Samantha Lewthwaite (British ‘White Widow) is believed to be in Yemen fighting for jihadists
Samantha Lewthwaite (British ‘White Widow) is believed to be in Yemen fighting for jihadists.
The 37-year-old terrorist, who was married to one of the 7/7 suicide bombers and is accused of causing the deaths of 400 people, is Believed to have traveled 200 miles between Africa and the Middle East in 2018.
In 2009 she fled the UK to South Africa. She later crossed into Tanzania and Kenya in 2011. Later, investigators tracked her down to Somalia where she was sheltered by al-Shabaab militants. She then traveled around the world. It was three years ago that 200 miles of the Gulf of Aden were crossed to reach war-torn Yemen.
Though no intelligence on British mother Lewthwaite’s exact location has been received for months, security sources now believe that she is caught up in the The civil war in Yemen between rival IS militants and government forces has erupted into chaos.
According to one source, The Sun was told by: Yemen was ‘Lewthwaite’s last known location.
“But, it’s just as hard to find intelligence there as in Syria during the IS regime’s peak. Because Yemen is so dangerous, there’s almost no Western presence. It is presumed that she is still alive, and supported by extremists, despite the lack of evidence.
Lewthwaite, originally of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, was the wife of 7/7 bomber Germaine Lindsay and is thought to be behind scores of suicide attacks across Africa and the Middle East.
The 37-year-old terrorist fled the UK for South Africa in 2009, later crossing into Tanzania in 2011 and then Kenya. Investigators later tracked her to Somalia, where she sheltered with al-Shabaab militants, before travelling around 200 miles across the Gulf of Aden to war-torn Yemen three years ago
Lewthwaite, originally of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, was the wife of 7/7 bomber Germaine Lindsay and is thought to be behind scores of suicide attacks across Africa and the Middle East
Interpol issued a Red Notice warrant for her arrest after she was linked to the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Kenya, which left five Britons and 66 other people dead and injured around 200 others.
Security services believe her other atrocities include the slaughter of 148 people by gunmen at a university in 2015.
In Yemen, she is understood to have recruited female suicide bombers with bribes of £300 0 a huge amount locally for desperate families. She is also thought to have sent male suicide bombers as young as 15, high on heroin, to their deaths.
London University graduate Lewthwaite reportedly altered her appearance through plastic surgery and piled on weight in a bid to remain unrecognised.
She has pledged to raise all of her four children, who have three different fathers, as jihadists.
As a teenager she was seduced by the teachings of extremist cleric Trevor Forrest, or Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal, through whom she met Lindsay, who killed himself and 26 others in 2005.