Samantha Lewthwaite The 'White Widow' Story Involved In The Kenya Mall Attack, Is Yet To Be Confirmed

Reports that a white woman was among the terrorists who attacked Kenya's Westgate shopping mall on Saturday, media speculation that she might have been involved. But no official confirmation has been given to confirm the story. A senior Kenyan government official said a woman was among the attackers. Yet it is "impossible" based on the government's photo evidence to determine if this woman is Lewthwaite although investigation are still in progress to confirm. Lewthwaite, a white woman born in Buckinghamshire, England, earned her nickname as the widow of Germaine Lindsay, one of the four suicide bombers who attacked London's transportation system on July 7, 2005. Now age 29, Lewthwaite met Lindsay, a British Muslim, when she was 17, according to the Daily Mail. A convert to Islam, she married him in 2002. After the London attacks, she denied having knowledge of the plans. Later, Kenyan authorities say, she emerged in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa and became part of a terror cell linked to Al-Shabaab. In December 2011, Kenyan authorities raided three homes in Mombasa, including one allegedly used by Lewthwaite, and arrested some people on suspicion of planning to destroy a bridge, a ferry and hotels frequented by Western tourists. At Lewthwaite's residence, investigators found the kind of bomb-making materials that were used in the London bombings, Kenyan counterterror police said. But Lewthwaite was not found. A security guard who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity in 2012 said he saw a white woman leave the residence hours before the raid. Authorities have yet to catch up to her. Kenyan authorities also suspect Lewthwaite of hatching a plot to break fellow Briton Jermaine Grant out of jail after he was arrested in connection with the alleged Mombasa plot.