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Widows lair is found
7/7 wife 'held at villa... but bent cop let her go'
EXCLUSIVE
by NEIL SYSON in Mombasa
Published: Today at 02:47
THE 7/7 bomber's widow being hunted by police was FREED by cops who found her in Kenya, it was claimed last night.
A woman believed to be Samantha Lewthwaite, who was married to suicide killer Jermaine Lindsay, was held in a night-time raid on her home.
The woman using a fake South African passport under the name Natalie Faye Webb was said to be known as the boss of a terror cell plotting a bomb atrocity.
She allegedly doled out tens of thousands of US dollars to Islamic fanatics from a house in the coastal city of Mombasa.
Sources said she was hauled from her bed by a team of 27 officers at her upmarket villa. They were acting on info from Brit Jermaine Grant, 29, who was arrested days earlier and is now behind bars facing terrorism charges.
He told cops quizzing him: "You should be arresting the boss" and gave them details of addresses she used. He also said she had come from Somalia, where she had been giving bomb-making lessons.
Escape Grant, formerly of Newham, East London, identified her as Lewthwaite, whose husband killed 26 at King's Cross in the 2005 attacks in London in which 52 died.
But when officers found her she was let go and managed to escape across the border into Tanzania, The Sun can reveal. Officials claim she had already left when cops raided her home on December 29 possibly after a tip-off.
But a source said the officers including special forces, intelligence operatives and anti-terror cops found her at home.
She gave another fake name but the team were convinced they had the right person.
The source said a senior official took the woman to a flat nearby.
It was said to be part of a "safe house" network run by al-Shabaab, Islamic fundamentalists waging an al-Qaeda-backed guerilla war in Somalia.
The flat was allegedly used as a "bank" to fund bomb- ing projects.
The insider said: "There was talk she'd been taken to capital Nairobi for questioning, then stories she'd escaped to Tanzania, where the anti-terror unit believe she now is.
"I can't say if there was any connection between a visit to the 'bank house' and her disappearance but the police force here has a reputation of being corrupt."
Ammunition and a smashed laptop were found at the villa after the raid.
Mum-of-three Lewthwaite, 28, a Muslim convert from Aylesbury, Bucks, wed Lindsay in 2002.
She is wanted in connection with a suspected terrorist plot in Africa. She is believed to be on the run with Brit Habib Saleh Ghani, formerly of Hounslow, West London, who is allegedly linked to bomb plots in Mombasa.
SOURCE: THE SUN