Police are yet to trace a British woman they linked to terrorism six months after she entered Kenya. Ms Natalie Faye Webb, 26, wh o entered the country at the Namanga border point on August 25th last year is said to be a financier of terrorist groups including the Somalia-based Al-Shabaab.
On Saturday, the deputy police spokesman, Mr Charles Owino, said several police raids, including “one major one” in Mombasa had failed to capture Ms Webb.
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“Our intelligence and anti-terror unit were in a position to know the presence of this lady in the country and whatever was planned. We carried out raids in some residences in Mombasa and we are still on, trying to establish the exact location of this lady and her accomplices,” he said.
Mr Owino was referring to a raid in January where the recce company of the General Service Unit, together with officers from the National Intelligence Security Service surrounded a house belonging to a wife of terror mastermind Musa Hussein Abdi, also known as Dheere.
British media has since reported that Ms Webb was married to one of the suicide bombers who killed passengers using public transport in London on July 7, 2005.
According to the Daily Telegraph and the Times, the suspect has two other names including Samantha Lewthwaite, who was married to Jermaine Lindsay, one of the 7/7 bombers.
Lindsay killed 26 people when he blew himself up on the Piccadilly Line between King’s Cross and Russell Square in July 2005.
Kenyan police said Ms Webb’s South African passport could have been forged. She is said to be connected to Jermaine Grant, 29, a UK national, currently jailed at the Shimo la Tewa prison for pleading guilty to being in Kenya illegally and is also facing possession of explosives charges.
Police first released her photographs on December 28.
“Kenya Police has cause to believe that the said Natalie Faye has information regarding some suspects connected to the Al-Shabaab.
She is therefore required to report to the nearest police station or police officer. Any person who may have information on her whereabouts is requested to offer this information to police,” a dispatch from Mr Eric Kiraithe, the police spokesman, says.
Photo/LABAN WALLOGA The house thought to have been used by Briton Natalie Faye Webb in Mombasa. Police raids have failed to capture her.
The photographs released by police included the one on her passport, which has been widely published in foreign press, and another taken at the border point.
“She is believed to be in the country travelling in the company of her three children — a girl and two boys aged 10, 8 and 5 years, respectively,” the police report added.
Officers from Scotland Yard arrived in Kenya late December and have been working with their Kenyan counterparts.
Both police departments have published Ms Webb’s picture and issued an alert to the public.
The Telegraph reported that Ms Webb, was seven months pregnant with their second child when her husband launched his 7/7 attacks.
She had met Lindsay in 2002 over the Internet and initially denied his involvement in the 7/7 attacks until authorities produced forensic evidence to confirm his identity.
She later said she “abhorred” the attacks and that her husband’s mind had been poisoned by radicals.
Kenyan police are also hunting for a woman called Habib Ghani, from Hounslow, West London, who left Britain several years ago to live in Africa.
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British terror suspect still on the run
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