Coming from a British military family, she received a higher education, but became a feared terrorist.
She has carried out many large-scale terrorist attacks, carried out large-scale killings in shopping malls and streets with guns, and killed hundreds of lives.
She was issued the highest-level "Red Notice" by Interpol and offered a global bounty for her arrest.
Some say she has been killed and killed by the military, while others say she is married into a "terrorist family" in Kenya and is working for al-Qaida.
She is the super female villain known as the "White Widow", Samantha Luthwaite.
A leisurely Saturday morning on September 21, 2013. A group of militants suddenly descended from the sky and broke into the Westgate Shopping Center in Nairobi, Kenya's capital. Before the passing customers could react, several grenades exploded in the middle of the crowd. Then, along with billowing smoke, the terrorists began an indiscriminate and frantic strafing at the crowd.
For a time, gunshots, screams, glass cracking, one after another, the whole mall is like a purgatory on earth. Until the military and police arrived at the scene, the terrorists did not stop, they set fire to the military police in the mall, and also took and killed a large number of hostages.
The fierce exchange of fire between the two sides lasted for 3 days, until the evening of the 24th, Kenyan President Kenyatta announced with great sorrow that the suspects had been arrested and the terrorist attack was over.
The "Kenyan shopping mall attack," which was defined by overseas media as a "massacre," killed 72 people and injured 168 others, which was extremely cruel. Subsequently, a radical group called the "Somali Al-Shabaab Party" took the initiative to announce on social platforms that it was responsible for the terrorist attack. At the same time, the group warned that if the Kenyan government did not withdraw its troops immediately and cease its support for the Transitional Government of Somalia, it would launch more attacks in Kenya.
It is understood that the Somali Al-Shabaab was founded in 2006, also known as the "Jihad Youth Movement". It swore allegiance to the well-known al-Qaida organization as early as 2009 and is now the most threatening terrorist organization in sub-Saharan Africa.
Al-Shabaab in Somalia has always been known for its brutal attacks, and in order to achieve the ultimate goal of establishing an "Islamic Emirate in East Africa", they have created a very large number of large-scale terrorist attacks in the name of "jihad". On 4 October 2011, for example, members of al-Shabaab launched a suicide car bomb attack near the Ministry of Education office of the Transitional Government of Somalia, killing 76 people and injuring more than 150 others.
In 2013, after al-Shabaab in Somalia acknowledged the massacre at the manufacturer's yard, the Kenyan military immediately launched a close investigation of the suspect. During the period, some survivors revealed that among the attackers covered by black veils, there was a conspicuous white woman. The Kenyan government speculates that she is likely to be Samantha Luthwaite, a former veteran nicknamed "White Widow."
So, how did Samantha get on the path of a terrorist, and what happened to her?
Samantha was born in 1985 to a military family in Buckinghamshire, England, and was admitted to the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Not surprisingly, she should be from a wealthy family, a strict tutor, a wealth of knowledge, and a bright future. Khazar Mansa has embarked on a very different path from her father, perhaps due to a psychological deficit caused by her parents' divorce.
Osama bin Laden is Samantha's most admired person.
We don't know how Samantha worshipped os-jain Bin Laden. But what is certain is that Samantha is a fan of Bin Laden's fanatics. In 2013, police found Samantha's 34-line poem "Singing Osama" written to os-laden on her personal computer. It reads "Chief Osama, my father, my brother, I love you differently".
Bin Laden is known to be the leader of the world-class terrorist organization Al Qaeda. He has been committed to waging a "holy war" in an attempt to defeat the "corrupt regimes" of the United States and the Islamic world. Over the years, bin Laden has orchestrated countless terrorist attacks, such as the Bombing of the U.S. Embassy in East Africa, which killed 224 people and injured more than 4,500 people, and the 9/11 incident, which is arguably the "most terrorist attack."
And through Samantha's endless admiration for bin Laden and her goal of "continuing bin Laden's cause", it can be seen that Samantha actually became an extreme "mujahideen" long ago, which is why she will actively do things for al-Qaida later.
In addition to bin Laden, marriage also fills samantha's psychological deficit.
Samantha married at the age of 17, met her husband, Germain Lindsay, in an online chat room, and then came on a new family and gave birth to two children within 3 years.
But the problem is that Samantha's identity as husband is extremely not simple. I don't know if you have heard of the "London July 7 Bombing".
On the morning of July 7, 2005, taking advantage of the morning rush hour of commuting to work, four terrorists carrying bombs boarded 3 subways and 1 bus and detonated the bombs in a crowded crowd. The suicide bomb attack killed 52 people and injured more than 700 others, causing an extremely serious psychological shock and sense of threat to the people of the world.
Samantha's husband, Germain Lindsay (aka Hermaine Lindsay), was one of the four suicide bombers who blew up on the train between Russell Square station and King's Cross station.
