Special forces prepare for an assault on a luxury hotel where coup plotters took over the building in Makati City, Manila November 29, 2007. The latest coup bid in the Philippines ended on Thursday in a military assault on a luxury hotel and a fusillade of shots but no casualties. Elite military and police units stormed the Manila Peninsula Hotel, a plush icon in the sprawling city of 12 million people, and arrested rebel soldiers, a senator and a handful of priests who had taken over the building and called on the army to mutiny. [Agencies]