The White Widow

The story of Britain’s most feared female terrorist. Samantha Lewthwaite is a white British daughter of suburban Buckinghamshire, but Samantha is also Sherafiyah, the widow of Germaine Lindsay, the man who murdered 26 passengers on the Piccadilly Line in London on July 7th, 2005. Soon after the White Widow fled Britain, a rocket grenade was fired into a sports bar in Nairobi, killing three locals. Scotland Yard confirmed that fingerprints linked to the bombing were those of Samantha Lewthwaite. Later, when a gang of al-Shabab gunmen carried out indiscriminate murders in a Nairobi shopping center, all eyes fell on Samantha. The White Widow is currently on the run somewhere in East Africa with her children, pursued by the CIA, MI5, MI6, and the Kenyan police. Here we will track down the true story of Britain’s most feared female terrorist and ask how she became a convert to al-Qaeda.