Kenya Siege: Nairobi Westgate Massacre Was Led By 29-Year-Old Widow Of A Suicide Bomber

The terror attack on a Kenyan shopping centre that has left 68 dead was being led by the white English widow of a 7/7 bomber, it was claimed last night. 

The 7 July 2005 London bombings (often referred to as 7/7) were a series of co-ordinated suicide attacks in London which targeted civilians using the public transport system during the morning rush hour. On the morning of Thursday, 7 July 2005, four terrorists detonated four bombs, three in quick succession aboard London Underground trains across the city and, later, a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square.

Soldiers said a white woman wearing a veil was shouting orders to gunmen in Arabic during the bloody massacre inside the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi.

 Islamist terror group Al Shabaab claimed it carried out the atrocity in which over 175 people were left injured. 

 The Kenyan military claimed last night that 'most' of the hostages had been rescued but this morning a military spokesman admitted the fate of those held was still not clear. Military helicopters circled over the mall at daybreak today, when about five minutes of sustained gunfire broke out at the mall. It is an indication that at least one of the estimated 10 to 15 gunmen who attacked the mall when it was filled with shoppers on Saturday was still on the loose. 

 Al Shabaab said last night on Twitter that Samantha Lewthwaite, the ‘white widow’ of London 7/7 bomber Jermaine Lindsay, was ‘in their ranks’ and a ‘brave lady’. 

Hostages were still trapped inside the shopping centre after more than 24 hours of carnage in which men, women and children were slaughtered if they could not recite the Koran or name the mother of the Prophet Mohammed. 

As well as boasting Lewthwaite was with them, Al Shabaab claimed two British men from London, Liban Adam, 23, and Ahmed Nasir Shirdoon, 24, were among the ‘holy warriors’ in the attack.