'White Widow' Lewthwaite 'Key' In Al Shabaab

Margot2 · Oct 13, 2013

There's a video at the second link

This is just an excerpt.. This woman writes about how much she loves her husband and children.. I just don't get it.

Kenyan intelligence believes Lewthwaite was living in an exclusive villa in Mombasa while plotting the attacks. When police raided her home, the mother-of-four was not there but police say they discovered a stash of ammunition and a laptop with a journal Lewthwaite had been writing.

A look at Lewthwaites personal diary sheds light on her love for her husband and how shes raising her children, according to the Sky report. She writes about how two of her children want to emulate their father, London bomber Jermaine Lindsay.

Lewthwaites journal goes on to express her commitment to her Muslim faith and her gratitude for being married to a shaheed (martyr,) Lindsay.

The diary may have been notes for a book Lewthwaite was working on, entitled I Want To Be A Mujahid, (Islamic military fighter)

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/1...itain-white-widow-to-al-shabaab-terror-group/

http://news.sky.com/story/1152971/white-widow-lewthwaite-key-in-al-shabaab

waltky · Jan 16, 2016

Al-Shabaab attacks Kenyan soldiers...

Dozens of Kenyans soldiers reportedly killed in al-Shabab attack in Somalia
Friday, Jan. 15, 2016 - Al Shabaab fighters attacked a remote Somali army base and entered a nearby town close to the border with Kenya on Friday, saying they had killed dozens of Kenyan soldiers in an African Union force supporting the government.

Somali and Kenyan military officials said fighters seized the Somali army base near the town of Ceel Cadde, about 550 km (340 miles) west of Mogadishu in a region near Kenyas border. Al Shabaab said it killed more than 60 Kenyan soldiers from the African force AMISOM, which said there was a battle for the base without giving details. Kenyas Defence Ministry said both sides suffered casualties but said numbers were not confirmed. Our gallant soldiers reacted swiftly to protect their camp, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said. Regrettably, some of our patriots in uniform paid the ultimate price. But he said we will not be cowed by the attack, which al Shabaab said was to drive Kenyans and others out of Somalia.

A shopkeeper in the Ceel Cadde town said soldiers from AMISOM appeared to have left the town and fighters were on the streets. We see al Shabaab in every corner of town, shopkeeper Abdullahi Iidle told Reuters. Some residents have fled. Al Shabaab has been driven out of major strongholds in Somalia by AMISOM and Somali army offensives launched last year. But the group still controls some rural areas and often launches guerrilla-style assaults and bomb attacks. The group, which is aligned with al Qaeda, said it took over the base after a suicide bomber rammed its gates, and also controlled the town, capturing nearly 30 trucks and armored vehicles. This attack sends a clear message to the Kenyan government that their militarys invasion of our Muslim lands and the massacre of innocent Muslims perpetrated by the Kenyan crusaders will not be without severe consequences, al Shabaab said.

Kenyan army soldiers ride on a vehicle at their base in Tabda, inside Somalia.

The group, which said it would expel the invaders, said in a statement that more than 63 Kenyans soldiers were killed. Al Shabaab, which said the base was overrun, has inflated casualty figures in the past, while the Somali government and other official estimates often play down numbers. The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) said al Shabaab fighters overran the Somali army base and AMISOM had counter-attacked. A senior Somali military official also confirmed the militants had taken over the base. AMISOM has gone out of the town and base for strategic reasons, Somali Colonel Farah Surow, who is based about 100 km (60 miles) from the Ceel Cadde base, told Reuters.

African Union troops, now numbering about 22,000 from several African nations, have spent nearly a decade battling al Shabaab insurgents in Somalia, a country mired in conflict since civil war broke out in 1991. Al Shabaab has in the past year staged multiple attacks against African Union bases in Somalia, part of a guerrilla warfare strategy to drive out foreign troops and impose its harsh version of Islamic law across the Horn of Africa nation.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...illed-his-troops/article28211264/?cmpid=rss1#
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waltky · Jun 1, 2016

MPs among dead in Mogadishu hotel attack...

Somalia attack: MPs among dead in hotel blast and gun raid
Wed, 01 Jun 2016 - Two MPs are among 10 people killed as al-Shabab gunmen storm a hotel in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu after car bomb attack.

Gunmen have stormed a hotel in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu, with reports of at least 10 dead and 50 wounded. The attackers entered the Ambassador Hotel on Maka al-Mukarama street after setting off a car bomb at the gates outside, witnesses said. Somalia's state news agency said two MPs were killed in the blast, with another four rescued. The al-Shabab militant group was quick to say it was behind the attack. The BBC's Somali Service reporter Ibrahim Aden in Mogadishu says the explosion is one of the largest to hit the city and the scale of destruction is huge.

Scene of bomb attack on Ambassador Hotel in Mogadishu

Somalia's state news agency Sonna said at least 50 people were hurt and that the death toll was likely to rise. It named the dead MPs as Abdullahi Jama Kabaweyne and Mohamoud Mohamed Gure. The head of the city's Amiin ambulance service has told the BBC the main Medina hospital is overcrowded. "I was the first person to reach scene. The damage was enormous," Dr Abdulkadir Andirahman Haji Aden said. "My brother and his son were among those injured. We are now in Medina hospital and it is overcrowded with wounded people. I have never seen something like this."

