News World Kenya mall massacre: English widow in veil Samantha gave orders in Arabic to terrorists to kill innocents, Al Shabaab describes her as 'brave'

Kenya mall massacre: English widow in veil Samantha gave orders in Arabic to terrorists to kill innocents, Al Shabaab describes her as 'brave'

Nairobi: Samantha Lewthwaite, the 'white widow' of London 7/7 bomber Jermaine Lindsay wearing a veil, was barking orders in Arabic at the Al Shabaab gunmen to fire inside the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi on

The mother of four, an original resident of Home Counties, is now one of the main financiers and bomb-making tutors for Al Shabaab.

Islamist terror group Al Shabaab claimed it carried out the atrocity in which three Britons were killed and 175 people were left injured.

It said last night on Twitter that Samantha Lewthwaite, the ‘white widow' of London 7/7 bomber Jermaine Lindsay, was ‘in their ranks' and a ‘brave lady'.

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