Cyprus on ‘White Widow’ terrorist list as she target holidaymaker for attacks this summer

The world’s most wanted female terrorist is recruiting suicide bombers to target holidaymakers this summer and Cyprus is said to be among a group of Mediterranean tourist destinations targeted for terrorist attacks.

The planned attacks are said to be orchestrated by Samantha Lewthwaite, known as the ‘White Widow’ – the world’s most wanted female terrorist.

Citing unnamed UK intelligence sources, The Daily Star on Sunday said Cyprus, the Spanish Costas, Greece, Turkey and the Canary Islands “have all been identified as potential targets – along with resorts in the UK.”

The paper said UK agents have obtained intelligence showing Lewthwaite, 34, enrolled dozens of women – including white converts to Islam like herself – to strike at hotspots across Europe.

The shocking details came from encrypted emails, phone calls and via foreign intelligence services.

Now MI5 believes fanatics from Isis and al-Qaida want to launch a so-called ‘spectacular’ attack over the summer, the paper reported.

The intelligence sources went on to say that Lewthwaite “is feared to have recruited up to 30 terrorists, who have been taught how to build suicide vests and choose their own targets”.

She has mentored dozens of female terrorists and favours white converts to Islam because she feels they attract less suspicion by the security services’, they added.

Samantha Lewthwaite, 34, was dubbed ‘The White Widow’ after her extremist husband killed himself and 26 others in the July 7, 2005 London suicide bombings.

Now the mother-of-four, who grew up in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire and converted to Islam as a teenager and later married Jamaican-born Germaine Lindsay, is trying to gather a team of fanatics to attack popular resorts across the globe.

The Daily Star said the race was on to “execute” Lewthwaite “before she can create mayhem throughout Europe”.