Al-Shabab, which is battling the UN-backed government, was driven from Mogadishu in 2011 but still remains a potent threat and frequently carries out attacks in the city. The government, with the help of African Union forces, is fighting the al-Qaeda-linked group to regain control of the country. Earlier on Wednesday, the government announced it had killed Mohamed Kuno, the al-Shabab militant who led the attack on Garissa University in Kenya in April 2015 that killed 148 people. He was one of 16 al-Shabab militants - four of them senior leaders - killed in an overnight raid on their convoy in Kismayo, a port city in southern Somalia.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-36430306
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Spooky · Jun 1, 2016

Thankfully this group is only concerned with Kenya. They are quite brutal.

Margot2 · Jun 4, 2016

White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite has murdered 400 people after becoming a key figure in jihadist terror group al Shabaab.

The 32-year-old mother of four’s atrocities include last month’s slaughter of 148 by gunmen at a university in Kenya, say security chiefs.

One told the Mirror in the Somalian capital, frequently bombed by al Shabaab: “This lady sits at the right hand of the leader directing attacks.”

She has been rapidly promoted through the ranks of al Shabaab after many of its leaders died in drone attacks.

The London University graduate was quickly recognised as intelligent and evil-minded enough by jihadi terror bosses to be trusted with the most horrific atrocities.

A senior Somali anti-terror officer says Lewthwaite is now at the right hand of al Shabaab leader Ahmad Umar and is suspected of ordering the deaths of more than 400 innocent people.

He said: “She is an evil person but a very clever operator.”

Lewthwaite, of Aylesbury, Bucks, is believed to have directed terror raids, suicide attacks and car bombings in Somalia and Kenya, as well as masterminding last month’s slaughter of 148 people, by gunmen at a university in Garissa, northern Kenya.

She has also launched a recruitment drive of teenagers and women as suicide bombers after bribing their desperate families with as little as £300.

One London resident blew herself up at a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu in February killing 25.

And Lewthwaite is believed to have sent brain-washed boys as young as 15 to their deaths as suicide bombers – after they were pumped full of heroin.

The top officer at Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency – who we are not naming to protect his identity – added: “The lady has moved up the ranks. She is one of the most important figures in the terror group.

“We think this lady is sitting at the right hand of the leader directing attacks.

“She does not carry out attacks herself as she is too important but is responsible for many, many deaths - hundreds.

“She uses children to kill for her after giving money to their families.”

But he says the world’s most wanted woman is now facing the same fate as her dead former jihadist leaders. NISA operatives are working with MI6 to capture her, dead or alive.

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/white-widow-samantha-lewthwaite-has-5714810

waltky · Jun 25, 2016

al-Shabaab strikes hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia...

Police: 15 People Killed in al-Shabab Attack on Mogadishu Hotel
June 25, 2016 - At least 15 people were killed Saturday when the militant group al-Shabab attacked a hotel near Mogadishu's airport, setting off a massive explosion followed by gunfire, Somali police said.

A suicide car bomber attacked late in the afternoon outside the Hotel Naso-Hablod. Gunfire was heard shortly afterward inside the hotel, officials said. More than two dozen people were injured, and police said an unknown number of people inside the hotel had been taken hostage. But Abdifitah Omar Halane, spokesman for Mogadishu regional administration, told VOA's Somali service that the siege was over. He said security personnel stormed the hotel Saturday night and were searching for the gunmen. The troops killed four militants who stormed into the hotel after the car bomb hit the hotel gate, and at least 15 other people have died during the attack," Halane told VOA.

A man raises his hands as he runs from the scene of a suicide bomb attack outside the Hotel Naso-Hablod in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu

VOA reporter Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulle in Mogadishu said there was a heavy exchange of gunfire, as well as another explosion, inside the hotel at the start of the attack. The hotel, used often by politicians and military officials, is north of the city's airport. The attack, the latest in a series against hotels and restaurants, came just three weeks after gunmen from the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab group stormed the Ambassador Hotel in Mogadishu. The militants besieged the hotel for more than 12 hours. Somali officials said 24 people were killed in that attack, including the three gunmen, and 57 people were rescued after being held overnight by the gunmen.

The attack also came while Muslims are observing Ramadan. In previous years, militants have increased attacks during the holy month, just before dawn or just after dusk, when people are gathering to break their daily fast. Earlier this month, Matt Bryden, a leading regional analyst and director of the Nairobi, Kenya-based Sahan Research organization, said al-Shabab has employed "the same tactics, techniques and procedures" in its attacks year after year. "I think that is where we see much more needs to be done in developing the capacity and the professionalism of the Somali security forces," Bryden told VOA.

http://www.voanews.com/content/somali-police-explosion-gunfire-at-mogadishu-hotel/3391926.html
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