The White Widow
Samantha Lewthwaite is Britain's most feared female terrorist. A white British daughter of suburban Buckinghamshire, Samantha is also the widow of Germaine Lindsay, the man who murdered 26 passengers on the Piccadilly Line in London on July 7th, 2005. Soon after Lewthwaite fled Britain, a rocket grenade was fired into a sports bar in Nairobi. Scotland Yard confirmed that fingerprints linked to the bombing were Lewthwaite's. Later, when al-Shabab gunmen carried out indiscriminate murders in a Nairobi shopping center, all eyes fell on Samantha. The White Widow is currently on the run somewhere in East Africa with her children.
Samantha Lewthwaite is Britain's most feared female terrorist. A white British daughter of suburban Buckinghamshire, Samantha is also the widow of Germaine Lindsay, the man who murdered 26 passengers on the Piccadilly Line in London on July 7th, 2005. Soon after Lewthwaite fled Britain, a rocket grenade was fired into a sports bar in Nairobi. Scotland Yard confirmed that fingerprints linked to the bombing were Lewthwaite's. Later, when al-Shabab gunmen carried out indiscriminate murders in a Nairobi shopping center, all eyes fell on Samantha. The White Widow is currently on the run somewhere in East Africa with her children.
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