Brit widow training IS' special squad of female suicide bombers: Intelligence

Intelligence experts have reportedly revealed that a British widow and the daughter of a former soldier, who joined the Islamic State (IS) earlier this year, is training a special squad of female suicide bombers within the group.

Samantha Lewthwaite is one of the most influential, powerful women in the network and is so highly regarded in the terror group that she is known as the "Special One" or the "important woman," reported The Daily Star. According to intelligence sources, she is responsible for and for training and mentoring white converts to Islam who have volunteered to fight for the IS.

A source added that the 30-year-old woman's ability to manage the outfit's propaganda has earned her the top position within the group and remarked that she is a female version of Joseph Goebbels, the report said.

Lewthwaite was married to Germaine Lindsay, one of the four Islamist suicide bombers who was involved in the attack on the London transport network on 7 July 2005, killing 52 people.

She is involved in a number of other terror activities and is wanted in Kenya for possessing explosives and conspiring to commit a felony dating back to December 2011.