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Kenya to sponsor holiday for US tourist who police mistook for wanted Samantha Lewthwaite

NAIROBI, KENYA: The government has promised to sponsor a fully-paid holiday   for the family   of   the   15-year old   US   tourist who was   reportedly harassed and branded a terrorist by   a police   officer along Mombasa Highway at Mlolongo area, Nairobi.

Interior cabinet secretary revealed the officer was searching the family when he later asked the female tourist she had looks like those of wanted terrorist Samantha Lewthwaite popularly known as the White Widow.

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