Numerous news sources are reporting (read: probably “speculating”) that the Kenyan mall massacre was masterminded by someone the British tabloid press seems to have dubbed “the White Widow.” Specifically, one Samantha Lewthwaite, a 29-year-old British woman who converted to Islam and married a Muslim feller who thought it would be a fun lark to blow himself up in the 7/7 attacks. Apparently in the years since her husband fast-tracked himself to Náströnd, the “White Widow” has taken it upon herself to become quite the troublemaker. It seems she *may* have been in the mall running the show and got killed in the process, or it may be that a female hostage was killed and dressed up in the uniform of evil to serve as a distraction, or it may be another female jihadi entirely.
If there’s anything worse than an adherent to a whackadoodle ideology, it’s a recent convert to said whackadoodle ideology.