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Report of 'White Widow' sighting

Publish date: 10 June 2014
Issue Number: 580
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: Kenya

Kenya is investigating reports that British terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite, known as the 'White Widow' has been sighted in the country.

BBC News reports that an unknown woman, possibly Lewthwaite, was given a police escort to visit a Kenyan army base in Somalia before disappearing. The Belfast Telegraph reports that she used fake documents suggesting she was working for a Northern Irish charity as she tried to cross the Kenyan border. Last month it was reported that Lewthwaite had married Islamic warlord Hassan Maalim Ibrahim in Somalia. She is accused of having links to Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab, which has launched attacks on Kenyan soil, according to the report. It notes her husband Germaine Lindsay was one of the four bombers who carried out the July 7 bombings in London in 2005 in which 52 people were killed. Full BBC News report

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