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‘White Widow’ Lewthwaite 'was not part of the attackers' - Kenyan police

Police also said that only between four and six armed men, not 10 to 15 as earlier thought, conducted the attack.

SAMANTHA LEWTHWAITE WAS not involved in last month’s attack on a Nairobi shopping mall that left 67 dead according to Kenyan police.

Police also said that between four and six armed men only, not 10 to 15 as earlier thought, conducted the attack.

“From what we have now that is coming out of the investigation, the number of attackers was between four to six,” police chief David Kimaiyo told Kenyan television station KTN.

“None of them managed to escape from the building after the attack,” he said, implying that they were killed in the confrontation.

Kimaiyo confirmed that Down-born Lewthwaite – nicknamed the “White Widow” — was not involved:

On Samantha we have also established that she was not part of the attackers in the building. There was no woman.

Lewthwaite who was the wife of one of the 7 July London bombers was reported to have been one of the attackers with Interpol issuing a warrant for her arrest.

During the 80-hour siege which began on 21 September, Kenyan officials said that between 10 and 15 gunmen were involved, and later claimed to have killed five of them.

Witnesses in the mall described how the fighters stormed the complex midday on that Saturday when it was crowded with shoppers, firing from the hip and hurling grenades at shoppers and staff.

CCTV camera footage from one part of the mall showed only four young men ambling around with AK-47 rifles in hand.

© – AFP

Read: ‘White Widow’ had fraudulently acquired South African passport >

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    Feb 12th 2013, 7:30 PM

    The Carnival is like a photographers dream, the place is absolutely awash with colour. Rio always gets the plaudits but the carnivals in Salvador, Bahia and Florinapolis are just as big and colourful.

    The organisers of our St.Patrick’s Day parades would do well to take a look at it and take inspiration. Watching tacky floats with advertisements for butchers and book shops doesn’t hold a match to how they do a parade in Brazil. I’ve nothing against local businesses, I just want to see a good show.

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    Feb 12th 2013, 11:33 PM

    True, but it doesn’t rain in Brazil like it does here. Imagine all that South American finery soaked in cold rain. The colours wouldn’t look so bright on a grey Irish day or a dark misty Irish night. I think we do very well considering our climate.

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    Feb 12th 2013, 6:06 PM

    Dem’s wharri call wimmins

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    Feb 12th 2013, 6:18 PM

    Looks like an amazing show!

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    Feb 12th 2013, 7:12 PM

    And we raven about st Patrick !!!!

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    Feb 12th 2013, 9:07 PM

    Never more.

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    Feb 12th 2013, 6:05 PM

    Cover up ladies, youll catch you death out there.

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