THIS IS HOW THE KENYAN BOMBING SUSPECT ESCAPED Lewthwaite, who was born in Co Down, rented a unit at the Westgate Shopping mall months ago in preparation for last week’s terror killing spree. She hung up newspapers around the shop unit to conceal what was going on inside, pretending to be stocking up on goods. Staff have told police in Nairobi they helped a woman fitting the description of Samantha Lewthwaite lift boxes into the shop unit. Witness accounts reveal a woman closely resembling the 29-year-old mother of three was seen being led away among panicked survivors, her face and upper clothes splashed with blood. Interpol has issued a “red flag” international arrest warrant for Lewthwaite, based on intelligence that she led the attack and escaped. Shocking stories about the brutalities inflicted by the terror gang are beginning to emerge. Children were among those deliberately killed and there are reports that an infant was decapitated and the head thrown at Kenyan soldiers during the four-day siege. It is now believed Lewthwaite was the leader of the 13 to 17 terrorists who carried out the attack, but slipped away while the others were cornered by Kenyan soldiers. The reports strongly contradict some of the impressions given last week that Lewthwaite was merely a book-keeper or finance raiser for the al-Qaeda-affiliated Somali group, Al Shabaab. Kenyan police have been searching for Lewthwaite since it emerged she took up residence there in 2011 after spending three years living under false identities in South Africa. They believe she had already established links with the Somali terror group Al Shabaab and married one of its senior figures. Her second husband was shot dead in a police raid in Mombasa last October, according to sources.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 07:55:39 +0000