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Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:28 am Post subject: Widow of 7/7 bomber hunted in terror alert |
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The Times, 29 February 2012
Widow of 7/7 bomber hunted in terror alert
Kenyan police investigating new plot seek woman with multiple identities 7/7 bomber's widow hunted in terror alert
by Sean O'Neill, The Times, 29 February 2012
A woman who police believe may be the widow of one of the July 7 bombers is wanted for questioning by Kenyan authorities about a suspected terror plot, The Times has learnt.
Anti-terrorist officers in Nairobi suspect that Samantha Lewthwaite, 28, who was married to Jermaine Lindsay, the suicide bomber who blew up a Tube train at King's Cross in 2005, may have been part of a cell planning a terror attack in the coastal city of Mombasa last Christmas.
The Kenyans are hunting a female suspect who evaded capture when police swooped on the group last December. Kenyan police said that she has been using a number of identities.
"We know quite a bit about her now.
She has had three identities in the past and that [Samantha Lewthwaite] is one possible identity," Eric Kiraithe, a Kenyan police spokesman, said yesterday.
It is understood that she was tipped off and managed to flee the gang's hideout before police arrived. Only later did officers realise that the woman had been using a false identity.
She had claimed to be Natalie Faye Webb, a South African, but it was later established that the passport she was carrying was a fake. The Kenyan authorities have been liaising with the Metropolitan Police over the continuing operation. The Met sent a large team of detectives from its Counter Terrorism Command to Nairobi to assist with the investigation and attempts have been made to trace her in Britain.
One Briton, Jermaine Grant, 29, from Newham, East London, has been charged with possessing bomb-making material and conspiring to cause an explosion. He is expected to stand trial in Kenya in May.
But police are still searching for two other British suspects — the woman and Habib Ghani, from Hounslow, West London, who left Britain several years ago to live in Africa.
The terror cell is thought to have been directed by al-Shabaab, the Mujahidin group which is waging a guerrilla war against Kenyan security forces in neighbouring Somalia. There are between 30 and 40 Britons at present fighting with al-Shabaab, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda, in the Somali conflict.
Ms Lewthwaite's family, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, said that they had not had any contact with their daughter in recent years and knew nothing of her whereabouts.
The daughter of a former British Army soldier, Ms Lewthwaite converted to Islam as a teenager and met Lindsay through an internet chatroom.
They married in 2002 and three years later, just before the birth of their second child, he detonated a rucksack bomb on a Piccadilly Line train at King's Cross, killing 26 of the 52 victims who died in the 7/7 attacks.
Ms Lewthwaite later told a newspaper that the attacks were "abhorrent" and that her husband was a young, naive man whose mind had been poisoned by radical preachers.
But the 7/7 inquests were told that she and Lindsay had been to West Yorkshire to visit Mohammad Sidique Khan, a veteran jihadi and the ringleader of the London bombers. In 2009 Ms Lewthwaite was said to have given birth to a third child, but the father was not named on the birth certificate.
The woman Kenyan police are searching for entered the country in November last year using a South African passport in the name Natalie Faye Webb. She was travelling with three children and linked up with other members of the suspected terror cell in Mombasa.
Since then it has been established that the South African passport was a fake and the real Natalie Faye Webb, 26, is English and has no connection with the plot. She is the victim of identity theft and her family live in a commuter town in Essex.
Her father, John, a former financial broker, said that his daughter was living in Britain and had never set foot in Kenya.
The authorities emphasise that they cannot confirm that the woman they are searching for is Ms Lewthwaite unless and until she is captured.
Kenyan police fear that she and Ghani have managed to escape across the Kenyan border but believe they are still in East Africa.
One Kenyan source said: "Samantha Lewthwaite is one of the names in our records. She had three children with her. She was connected to the terror group but we do not think she was in an intimate relationship with any of the men in the group."
But her father, Andy Lewthwaite, said he could not believe that his daughter had become involved in a terrorist plot.
