by Will Hall
With all the 'false widow' spiders in the news at the
moment, I turned my attention to a different kind of widow.
Who is the White Widow?
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| Samantha Lewthwaite |
The 'White Widow' is Samantha Lewthwaite, who was born in
Northern Ireland. The
29-year-old British Muslim convert is the world's most wanted woman after being
accused of allegedly ordering the killings of two radical Muslim clerics, two
Protestant preachers, and three others with links to terror-group al-Shabaab.
She has been dubbed ‘the White Widow’ partly because, during the Nairobi mall attack, witnesses reported seeing a white woman in the mix of the al-Shabaab terrorists. The reason she has ‘widow’ as part of her name is because she’s the widow of 7/7 suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay. She is currently a fugitive from justice in Kenya, where she is wanted on charges of possession of explosives and conspiracy to commit a felony and is the subject of an Interpol Red Notice requesting her arrest (a red notice is basically an international arrest warrant).
She has been dubbed ‘the White Widow’ partly because, during the Nairobi mall attack, witnesses reported seeing a white woman in the mix of the al-Shabaab terrorists. The reason she has ‘widow’ as part of her name is because she’s the widow of 7/7 suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay. She is currently a fugitive from justice in Kenya, where she is wanted on charges of possession of explosives and conspiracy to commit a felony and is the subject of an Interpol Red Notice requesting her arrest (a red notice is basically an international arrest warrant).
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| The Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi where al-shabaab gunmen killed over 60 people |
I never knew terroistis could be girls
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