This is Samantha Lewthwaite, 29, from the United Kingdom. She is an internationally wanted terrorist and may have been behind the attack on Nairobi’s Westgate Mall.
This is 29-year-old Samantha Lewthwaite, also known as the "White Widow." She is an alleged member of the Somali radical Islamic militant group al-Shabab. And she is now an international fugitive wanted by Interpol.
The daughter of a British soldier, Lewthwaite grew up as a normal kid in Aylesbury, England. As a teenager, while attending private school, she became interested in the Muslim religion and converted to Islam.
When she was 17, Lewthwaite met Jermaine Lindsay, a British Muslim, in an online chat room. Three years later, the couple was married.
The media dubbed Lewthwaite the "White Widow" after Lindsay blew himself up in the July 7, 2005, terrorist attack at London's King’s Cross subway station, killing 56 people. She was eight months pregnant with their second child at the time of his death.
