British tourist Morwenna Grills, who sought shelter in a shop when the Taj Mahal hotel came under attack, said the atmosphere in the city was "very eerie".

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Officials believe an argument that began at a hotel valet area prompted the attack but were still investigating what, if any, relationship the two groups had prior to the altercation.

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Mr Bryant angrily denied press reports that British authorities had any forewarning of the attack in a Dubai hotel.

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Afghan police officials, however, said there were no indications that foreigners or high-ranking Afghan officials were at the hotel when the militants staged the attack.

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Hours before that final in 1998 Ronaldo had what his teammates described at the time as a convulsive attack at the team hotel and was rushed to hospital.

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Last September, for example, American helicopters fired on a convoy of trucks in Somalia and killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who was blamed for an attack on an Israeli hotel in Kenya in 2002, and for the embassy bombs of 1998.

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Higazy was in his hotel room at the time of the attack, according to his lawyer.

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Odeh's FBI interview and hotel records indicate that he stayed at Nairobi's Hilltop Hotel, the same hotel prosecutors say the other alleged conspirators used, in the days before the attack.

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