World’s Most Wanted Woman Linked To Abuja Bomb Attack

Samantha Lewthwaite, also known as the White Widow, has been linked to the horrific attack in Abuja on Monday, which left 74 dead and hundreds wounded, according to UK-based newspaper, Daily Star.

Also known as Sherafiyah, Lewthwaite is the widow of 7/7 suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay and one of the world’s most wanted terrorism suspects.

She had been accused of being involved in several terrorist attack in the past, including a mall siege in Kenya last year.

A huge explosion Monday ripped through a busy bus station in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, during the peak morning rush.

The enormous blast destroyed 40 buses and left a sickening trail of death and destruction as fuel tanks on nearby vehicles also exploded amid the heat of the blast.

According to Daily Star, while nobody has officially claimed responsibility, security sources fear the bombing may have been a revenge attack for the death of al-Shabaab terror chief Makaburi, aka Sheikh Abubakar Shariff Ahmed – Lewthwaite’s mentor – just two weeks ago.

Lewthwaite is an alleged member of the Somali radical Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab.

She has been accused of orchestrating grenade attacks at non-Muslim places of worship, and is believed to have been behind an attack on those watching football in a bar in Mombasa during Euro 2012.

The infamous widow of 7/7 bomber, Lindsay, is on the run in Africa with three children.

The daughter of a British Army soldier, she is already on Interpol’s Most Wanted list in connection with seven murders as well as the siege of the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, in September last year which left 67 dead and nearly 200 injured.
She was known to be “extremely close” to Makaburi, who coordinated the Westgate atrocity.

According to Daily Star, a senior security source said 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.

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.”

The source added that Lewthwaite and her associates “wanted revenge”.

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 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.