The widow of a July 7 London bomber has blamed "radical mosques" for "poisoning her innocent" husband's mind.
Twenty one-year-old Samantha Lewthwaite, wife of suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay, said she wanted to remember the man she loved, but added, "the day will come when I'll have to tell (our children) what he did."
Samantha, who has has since given birth to a daughter, told The Sun newspaper that "trips to radical mosques had
poisoned the innocent, naive and simple" man's mind.
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Lindsay, she said, turned from a "peaceful man" into someone whose character she did not recognise, after meeting a group of men at a prayer meeting in a mosque last year.
Samantha said he began disappearing for days at a time visiting mosques around the country. She assumed Lindsay visited a mosque on July 7, when he detonated the day's most devastating bomb on a Piccadilly Line train killing 26 people.
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"I saw the images on TV and got very upset," she said.
Samantha, the daughter of a British soldier, reported her husband missing following the attacks.
Her world collapsed when police later showed her CCTV footage of him on his way to carrying out his attack, she said.
"What on earth had changed so much so quickly to turn him from loving husband and father to a man who could carry a bomb on to a Tube train and kill."
Samantha said she believed her partner could not have left without saying farewell to their 17-month-old son Abdullah.
"In the morning, I found he had left the keys on a table downstairs. He obviously had no more use for them."
The July 7 bombings had killed 56 people, including the 4 suicide bombers.
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