Thursday, September 26, 2013

The White Widow On The Run!

Authorities seek the arrest of British born woman who has ties to terrorist groups.

Interpol, Kenyan authorities, the U.S. Justice Department and New Scotland Yard want this woman.

Samantha Lewthwaite, the UK born woman who is White has alleged ties to Somali-based extremists al-Shabaab. The group is linked to the mass shooting at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya.

Law enforcement figured that she has the knowledge of "westernized culture" and the know how to plot an attack on "soft targets".

Samantha Louise Lewthwaite, (born December 5 1983), also known as Sherafiyah Lewthwaite or the White Widow, is the widow of 7/7 suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay and one of the world's most wanted terrorism suspects.

Her in 2004.
She was a westernized girl from Northern Ireland who had married Germaine Lindsay the Boston transit bomber who launch multiple attacks on the buses and subways on July 7, 2005.

Then Prime Minister Gordon Brown and then President George W. Bush express outrage and warned that extremism in the United Kingdom and the United States will merit swift justice.

She is an alleged member of the Somali radical Islamic militant group, Al-Shabaab.

She has been accused of orchestrating grenade attacks at non-Muslim places of worship, and is believed to have been behind an attack on those watching football in a bar in Mombasa during Euro 2012.

In September 2013, the Kenyan government said there was a strong possibility of her being involved in the Nairobi mall attack, although other reports cast doubt on this.

Lewthwaite was named as a possible suspect involved in a September 2013 attack claimed by Al-Shabaab on a Nairobi mall.

As of September 24, there was media speculation that she was one of the dead.

These reports were viewed with caution by UK government officials, and there was no confirmation of Lewthwaite's involvement as an attacker, organiser or fundraiser.

Al-Shabaab issued a statement on September 24 saying no women were involved in the attack.

Early reports suggested that witnesses had claimed a white woman shouted orders in Arabic; however Kim Sengupta of The Independent questioned why she would be speaking Arabic to Somalians, some of whom spoke English.

There were reports that American born teens and young adults were orchestrating an attack on the mall. '
Germaine Lindsay and Samantha Lewthwaite with child. Before Lindsay went on his suicide attack, Lewthwaite was pregnant with his second child. She took up the cause for al-Shabaab. Her whereabouts are somewhere in Northern Africa. Interpol wants this woman. The U.S. Justice Department seeks information on this woman because of involvement in failed attacks on the United States by American born cleric turned terrorist. Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in 2011. 
Kenyan authorities have singled out Muslim teens who lived in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Some have left their families to join the fight in Somalia.

This was a trial run for much bigger attacks on malls in the Western nations (i.e. United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, France, Germany, and Canada). The extremists are hoping to make moves on "soft targets".

Stadiums, casinos, malls, annual events, schools, hospitals, transit stations and museums are soft targets for terrorism.

CNN reports that she condemned the attacks but then vanished. Now, Kenyan authorities say, she is the infamous "White Widow," alleged to be a supporter and financier of people linked to the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab.
FBI photos of the Samantha Lewthwaite.
Reports that a white woman was among the terrorists who stormed Nairobi, Kenya's, upscale Westgate Shopping Mall on Saturday -- an operation for which Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility -- have prompted a slew of media speculation that she might have been involved.

After the London attacks, she denied having knowledge of the plans. Later, Kenyan authorities said, she emerged in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa and became part of a terror cell linked to Al-Shabaab.

In December 2011, Kenyan authorities raided three homes in Mombasa, including one allegedly used by Lewthwaite, and arrested some people on suspicion of planning to destroy a bridge, a ferry and hotels frequented by Western tourists.

At Lewthwaite's residence, investigators found the kind of bomb-making materials that were used in the London attacks, Kenyan counterterror police said. But Lewthwaite was not found.

A security guard who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity in 2012 said he saw a white woman leave the residence hours before the raid. Authorities have yet to catch up to her.

Kenyan authorities also suspect Lewthwaite of hatching a plot to break fellow Briton Jermaine Grant out of jail after he was arrested in connection with the alleged Mombasa plot.

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