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Kenya Terrorist Attack Perhaps Led by British Mother of ThreeThe Monday terrorist attack on a mall in Nairobi, Kenya that has now embroiled police in a standoff with Al Qaeda-linked militants may have been orchestrated by a white British mother of three.29-year-old Samantha Lewthwaite, who's been on the run since 2005 after she was questioned by police regarding her then-husband's role as perpetrator of the London subway attacks, seems to have surfaced to orchestrate the shootings at Westgate Shopping Mall that have killed at least 62 people, according to anti-terrorist officials. Witnesses describe seeing a woman that fits her description. The Christian Science Monitor's David Clark Scott reports that Lewthwaite is the daughter of a former British soldier and converted to Islam as a teenager. Her children have apparently remained by her side in her time with the Al Qaeda affiliated Al Shabab group, who has referred to Lewthwaite as their "White Sister." "Lewthwaite has been variously described as a financier, recruiter, and trainer for al Qaeda, and the creator of an all-women jihadist squad in Africa," writes Scott. "She has been accused of orchestrating grenade attacks at worship centers of 'unbelievers of Islam' and believed to be behind an attack on those watching soccer in a bar in Mombasa during Euro 2012."