International terrorist Samantha Lewthwaite, popularly known as WHITE WIDOW, whose photo is seen here, may be the terror mastermind behind yesterday’s horrific attack in Nyanya, a suburb of Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, which left 75 dead and over 200 wounded.

“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,” reports Daily Star of Britain.

Continuing, the paper says: “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.”