"After it [7/7]happened, I asked her several times if she knew it was going to happen and she always told me she didn't know," he said. "I cannot believe she would be involved in something like this and be there with the children. We have not had any contact with her for some time, I haven't spoken to her for a long time. I don't know if she's in this country or where she is.
"She has a lot of friends up North but she does not have much to do with us. I don't even know the name of her latest child."
Scotland Yard refused to confirm or deny whether it was trying to trace Ms Lewthwaite. A spokesman said that the Met was continuing to work with the Kenyan authorities. The Home Office said that it could not comment on whether Ms Lewthwaite, who is not thought to have any previous convictions, was on any terrorism watchlists which might have alerted the authorities if she left the country.
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 2:42 pm Post subject: British press: Widow of 7/7 bomber hunted in terror alert |
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The Times, 29 February 2012
London Evening Standard, 29 February 2012
The Sun, 1 March 2012
Belfast Telegraph, 1 March 2012
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http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/02/18708561.php
British press: Widow of 7/7 bomber hunted in terror alert
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compiled by Cem Ertür
2 March 2012
excerpts from: Widow of 7/7 bomber hunted in terror alert
Kenyan police investigating new plot seek woman with multiple identities 7/7 bomber's widow hunted in terror alert
by Sean O'Neill, The Times, 29 February 2012
Quote: | A woman who police believe may be the widow of one of the July 7 bombers is wanted for questioning by Kenyan authorities about a suspected terror plot, The Times has learnt.
Anti-terrorist officers in Nairobi suspect that Samantha Lewthwaite, 28, who was married to Jermaine Lindsay, the suicide bomber who blew up a Tube train at King's Cross [in Central London] in 2005, may have been part of a cell planning a terror attack in the coastal city of Mombasa last Christmas.
The Kenyans are hunting a female suspect who evaded capture when police swooped on the group last December. [...] She has had three identities in the past and that [Samantha Lewthwaite] is one possible identity," Eric Kiraithe, a Kenyan police spokesman, said yesterday. [...]
The Kenyan authorities have been liaising with the [London] Metropolitan Police over the continuing operation. The Met [i.e. the London Metropolitan Police] sent a large team of detectives from its Counter Terrorism Command to Nairobi to assist with the investigation and attempts have been made to trace her in Britain. [...]
The terror cell is thought to have been directed by al-Shabaab, the Mujahidin group which is waging a guerrilla war against Kenyan security forces in neighbouring Somalia. There are between 30 and 40 Britons at present fighting with al-Shabaab, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda, in the Somali conflict. |
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:19 pm Post subject: Brit ‘bomber’ disguised in burka is arrested |
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4179380/Bomber-man-hid-in-bu rka.html
‘Bomber’ man hid in burka
by Neil Syson, The Sun, 8 March 2012
A BRIT terror suspect linked to bomber's widow Samantha Lewthwaite was arrested in Kenya disguised as a woman, a court heard.
Londoner Jermaine Grant, 29, was allegedly wearing a Muslim burka when he was held on a bus in northern Kenya in 2008.
He is accused of being part of a gang that attacked a police station that year in the town of Wajir. Grant was first arrested soon after the attack but escaped and went on the run, the court in the capital Nairobi was told.
Sergeant Kulmia Hamud said passengers had tipped off cops there was a man on the bus in women's clothes.
He said: "I closely looked at his head and realised he was a man."
Grant, who appeared in court in handcuffs, was remanded in custody until April 10.
His lawyer Mbugua Mureithi said: "My client denies any involvement." Muslim convert Grant also faces trial in the port of Mombasa in May on separate charges of possessing explosives and plotting to launch an attack.
Mum-of-three Lewthwaite, 28, the widow of 7/7 London suicide bomber Jermaine Lindsay, is wanted in Kenya over a suspected terror plot.
UK cops and forensics experts are helping an investigation allegedly linking her and Grant.
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