British international terrorist, ‘White Widow,’ real name Samantha
Lewthwaite, may be the mastermind behind the horrific Monday attack in
Nyanya, near Abuja.
While nobody has officially claimed
responsibility 48 hours after the blast, UK security sources, according
to reports, fear the bombing may have been a revenge attack for the
death of Lewthwaite’s mentor— al-Shabaab terror chief Makaburi, A. K. A.
Sheikh Abubakar Shariff Ahmed— two weeks ago.
A
senior security source told UK’s Daily Star that agents across Africa
were on high alert after the assassination of Makaburi, reportedly by
the UK and US funded Kenyan Anti-Terror Police Unit, ATPU, 14 days ago,
adding that Lewthwaite and her associates “wanted revenge.”
The
source said: “Makaburi was always believed to be at the very top of the
hierarchy of terror organisation, al-Shabaab. Intelligence suggests he
introduced Samantha Lewthwaite to many influential figures within the
al-Shabaab network.
“He guided her on her path to Jihad. His murder was seen as yet another act of war.”
Lewthwaite,
30, is believed to be in Nigeria, Kenya or Somalia, where Islamist
terror networks are closely linked, making it far easier for her to
evade detection than in Europe, the paper said.
The daughter of a
British Army soldier, she is already on Interpol’s most wanted list in
connection with seven murders and the siege of the Westgate shopping
mall in Nairobi, Kenya, in September last year which left 67 dead and
nearly 200 injured.
The paper said: “The world’s most wanted woman
was reportedly caught at a checkpoint in Nigeria just six months ago,
but managed to bribe her way to freedom.
“It is thought she
commands enormous loyalty and power as a white convert female jihadist,
having proved her worth in previous attacks.”
Pedigree
As both a mother and widow of a 7/7 bomber, she also provides the groups with invaluable propaganda.
As both a mother and widow of a 7/7 bomber, she also provides the groups with invaluable propaganda.
The
White Widow, who has been on the run since January 2012, got her grim
nickname after husband Germaine Lindsay blew up a London Tube train in
the 7/7 bombings in 2005.
Fifty six people were killed and more than 700 injured. Interpol has issued a rare ‘Red Notice’ for the White Widow’s arrest.
Lewthwaite,
from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, is believed to have widely used the
alias ‘Natalie Webb’ and travelled on a forged South African passport.
She is now officially being hunted by 190 countries and is one of the
most wanted international fugitives in the world.
Police seized
her laptop in 2011 and found details of how to build bombs and evidence
she was planning multiple terrorist attacks both in Africa and the West.
She
has also been linked to grenade attacks at non-Muslim places of worship
in Africa and a terrorist attack on western football fans watching Euro
2012 in the Jericho bar in Mombasa.
Head of Interpol, Ronald
Noble, said: “There is a global ‘tripwire’ for this fugitive. All 190
member-countries are aware of the danger posed by this woman, not just
across the region but also worldwide.”
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