White Widow's SA baby

Samantha Lewthwaite, the British terrorism suspect known as the "White Widow", gave birth to her fourth child at an upmarket private health clinic in Johannesburg where she paid cash and gave a false address.

Lewthwaite, then aged 26, registered at the Genesis clinic under one of her pseudonyms, Asmaa Shahidah Bint-Andrews, and attended four midwife appointments before her daughter Surajah's delivery on July 24 2010.

She was accompanied to each appointment by a man she described as her husband and who was "attentive and caring" towards her. In the birth entry, his name is listed as Adam Omar, but her midwife believes his name was Abdi.

The Daily Telegraph was told this week that Surajah's father is Abdi Wahid, a former naval officer from Kenya who defected to al-Shabab, the Somali terror group to which Lewthwaite has also been linked.

In pictures published for the first time this week, Lewthwaite, the widow of "July 7" London suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay, was shown sitting in a South African hospital bed crad-ling Surajah, with a man, believed to be Wahid, next to her.

Lewthwaite, a UK soldier's daughter from Aylesbury, Bucks, is believed to have first travelled to South Africa in 2008.

The picture was taken in the Genesis clinic in Saxonwold. It has eight private rooms with facilities more commonly found in an exclusive boutique hotel.

Her use of the clinic seems at odds with her alleged alliance to an Islamist terrorist group intent on attacking Western targets.

Lewthwaite's midwife, Lesley Rose, said the pregnant woman claimed to have been referred by a friend.

"She came to me quite late in her pregnancy," she said. "She told me she was from the UK and had three kids already. She said she wanted a midwife-assisted delivery because that's how they do it in the UK."

She said Lewthwaite had worn a niqab on the four occasions she saw her but removed it for their consultations, which she attended with her husband and her children, including her eight-year-old daughter, Ruqayyah, who wore a hijab.

"I don't remember the exact name of the husband," she said.

"The name Abdi sounds very familiar to me. He definitely wasn't called Adam Omar."

Rose said there was little about the couple to suggest their alleged terrorist links.

"She was a nice girl and we chatted. I said she was very young to have four children. She told me she was a housewife and always had been. As I recall, she came from a broken home and that was why she converted to Islam.

"They weren't affectionate, but he was attentive and caring with her, like any expectant father."

The couple settled the clinic's R6000 bill in cash.

Under the name Natalie Faye Webb, Lewthwaite was registered at four addresses in the Mayfair area. But she gave the clinic an address in Melville.

Yesterday, a man who said he had lived at the address for four years, said he had never heard of Lewthwaite.

The property's owner, who lives in Europe, said he was "outraged" that she had used his address. - Daily Telegraph