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White widow: where is the most wanted woman terrorist?

Aylesbury: She is called the most wanted woman in the world, a suspected terrorist charged with plotting to blow up resort hotels in Kenya packed with Christmas tourists, a Westerner who wrote an ode praising

India TV News Desk Updated on: January 13, 2014 11:16 IST


“What was the journey from there to here?” asked Hussain. “I don't think you wake up radical. One is educated, inculcated, pulled into it. This is a small community. One would hope that if anything unusual was going on someone somewhere would have noticed it. No one seems able to paint a picture of what happened. What is her role? What does she do?

“We're at a loss.”

Samantha Louise Lewthwaite was born on May 12, 1983, in the violence-scarred British territory of Northern Ireland, where her father was a British Army soldier and her mother an Irish Catholic — the Ulster equivalent of star-crossed lovers.

Before Lewthwaite reached age 6 the family moved to Aylesbury, where her father worked as a truck driver until the couple's separation.

Raj Khan, a former Aylesbury mayor who knew Lewthwaite and her family, said she forged strong bonds with the city's Muslims, a group that includes many resettled Pakistanis. She converted to Islam as a teenager.

“Living in the neighbourhood, she became very friendly,” said Khan. “She came to enjoy the hospitality of the Muslim community.”
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