Samantha Lewthwaite – the ‘White Widow’ being hunted in the wake of the Nairobi mall massacre – is secretly married to a former officer in the Kenyan Navy, a confidential Scotland Yard file on her reveals. The dossier throws new light on the shadowy world of the mother of four who converted to Islam as a schoolgirl and is now the world’s most wanted woman. As well as being the suspected mastermind behind the Westgate mall attack, which killed 67 people and left 71 missing and 200 injured, she is sought for earlier plots in her role as a major player in Al Qaeda’s Somali offshoot, Al Shabaab.
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Samantha Lewthwaite is married to a former officer in the Kenyan Navy
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Abdi Wahid was in Afghanistan protecting westerners from the Taliban
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While she is wanted, he can travel freely and is currently in Europe
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Lewthwaite has made several calls to woman described as her ‘aunt’,
His relationship with Lewthwaite has baffled detectives, given his military background and because he once worked as a private security officer in @placeholder, guarding westerners against attack from the Taliban.