Interpol issues arrest warrant for 'white widow' eyed in Kenya terrorist attack

[Oftencold]

Interpol issues arrest warrant for 'white widow' eyed in Kenya terrorist attack | Fox News
Sept. 26, 2013

PARIS – Interpol has issued an arrest notice for the British woman known as the “white widow” who is being eyed as one of the key players in a terrorist attack on a Kenyan mall last week that left 72 dead.

The notice, issued at the request of Kenya, said Samantha Lewthwaite is wanted on charges of possessing explosives and conspiracy to commit a felony in Kenya in 2011.

Authorities believe Lewthwaite, 29, was involved in an alleged plot to attack restaurants and hotels inside the country, according to Reuters. They suspected she had rented several houses in upmarket areas in Mombasa to assemble a bomb.

Lewthwaite originally criticized her late husband — Jermaine Lindsay — for taking part in the London bombing, but later apparently embraced the jihadi cause.

She converted to Islam — reportedly while in her teens — and went on to study religion and politics at the School Of Oriental and African Studies in London. It was around that time she met Lindsay, first in an Internet chat room and later at a London demonstration against the war in Iraq.

The coupled married in an Islamic ceremony on Oct. 30, 2002, and moved back to Aylesbury a year later.

Local city councilor Raj Khan, who knew Lewthwaite's relatives in Aylesbury, recalled her as "an average, British, young, ordinary girl."

Amazing isn't it, that there appears to be a community existing in industrialized countries that is apparently quite adroit at truing more or less normal youngsters from those countries into ruthless international killers for Allah?

[Pretty Flamingo]

It can happen anywhere Oftencold. People are susceptible to influences, more so when they are at a crossroads, or are disaffected. I hope they find this woman soon.