{"id":46853,"date":"2021-11-08T17:27:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T17:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=46853"},"modified":"2021-11-08T17:27:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T17:27:41","slug":"uae-reaches-milestone-with-lowest-recorded-number-of-covid-19-cases-since-march-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=46853","title":{"rendered":"UAE reaches milestone with lowest recorded number of COVID-19 cases since March \u201820"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"84\">\n<p>\n\tLONDON: One of the UK\u2019s most wanted terrorists, Samantha Lewthwaite, is believed to be in Yemen fighting government forces, The Sun has reported.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cLewthwaite\u2019s last known location is Yemen,\u201d an anonymous source told the British newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLewthwaite \u2014 also sometimes known by her \u201cWhite Widow\u201d moniker \u2014 has been linked to a slew of terrorist attacks in the UK, Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHer husband was one of the suicide bombers who attacked London on July 7, 2005, killing 56.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLewthwaite, 37, was linked to a 2013 attack in Kenya that saw five Britons and 66 others killed.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSecurity services also believe her to be behind other atrocities, including the 2015 killing of nearly 150 people by Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab in Kenya, The Sun reported.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIts source said: \u201cTrying to get intelligence there is as tough as in Syria when the IS (Daesh) regime was at its height. There\u2019s virtually no Western presence in Yemen because it\u2019s so dangerous. And in the absence of evidence to the contrary, it\u2019s assumed she\u2019s alive and being supported by extremists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tShe is now understood to have recruited female suicide bombers in Yemen for attacks against government forces, paying their families around $4,000 per attack.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLewthwaite is also thought to have recruited boys as young as 15 for suicide attacks, plying them with drugs, including heroin, in order to carry them out.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAn Interpol Red Notice warrant was issued for her arrest after the 2013 attack in Kenya, but her capture has proved difficult as she has been moving from Africa to the Middle East working alongside terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLewthwaite converted to Islam as a teenager after being exposed to the teachings of extremist cleric Trevor Forrest, who was jailed and subsequently deported to Jamaica for inciting hatred and supporting terrorist groups, including Daesh.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: One of the UK\u2019s most wanted terrorists, Samantha Lewthwaite, is believed to be in Yemen fighting government forces, The Sun has reported. \u201cLewthwaite\u2019s last known location is Yemen,\u201d an anonymous source told the British newspaper. Lewthwaite \u2014 also sometimes known by her \u201cWhite Widow\u201d moniker \u2014 has been linked to a slew of terrorist&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}