Americans and a British woman were amidst the terrorists who attacked the shopping centre, murdering more than 60 people, Kenya's foreign minister said today
Amina Mohamed said the attackers included "two or three Americans" and "one Brit". She told the PBS NewsHour programme that the Americans were 18 to 19 years vintage, of Somali or Arab origin and dwelled "in Minnesota and one other location" in the US.
The woman is believed to be Lewthwaite, from Banbridge, who is currently wanted in Kenya on terror allegations.
A Muslim alter, she had been dubbed the "white widow" because of her marriage to Jermaine Lindsay, who blustered up an below ground train at King's Cross in London in 2005, killing 26 people.
She has been on the run in east Africa for two years after allegedly contriving to strike Western goals in Kenya.
Her dad was a British soldier dispatched in the North throughout the problems, who married a localizedizedized woman.
Lewthwaite altered to Islam in her teenage years and subsequent wed Lindsay, one of the 7/7 London bombers.
She then married another jihadist while on the run in Africa where she became a foremost of the al-Shabaab terror grouping.
Lewthwaite later organised the assassination of a terror competitor in an strike that also asserted the life of her second married man, Habib Ghani. She did not even accept the fact he had been murdered.
Family associates in Banbridge yesterday said the promotion surrounding Lewthwaite in recent years had deeply affected her grandmother who inhabits near the village centre.
Elizabeth Allen is said to be shocked by the revelations considering her grand-daughter. It is appreciated the tension on Ms Allen, who is in her late 80s, is such she was hospitalised lately.
The frail pensioner previously told how she was handed out with a panic alarm with which she was to contact policemanmanman if Lewthwaite ever made communicate with her.
Kenyan security forces assaulted al Qaida-linked terrorists in the upmarket mall for a third day in what they said was a last impel to rescue the last couple of hostages in a siege that has left at smallest 62 people dead.
