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The White Widow Who Caused Over 400 Deaths
Samantha Lewthwaite is the world’s most wanted female terrorist.
7/7/2005 was a dark day for the world — and particularly so for the city of London. London witnessed a terror plot that comprised of four co-ordinated suicide bombings across the city, that claimed a total of 52 lives.
One of the four suicide bombers was Germaine Lindsay, a 19-yr-old man who caused the maximum number of deaths — 26 or half the total tally of deaths in the bombings. According to the BBC report,
The most deadly attack occurred on the Piccadilly Line between King’s Cross and Russell Square.
Germaine Lindsay detonated his bomb next to the rear set of double doors in the front carriage of the packed train, just after it pulled out of King’s Cross station. Twenty-six people were killed.
In the world of the extremists, Germaine Lindsay had achieved martyrdom, but in the real world, he had caused the untimely death of 26 innocent people, in one of the worst terrorist attacks that the world had seen.
Germaine was married to Samantha Lewthwaite, a fellow convert to Islam, who condemned her husband’s actions and claimed to know nothing about the plot. According to a Telegraph report,
Ms Lewthwaite, 22, from…
