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Germaine Lindsay's widow Samantha Lewthwaite: my role as a bomber's wife
A British woman believed to be the widow of a July 7 bomber kept a diary in which she wrote that the wives of Muslim suicide bombers must be devoted, unquestioning and believe that life will be "sweeter in the hereafter", according to police.Officers in Kenya found notes they believe were written by Samantha Lewthwaite, who is wanted in connection with a suspected terrorist plot. Alongside shopping lists and diet tips
Miss Lewthwaite, the former wife of Germaine Lindsay, who detonated the Russell Street Tube bomb that killed 26 innocent people, gave interviews after the London attacks in which she said the actions of her ex-husband and father of two of her children were "abhorrent". Yet in the diary, she wrote that the "devoted" wife of a "mujihadeen" must realise that her "life in the hereafter promised to be sweeter" because of her husband's "sacrifice", said a police officer. The entry, written in a tatty A5 exercise book, added that such a wife must be "discrete" (sic), "obedient" and must understand that her husband's "calling" meant that both he and his wife would be cut off from their families. The officer said he believed the exercise book was in the possession of Scotland Yard officers helping Kenyan police investigate a terrorist cell believed to include Lewthwaite and at least two other British jihadists. A woman whose picture in a fake South African passport closely resembles Lewthwaite is wanted by police over her alleged connections to a group planning attacks against Westerners in Kenya. One alleged cell member, Jermaine Grant, from Newham, east London, has been charged with possessing materials with the intent to create a bomb. During a raid on his flat in a rundown suburb of Mombasa, on Kenya's coast, police discovered chemicals similar to those used by the July 7 bombers. There were strong links between Grant and Lewthwaite, it emerged on Monday, as police said that a house in an upmarket area of Mombasa was rented by Grant on behalf of Lewthwaite. His co-accused, Fouad Abubakr Manswab, was a close associate of a woman known to police only as Nassim, who was a friend to Lewthwaite and in whose house the diary was found. Nassim is the widow of Musa Hussein Abdi, an al-Qaeda agent killed in Mogadishu last year. The day after Kenyan police arrested Grant and Manswab, they questioned Lewthwaite at Nassim's house and took copies of her passport, a fake in the name of Natalie Faye Webb. They did not arrest her because they believed she was an innocent tourist. When they returned the next day to ask to see her laptop, she had fled. Police then found the diary. Police believe that the terrorist cell has 30 members and have been told that several bombs are "already out there" among "sympathisers" in Mombasa. They have been told that the targets include the United Nations headquarters in Nairobi and a shopping centre called Village Market that is popular with the capital's expatriates. Police are also searching for a Kenyan associate of Lewthwaite's, thought to go by the name Abdi Wahid, who was pictured with her as they crossed from Tanzania to Kenya in August last year. Posted by: Steve White 2013-09-24 |
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