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Kenya offers fully-paid holiday to US teenager mistaken for 'white widow'
Source: The Guardian
Kenya offers fully-paid holiday to US teenager mistaken for 'white widow'
David Smith, Africa correspondent
theguardian.com, Wednesday 17 September 2014 05.41 EDT
Kenya's government has offered an all-expenses-paid holiday to a 15-year-old US teenager and her family after police mistook her for Samantha Lewthwaite, the British terrorist suspect nicknamed the white widow.
The teenager was "harassed by police in Mlolongo", outside the capital Nairobi, "on accusations of looking like" Lewthwaite, the government said.
Joseph Ole Lenku , Kenya's interior minister, announced that "the government will sponsor a fully-paid holiday for the family" to make up for the incident and that police were also investigating.
Lewthwaite was married to Germaine Lindsay, one of four Islamist suicide bombers who attacked the London transport network on 7 July 2005, killing 52 people.
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David Smith, Africa correspondent
theguardian.com, Wednesday 17 September 2014 05.41 EDT
Kenya's government has offered an all-expenses-paid holiday to a 15-year-old US teenager and her family after police mistook her for Samantha Lewthwaite, the British terrorist suspect nicknamed the white widow.
The teenager was "harassed by police in Mlolongo", outside the capital Nairobi, "on accusations of looking like" Lewthwaite, the government said.
Joseph Ole Lenku , Kenya's interior minister, announced that "the government will sponsor a fully-paid holiday for the family" to make up for the incident and that police were also investigating.
Lewthwaite was married to Germaine Lindsay, one of four Islamist suicide bombers who attacked the London transport network on 7 July 2005, killing 52 people.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/17/kenya-offers-fully-paid-holiday-us-teenager-samantha-lewthwaite