A British woman who has allegedly taken part in terrorist activity "many times before" was among the attackers who laid siege to a Kenyan shopping mall, the country's foreign minister has said.
Amina Mohamed claimed the militant acted alongside "two or three" Americans during the atrocity in Nairobi which killed at least 62 people, including six Britons.
The announcement will fuel speculation that British terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite, who was married to the July 7 bomber Jermaine Lindsay, was involved.
Lewthwaite, dubbed the "White Widow", is known to be in East Africa and is wanted by Kenyan police over alleged links to a terrorist cell that planned to bomb the country's coast.
In March last year officials said she had fled to Somalia and that officers were hunting a woman who used several identities, including hers.
The Kenyan authorities had claimed all the militants involved in the three-day mall siege were men but Ms Mohamed appeared to contradict this in a US television interview.
"From the information that we have, two or three Americans (were involved) and I think so far I have heard of one Brit... a woman ... and I think she has done this many times before," she told the PBS NewsHour programme.
Are we gong to impose a travel ban on them? Are we going to place a visa restriction on them?
What do you think?
U see am? Anybody can turn terrorist no matter ur nationality.
ReplyDeleteBritain should be on terrorist list
ReplyDeleteBritain should be on terrorist list
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they know about dis since and has been covering it up so it won't go pub. That a brit is a terrorist. Americans are too if we search well. Its only africa and naija own they wil mek pub fast fast.
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