 38-year-old’s death a “significant blow to al-Qaida, its extremist allies, and its operations in East Africa.”
UK intelligence sources do not believe an attack on the iconic Ritz was imminent.
