Desc: The White Widow: Searching for Samantha: Directed by Adam Wishart. With Samantha Lewthwaite, Adam Wishart, Simon Davis, Shaick Abdullah El Faisal. In September 2013 the Islamic al-Shabaab attacked and killed 67 people at the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. "The White Widow" Samantha Lewthwaite, born 1983 in Northern Ireland, UK, was suspected of being mastermind of the operation.