Written by By Mike Pflanz | From The Telegrapgh

Samantha Lewthwaite, the “White Widow” of one of the London July 7 bombers, later married into a Kenyan family connected to one of al-Qaeda’s most notorious commanders in East Africa, the Telegraph can reveal.

Her sister-in-law’s husband was Musa Dheere, who was shot dead at a roadblock in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, alongside Fazul Mohammed, mastermind of terror attacks on Kenya’s coast in 2002 that were among al-Qaeda’s earliest raids.

Lewthwaite, who is charged with plotting a bombing campaign across Kenya at Christmas 2011, was so close to her new family that she fled to their house the night Kenyan police broke up her terror cell.

Her husband was a Kenyan named Fahmi Jamal Salim, with whom she is thought to have the two youngest of her four children. Salim’s sister is Nassim divorced Mr Dheere a year before his death.

Lewthwaite met her future husband in South Africa in 2008, where they were introduced to each other by Abdullah al-Faisal, a radical Muslim hate preacher who had previously been imprisoned for four years at Long Lartin prison on Worcestershire.

Lewthwaite had previously visited him while he was still in jail, despite the authorities apparently being aware of their respective backgrounds. Mr al-Faisal told a BBC Panorama documentary about Lewthwaite, due to air on Wednesday, that he arranged her marriage to the Kenyan because he “knew her taste”.

She wanted a “young man of a different race, preferably the black race, who was very handsome and very strong in the Muslim faith”, Mr al-Faisal told the BBC.

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