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White Widow wrote love poem to Osama

A blood-stirring ode to Osama bin Laden has been found on the computer of the White Widow – along with evidence of her weight loss worries and apparent desire for hair like singer Taylor Swift.

The clumsy poetry and vanity projects were found alongside the murderous Islamic terrorist’s research into bomb-making.

The elusive Samantha Lewthwaite, now wanted in connection to the devastating attack on the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, wrote the poem while on the run in east Africa.

“Oh sheik osama my father, my brother. My love for you is like no other. Oh Sheik Osama now that you are gone/ The muslims must wake up they must be strong,” she writes, apparently ignoring grammatical rules.

While her literary abilities may be suspect, her adoration for the founder of al Qaeda is not.

Lewthwaite, a 29-year-old mother of two, was married to suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay who detonated a device during the devastating 7/7 attack on London’s public transport system.

Now known as the White Widow, she was present in Nairobi at the time of last month’s attack on the Westgate Shopping mall by Somali terror group al Shabab, which killed 67. Some 23 people are still missing.

The 34-line poem was found on a laptop which belonged to the long-time fugitive. Sky News reports it was recovered after a raid at her house in the Kenyan city of Mombassa.

Samantha Lewthwaite lived in a building adjacent to the Oakpark Apartments, seen here, which are near the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya.Reuters

In it, she commits to continuing bin Laden’s fight against the West.

“Us we are left to continue what you started. To seek the victory until we are martyred. To instill terror into kuffar.”

Her last word refers to non-Muslims and means “non-believers.”

A flash drive recovered at the scene indicates that the White Widow spent eight years researching ingredients for explosives and how to assemble bombs.

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While completing the Mujahideen Explosives Handbook was apparently at the top of her computing list, it appears Lewthwaite was also concerned about her appearance.

An analysis of the hard drive and the web browser’s logs revealed she had searched a large number of weight loss sites.

A hint as to her vanity and perhaps a disguise was a bookmark to a site which demonstrated how to have hair like singer Taylor Swift.

Several pictures of Lewthwaite, including one with her children, were also recovered, police said.

Reports state she had been living in a flat overlooking the Westgate shopping centre at the time of the attack. She had rented the unit under the name of Nathalie Faye Webb, a South African passport holder.

Here is the full un-edited text of the poem recovered from Lewthwaite’s computer:

Oh sheik osama my father, my brother

My love for you is like no other

Oh Sheik Osama now that you are gone

The muslims must wake up they must be strong

I know that you are in a better place

That Allah has bestowed upon you grace.

Us we are left to continue what you started.

To seek the victory until we are martyred.

To instill terror into kuffar.

Until the world is governed by la illaha illala.

Oh sheik osama no (sic) this for true

My heart will not find peace until all muslims do.

Everything you had you gave for Allah

No surrender will take us all far.

Your life an example of how we should be.

Oh Muslims listen to our beloved sheik’s words

Let not his struggle and efforts go unheard

Revive what he started and strive to success

Then maybe we can be raised with the best.

Oh sheik Osama we are jealous of you to be of those who the promise is true

The promise is truth which is binding if only we knew

Verily Allah has purchased the lives of the believers that theirs shall be paradise.

They fight in Allahs cause, so they kill and are killed.

It is a promise binding on Allah in taurat, injill and Qur’an

And who is truer to his covenant than Allah?

As for our enemies our words will be less.

You picked the wrong army to contest.

Al Qaeda are stronger and fiercer than ever.

Thinking in the end you are stupid it will NEVER

Be over until the day that we see our lands returned and governed by He Allah the almighty, whose law is complete.

So make your plans and He is the best of planners.

Their was no victory for you Mr Obama, the honour is his on martyred Osama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This story originally appeared on News.com.au.