The real-life killers, fanatics, and spies you'd be well-advised to steer clear of
Samantha Lewthwaite
Approximate age: 29
AKA: The White Widow
Alleged crimes: Born in Northern
Ireland and raised outside of London, Lewthwaite is on Interpol's list
of people it wants arrested yesterday. Not for her suspected involvement
in the horrific Nairobi mall attack, which British papers have
incessantly linked her to, but for planning to bomb a Kenyan resort in
2011.
Why she's scary: Lewthwaite’s a
mystery. She first tasted fame in 2005 as the pregnant, clueless wife of
a London tube bomber. After that she got squirrelly, disappearing for a
few years before popping up in Kenya, where she started running with
the Somali terrorist group al-Shabab. By 2011, she was wanted by Kenyan
authorities for plotting to bomb sites in Mombasa. No one could find
her. She's so good at discreetly hopping between Kenya and Somalia and
using fake passports that one BBC journalist says she's become a
"mythological figure." If all those links to terrorism weren't scary
enough, Lewthwaite is reportedly ensuring that her children carry on her legacy of terror.
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