Terrorist Plotted Ritz Atrocity

The Sun reports:

ETON College and The Ritz hotel are on a hit-list of bomb targets drawn up by a ruthless al-Qaeda commander, The Sun can reveal.

The plot details were found on the body of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the terror group's chief in East Africa, after he was shot dead.

Security chiefs held a top-level summit with Government ministers and anti-terror police yesterday after the discovery of the al-Qaeda plot.

US security services have also been informed, and are understood to have put out a "sector warning" to alert major hotel chains to the threat.

Both British and US security chiefs ordered further investigations.

Bloodthirsty Mohammed, 38 - the mastermind behind two US embassy blasts in Kenya and Tanzania which killed 224 people 12 years ago - was shot in war-torn Somalia's capital Mogadishu.

His list underlines the continued threat from al-Qaeda despite Osama Bin Laden's death.

An intelligence source confirmed: "Eton and the Ritz were on a list of what are assumed to be potential UK targets.

"There was no indication that an attack was looming - but given his track record, questions have to be asked about why such a list should be in his possession. I understand that the school has been spoken to."