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How ‘white widow’ Samantha Lewthwaite has escaped anti-terror police traps all along

Samantha Lewthwaite.

By NYAMBEGA GISESA

KENYA: Fanatical Samantha Lewthwaite, dubbed the ‘White Widow’, who is believed to be one of the attackers in the Westgate Mall siege, was last believed to be staying at a house owned by an Al-Shabaab top commander in Garissa County.

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