
World wide terrorist, 'White Widow' Samantha Lewthwaite, has been linked to the huge terror attack which occurred today in Abuja.
The huge explosion destroyed forty buses and left a sickening trail of death and destruction as fuel tanks on nearby vehicles also exploded amid the heat of the blast.
But
while nobody has officially claimed responsibility, security sources,
according to reports fear the bombing may have been a revenge attack for
the death of Lewthwaite's mentor two weeks ago - al-Shabaab terror
chief Makaburi, aka Sheikh Abubakar Shariff Ahmed.
A senior
security source said agents across Africa were on high alert after the
assassination of Makaburi - reportedly by the UK and US funded Kenyan
Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) 14 days ago. Adding that Lewthwaite and
her associates "wanted revenge".
The source said:
"Makaburi
was always believed to be at the very top of the hierarchy of terror
organisation al-Shabaab. Intelligence suggests he introduced Samantha
Lewthwaite to many influential figures within the al-Shabaab network. He
guided her on her path to Jihad. His murder was seen as yet another act
of war."
Lewthwaite, 30, is believed to be in Nigeria, Kenya
or Somalia, where Islamist terror networks are closely linked, making it
far easier for her to evade detection than in Europe. The daughter of a
British Army soldier, she is already on Interpol's Most Wanted list in
connection with seven murders as well as the siege of the Westgate
shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya in September last year which left 67
dead and nearly 200 injured.
She was reportedly caught at a checkpoint in Nigeria just six months ago - but managed to bribe her way to freedom.She is also believed to have widely used the alias ‘Natalie Webb’ and travelled on a forged South African passport. She has been on the run since January 2012 and is now one of the most wanted international fugitives in the world, officially being hunted by 190 countries!
Local police, however, have linked today's bombing to the Boko Haram terrorist network.
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