British targets found near body of al-Qaeda leader
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The Ritz Hotel in London and the elite private school Eton were among a handful of possible British terror targets that a senior al-Qaeda leader was considering before he was killed in Somalia last week, a British security official said Thursday.
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of attacks on two US embassies in Africa that killed 224 people, was killed when he failed to stop at a routine checkpoint outside of Mogadishu, Somalia's capital. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has called the 38-year-old's death a "significant blow to al-Qaeda, its extremist allies, and its operations in East Africa." (AP)