Jessa Lindsay, a Jamaican-British, was 1 year younger than Samantha when she was only 19 years old. According to the British police investigation, the other three attackers in the "London Seven-Seven Bombings" Mohammed Siddiki Khan, Sheikh Zad Tanver and Hashib Hussein, must have been in a bookstore, brainwashed and instigated by terrorists, before acting as suicide bombers.
Only Germain Lindsay was different. Just in early July, Lindsay bought 10 bottles of perfume from 4 high-end brands for £9,000 and then personally processed them into homemade bombs at home. According to experts, if the alcohol rich in perfume is added to a homemade explosive device, it can not only cause a big explosion similar to a solid gasoline bomb, but also produce a larger flame. On July 7, Lindsay detonated these perfume bombs, and half of the 52 victims died at the hands of Lindsay.
This situation is enough to illustrate two problems.
First, if a rare perfume bomb can be created in just two or three days, Lindsay must have a long criminal history.
Second, Lindsay clearly had full autonomy and enthusiasm for this large bomb attack.
Although Samantha had nothing to do with the July 7 Bombings, she herself claimed to be completely unaware of her husband's terrorist actions. However, based on Samantha's subsequent actions, it is reasonable to speculate that Samantha either became a terrorist under the guidance of Lindsay, or she had become bin Laden's "fan sister" earlier, and she was "like-minded" with Lindsay.
In short, as the lives of Londoners returned to the right track, the heat of the bombing gradually dissipated, and Samantha disappeared from the public eye.
Fast forward many years, when the name Samantha Luthwaite was mentioned again, it was because of a terrorist attack. The difference, however, is that samantha in 2005 was the widow of a suicide bomber, while by this time she was already the mastermind and perpetrator of the terrorist attack.
One day in May 2012, just as Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine was approaching, a white woman broke into a bar in Kenya and attacked a crowd of fans with grenades, killing three people and injuring 30 others.
Subsequently, based on eyewitness accounts, police determined that the person responsible for the attack was Samantha Luthwaite. Perhaps because Samantha was a rare white female terrorist on the African continent, and because her ex-husband Lindsay was far more famous than her, the public gave Samantha the nickname "White Widow". Of course, she also became the target of arrest by the Kenyan police.
Of course, Samantha is really notorious internationally because of the "Nairobi mall massacre" mentioned at the beginning. Because the casualties of the incident were too heavy and the nature was too bad, many countries, including China and the United States, have publicly spoken out to advocate unity and increase counter-terrorism efforts.
Most strikingly, the ICC even decided to urgently release Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. Uhuru Kenyatta and Vice President William Ruto have been accused of creating national sexual violence after the 2007-2008 elections, which resulted in more than 1,000 deaths and 350,000 homelessness. The two were arrested and imprisoned in 2012 and subjected to a two-year investigation that has been inconclusive. However, because the Nairobi blood case required someone to return to preside over the situation, the International Criminal Court went so far as to withdraw the charge of "crimes against humanity" against Kenyatta on the grounds of "insufficient evidence".
After such a big battle, Samantha, as the number one suspect in the incident, has undoubtedly become the target of public criticism. Interpol soon issued the highest level of red notice, and the multinational team up to offer a reward for Samantha's arrest.
According to media disclosures, Samantha joined the Somali Al-Shabaab Party at the beginning of her arrival in Africa and has been working for al-Qaida for a long time. Samantha has a strong military training ability and has officially served as an instructor since early 2013, where she is responsible for training women's suicide squads for Al-Qaida. Not only that, but the United Kingdom and the United States also believe that Samantha should be one of al-Qaida's main recruiters in East Africa.
In other words, Samantha is not only a perpetrator of terrorist attacks, but also a high-level and important person in a large terrorist organization, and the level of danger naturally rises several levels.
With the release of the Red Notice, experts from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries gathered in Kenya for the first time to begin a large-scale search for Samantha. However, eight years later, Samantha Luthwaite is still in a state of uncertainty and whereabouts.
Different officials and media have two diametrically opposed accounts of her situation.
Statement one. Samantha Luthwaite was shot dead by Russian snipers in Ukraine in November 2014.
Statement two. Samantha used makeup and other techniques to successfully escape Kenya. In mid-2014, Samantha married Fahmi Jamal Salim, the leader of a branch of al-Shabaab in Somalia. For now, Samantha is still hiding in Syria, returning to her old ways, training a female-made human bomb squad for a large terrorist organization. If this claim is true, there may be many terrorist attacks behind which Samantha is manipulating.
According to few sources, Samantha Luthwaite is like a person who was unhappy in childhood, led astray by her husband, hateful and pitiful. But some analysts believe that Samantha's malice is actually largely engraved in her bones, and her desire for power is very strong, and she has been seeking control of the East African branch of al-Qaida. And the labels of Lindsay's widow, white women, and higher educationers that others have labeled her have all been used by her as a weight to make her step by step.
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