[Garowe] Kenya is set to deport a convicted terrorist to Britannia, Daily Mail reports, with preliminary investigations showing that the accused is closely connected to the famous "White Widow" Samantha Lewthwaite, ...daughter of a British soldier who decided being a jihadi gun moll was more romantic, and mother of four. After converting to Islam as a schoolgirl, she worked her way bed by bed husband after husband up the Al Shabaab and Al Qaeda organizations. Though decidedly female, she reportedly was the key organizer of various jihadi plots in England and the Horn of Africa, and may be responsible for as many as 400 deaths. Her husbands, in order, were Germaine Lindsay, former Kenyan naval officer Abdi Wahid, Al Qaeda henchman Fahmi Jamal Salim, whose brother-in-law was al-Qaeda recruiter Musa Dheere, then Somali warlord/Al Shabaab big turban 'Sheikh Hassan' (Hassan Maalim Ibrahim), whom she deserted for Yemen only last year...
who is linked to several attacks.Jermaine Grant, 40,
...a Jamaican-Brit convert to Islam and habitué of the notorious Brixton Mosque, he is believed to have become radicalized in the same British prison as "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, who claimed allegiance to Al Qaeda and also worshipped at Brixton Mosque. Mr. Grant then headed to Somalia to join the glorious jihad...
faces removal from Kenya after serving nine years in jail for possessing bomb-making materials and forging immigration papers. He was tried and convicted of planning attacks against hotels in the country.The decision to release him and subsequent deportation to Britannia could raise questions about the safety of the European nation, which has been keen on fighting terror. It is not clear if Kenya has contacted London ahead of the execution of the plan.
We don’t want him, you can have him, he’s too jihad for us...
Grant was prosecuted in Kenya after police found chemicals, switches, and a bomb-making manual in a flat he shared with Lewthwaite, whose husband Germaine Lindsay was one of the four jacket wallahs who together killed 52 people in London in 2005, Daily Mail notes.The Jamaican-born British convert to Islam went kaboom on a London Underground train on 7/7/2005.
When police swooped on the flat in 2012, Lewthwaite had fled, escaping just minutes earlier after Grant allegedly warned her with a text message, saying: ’The lions are inside. One of them is very watchful like a bird watches a stone.’ She is still on the lam.Details in possession of the security teams indicate that Grant was born in Newham, East London. According to reports, Grant had plans to unleash terror attacks on hotels frequented by tourists in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa. Prosecutors also linked him to al-Shabaab
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...murderous Moslems.
A team of counter-terrorism officers from Scotland Yard flew to Kenya to assist in his prosecution. Met Detective Inspector John Reilly told Grant’s trial in 2014: ’We know that the chemicals found at Grant’s house were designed to make a bomb. We believe the gang was at the end of its preparations.’
Grant was convicted of possession of bomb-making materials but was acquitted in 2019 of ’conspiracy to commit a felony’ in relation to the terror plot. Now he faces a court in Kenya on Wednesday to decide whether he should be deported.
Prosecutor Bernard Ngiri has filed an application to kick him out of the country as an ’unwanted immigrant’ after he was released from prison on June 24. The High Court will determine his deportation and it is highly likely that the application will be granted.
Kenya is fighting terror groups mainly the al-Shabaab who have encroached on the country from neighboring Somalia. The group has heightened attacks in the Northern Frontier Districts and Lamu, leading to the delay in reopening the Kenya-Somalia border.
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