Her husband blew himself up in an attack in London into the air, then she disappeared without a trace from the scene. Now the British Samantha Lewthwaite is wanted by Interpol. Was the “White Widow” involved in the terror attack in Nairobi?
The pass is the number A01524783 and is valid until January 2021st It is issued on Natalie Faye Webb, born 29 October 1985 Nationality: South African. The passport photo shows a pale young woman with hair combed back severely.
The passport is fake. Webb is an alias behind which to hide Samantha Lewthwaite, a young mother from Britain, the unrecognized travels through Africa for years and turned into terrorist circles. The at least suspected, the Kenyan police. The pass is like terrorism investigators during a house search in December 2011 in Mombasa hands. Since then Lewthwaite is suspected to have been involved in planning attacks on resort hotels at the resort on the Indian Ocean.
Since Thursday, the 29-year-old Briton is now also wanted by Interpol, the international police authority at the request of Kenya gave a red notice out. This provides Lewthwaite in 190 countries on the wanted list.
The Interpol arrest warrant mentioned only the old accusations of 2011, but the Kenyan authorities suspect that the converted Muslim could be involved in the bloody attack on the Westgate Shopping Center in Nairobi at the weekend. In the attack, the Islamist al-Shabab militia least 67 people were killed and 70 are still missing.
Eyewitnesses reported among the 10 to 15 bombers had been a white woman. Kenya’s foreign minister spoke of a “British woman”. To date there is no evidence of involvement Lewthwaites, but obviously want the investigators to exclude anything.
Nairobi Mall Attack:Samantha Lewthwaite converted to Islam at 15
Samantha Lewthwaite moved for the first time on 7 July 2005 into the worldwide spotlight when her husband Germaine Lindsay blew himself up in the Piccadilly Line of the London Underground station near King’s Cross in the air and crack with 26 people to death. It was the deadliest of the four bombs that day. Two months of silence, the then 21-year-old widow, she gave an interview in the “Sun”. You’ve seen the television pictures and cried, she told the newspaper. You did not know about Lindsay’s plan. He was a “peaceful person”.
It is unclear whether it was inaugurated at that time or later discovered the jihad for themselves. According to the BBC it was never in any case suspected to have been involved in the London attacks. Old friends from her hometown can not imagine that Lewthwaite has something to do with terror to this day. You have them. Still remembered as a shy girl
The daughter of a British soldier initially grew up in Northern Ireland, where her father was stationed. In primary school, the family moved to Aylesbury northwest of London. Here Lewthwaite became friends with a Muslim family in the neighborhood and converted to Islam at age 15. Soon she began to wear a headscarf in school. Of radicalization nothing could be seen, it seemed more an act of youthful self-discovery to be.
Kenya Mall Attack:With two children of Africa
After graduating, she went to study at the prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She met her future husband know, it was the highly political time after the attacks on the World Trade Center. Supposedly they went together to demonstrate against the Iraq war. A few months after getting to know the couple married, in 2004 son Abdullah came into the world.
After Lindsay’s suicide attack the house of the “white widow”, as she was henceforth called by the British tabloid, was pelted with an incendiary device. She got police protection. Aylesbury she brought a daughter of Lindsay to the world. Lewthwaite then disappeared from the scene.
Little is known about her life in recent years. You should have stayed with their children in South Africa, Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania – under various false names. According to “Daily Telegraph” they traveled in July 2008 for the first time as Natalie Webb in South Africa. You should have worked in Johannesburg as an IT specialist in a food factory. With the wrong password, they also traveled to Kenya in January 2011 further before the document was declared by the South African authorities to be invalid.
As Lewthwaite after the raid in Mombasa was suddenly in early 2012 under suspicion of terrorism, criticism was voiced in the UK. Politicians complained that the British intelligence services, the wife of an assassin does not simply from the eyes had been permitted to leave.
The game of hide and should henceforth Lewthwaite significantly harder. With the international call Kenya have put a “global trip wire,” said Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble. If they passed, they must answer to a felony due explosives possession and conspiracy.
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