The White Widow.

 "THE WHITE WIDOW"

MARCH 2012 - "The widow of one of the July 7 bombers has been using her children as cover for her alleged terrorist activities, according to police"

DEC 2012 - SAS join search for Samantha Lewthwaite  (AKA: 7/7 White Widow)

Security services from Britain, the US and Kenya know her as the White Widow, one of the most feared female terrorists in history. On the run in volatile eastern Kenya, with three – or maybe four – young children, the 28-year-old daughter of an English soldier is wanted dead or alive.

No one knows the true scope of her ­influence in the global jihad movement, but one fact is certain: officials seriously fear Lewthwaite, widow of 7/7 bomber Jermaine Lindsay, is plotting an outrage with high-ranking al-Qaeda radicals. For the fanatical followers of al-Qaeda, Lewthwaite is a heroine.

They call her the White Widow because of her European background and because Lindsay blew himself up in the attacks in London in 2005 in which 52 people were killed.

She is expert at disguise, switching from designer fashions to less revealing Islamic dress while under surveillance in the Muslim quarter of the port city Mombasa.

Described as the paymaster for a terror cell that has already hit tourist hotels this year, she is also accused of murder. Some witnesses say she fired a grenade launcher into a bar crowded with football fans watching the Euro 2012 match between England and Italy on June 24. Three people died, including a three-year-old boy.

Isack Simiyu, 23, who was outside the Jericho Bar, said the attack was led by a fair-skinned woman wearing a black headscarf. He saw a black Toyota Rav4 and a white Toyota estate pull up. “A man in a mask and a woman in a buibui [black shawl] came out,” he said.

“She lifted something like a launcher to her shoulders and started firing.
She was a white lady. When she got down from the car I could see her face clearly.”

Isack picked out a picture of Lewthwaite when shown photos of four white women.

She is the most feared female terrorist since Ulrike Meinhof, founder of the Red Army Faction which carried out bombings across West Germany in the 1970s.

A Western intelligence source said agents are studying information provided by arrested Briton Jermaine Grant who was sharing a rented property with Lewthwaite in Mombasa.

“Lewthwaite has some of the toughest and most resourceful members of the special forces and intelligence community looking for her. What is most amazing is that she is on the run with her children while still evading detection. The fact that no one has reported this white woman moving about in remote areas proves how well protected she is.”

Lewthwaite has every reason to avoid capture.

Jacob Ondari of Kenya’s ­directorate of public prosecutions warns: “Lewthwaite is highly dangerous.

"She is not just a small cog in this terrorist machine – she has links to the top.

“I will be calling for the death penalty when she is finally caught.”

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See Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Lewthwaite

March 2012 - http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/National/Terrorism/article991373.ece

July 2012 - http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/the-white-widow-samantha-lewthwaite-profile-1175021

DEC 2012 - http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hunt-77-white-widow-sas-1479771

2012 - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2170301/Samantha-Lewthwaite-Chilling-terror-notes-7-7-bombers-widow-began-life-Home-Counties-schoolgirl.html

2013 - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418542/Omar-Hammami-dead-American-born-rapping-jihadi-killed-ambush-Somalia.html

2013 - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2419556/Habib-Ghani-ally-White-Widow-Samantha-Lewthwaite-shot-dead-rival-Islamic-militants-Somalia.html

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