‘White widow’ terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite has reappeared on Twitter, making references to soap operas and Strictly Come Dancing.
The world’s most wanted woman made the bizarre comments while tweeting about her love for jihad.
The mother of four is thought to be a key member of Al-Shabaab. The Al-Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group carried out the Nairobi mall attack last month in which 67 people were killed, including six Britons.
Intelligence analysts believe Lewthwaite – who was married to 7/7 bomber Germaine Lindsay – is using a Twitter account named after the Muslim Youth Centre, a Kenyan offshoot of Al-Shabaab.
Although Lewthwaite, 29, stopped tweeting in the aftermath of the Nairobi attacks, she apparently began again a fortnight ago, with her last message being posted as recently as Friday evening.
One of her first tweets since the attacks said: ‘In Islam there’s no choice. It’s not like, “Do I watch EastEnders or Corrie tonight?” No shortcuts in Islam!’
It is believed the tweet is a reference to the belief among many Muslim extremists that jihad against unbelievers is obligatory.
In another post, Lewthwaite added: ‘Muslims in Somalia don’t want to sit at home on a Saturday evening glued to Strictly Come Dancing with its C-list “stars”:))).’
She also appears to mock British police’s arrests of UK-based terror suspects, adding: ‘Oi! You’ve been nabbed Sunny [sic] Jim!’
Although it is impossible to verify who is writing the messages, the author refers to herself as ‘a girl in Kenya’, uses British references and speaks of Lewthwaite in the third person.
Intelligence analysts believe the tweets are by the fugitive widow.
Lewthwaite, a former soldier’s daughter from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, is said to have converted to Islam as a teenager.
Calling herself by the Islamic name Sherafiyah, she met and married Lindsay in 2002.
After the 7/7 attacks, she returned to Aylesbury but fled the UK by 2011, moving between Tanzania and Kenya to raise money for terrorism through fraud.
She has been on the run from Kenyan authorities after she narrowly escaped a police raid two years ago.
After the Nairobi attacks last month, Interpol issued an international warrant for her arrest.
A Twitter spokesman said yesterday that it did not comment on individual users’ accounts.
- Daily Mail
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