This is how Daily Star reported the tragic incident of yesterday morning at the Nyanya park and the lone person behind the bombing:
A huge
explosion ripped through a busy bus station in the country's capital, Abuja,
during the peak rush-hour this morning.
The enormous
blast destroyed FORTY buses and left a sickening trail of death and destruction
as fuel tanks on nearby vehicles also exploded amid the heat of the blast.
But while
nobody has officially claimed responsibility, security sources fear the bombing
may have been a REVENGE attack for the death of al-Shabaab terror chief
Makaburi, aka Sheikh Abubakar Shariff Ahmed - Lewthwaite's MENTOR - just two
weeks ago.
Lewthwaite, the infamous widow of 7/7 bomber Germaine
Lindsay, is on the run in Africa with three children.
The daughter of a British Army soldier, she is already on Interpol's
Most Wanted list in connection with SEVEN murders as well as the siege of the
Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya in September last year which left 67
dead and nearly 200 injured.
She was known to be 'extremely close' to Makaburi, who coordinated
the Westgate atrocity.
A senior security source said agents across Africa were on
high alert after the assassination of Makaburi - reportedly by the UK and US
funded Kenyan Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) 14 days ago.
The source said: "Makaburi was always believed to be at
the very top of the hierarchy of terror organisation al-Shabaab.
"Intelligence suggests he introduced Samantha Lewthwaite
to many influential figures within the al-Shabaab network. He guided her on her
path to Jihad.
"His murder was seen as yet another act of war."
The source added that Lewthwaite and her associates
"wanted revenge".
Lewthwaite, 30, is believed to be in Nigeria, Kenya or
Somalia, where Islamist terror networks are closely linked, making it far
easier for her to evade detection than in Europe.
The world's most wanted woman was reportedly caught at a
checkpoint in Nigeria just six months ago - but managed to bribe her way to
freedom.
It is thought she commands enormous loyalty and power as a
white convert, female jihadist, having proved her worth in previous attacks.
As both a mother and widow of a 7/7 bomber, she also provides
the groups with invaluable propaganda.
Local police
have linked today's(yesterday’s) bombing to the Boko Haram terrorist network,
which has been threatening to attack the Nigerian capital.
Last year
Boko Haram boasted of'merging' with both al-Shabaab AND Al-Qaeda to form a
pan-African terror super-network.
Together,
the groups control a vast, arid area known as 'Sahelistan' - thousands of miles
of sub-Saharan land which stretches from Senegal in west Africa to Somalia in
the east.
This
'ungovernable' terrain has become a sanctuary for Islamist militants plotting
atrocities in Africa and across the world.
The
commander of the U.S. military’s Africa Command General Carter Ham said the
groups now share money, explosives and even train together.
He said:
"Each of those three organisations is by itself a dangerous and worrisome
threat.
"What
really concerns me is that they are coordinating and synchronising their
efforts.
"That
is a real problem for us and for African security in general."
The White
Widow, who has been on the run since January 2012, got her grim nickname after
husband Germaine Lindsay blew up a London Tube train in the 7/7 bombings in
2005. Fifty six people were killed and more than 700 injured.
Interpol has
issued a rare 'Red Notice' for the White Widow's arrest.
Lewthwaite,
from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, is believed to have widely used the alias
‘Natalie Webb’ and travelled on a forged South African passport. She is now
officially being hunted by 190 countries and is one of the most wanted
international fugitives in the world.
Police
seized her laptop in 2011 and found detailed plans of how to build bombs and
evidence she was planning multiple terrorist attacks both in Africa and the
West.
She has also
been linked to grenade attacks at non-Muslim places of worship in Africa and a
terrorist attack on western football fans watching Euro 2012 in the Jericho bar
in Mombasa.
Head of
Interpol Ronald Noble said: "There is a global ‘tripwire’ for this
fugitive.
"All
190 member countries are aware of the danger posed by this woman, not just
across the region but also worldwide."
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