‘White Widow’ at Large as Governments Bungle Cooperation
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Kenyan investigators knew two years ago that they wanted to question Samantha Lewthwaite, the 29-year-old widow of one of the suicide bombers who struck the London transit system in 2005.
They ran into her for the first time that December, while probing a foiled attack on tourist sites in Mombasa, when she convinced them she was a tourist. Within days, investigators realized their mistake, a prosecutor said.