Kenya is investigating reports that British terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite – known as the “White Widow” – has been sighted in the country.<\/p>\n
Reports say an unknown woman, possibly Ms Lewthwaite, was given a police escort to visit a Kenyan army base in Somalia before disappearing.<\/p>\n
She is accused of links to Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, which has attacked Kenya several times.<\/p>\n
Ms Lewthwaite’s husband died in a 2005 suicide attack.<\/p>\n
Her husband Germaine Lindsay was one of the four bombers who carried out the 7 July bombings in London that year in which 52 people were killed and hundreds more injured.<\/p>\n
Different identity<\/strong><\/p>\n Kenyan police officers in the coastal town of Lamu provided an armed escort to a white woman who disappeared after her attempts to enter Somalia were blocked by immigration officials.<\/p>\n Well-placed security sources have told the BBC they have reliable information that Ms Lewthwaite is in the country and they have launched a massive operation to find her.<\/p>\n But Lamu Police Commander Leonard Omollo told the AFP news agency the woman had been identified as a Spanish tourist who had since returned home, without giving further details.<\/p>\n Kenyan army spokesman Willy Wesonga has confirmed that a team of detectives is investigating whether the woman was Ms Lewthwaite and, if it was her, why she intended to visit the Kenyan army camp.<\/p>\n After last year’s attack on the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi, Kenya sought an international warrant for her arrest.<\/p>\n She was reported to have been linked to the attack but this was not mentioned on the warrant.<\/p>\n