On the link posted by the OP, wasabi, it said,
"The police officers told Ms Farah, 34, to Google her mother's name if she wanted to know why she was in trouble."
That is exactly what I just did and guess what I found out?
What I found was a lady with the same name Fadumo Jama and also with the same nom de guerre "mama Shabab" with similar roles within Alshabab organisation of running " a safe house for Western fighters" for them. But the media in Canada claim that this Somali lady is Canadian while the one covered on the OP's British newspaper article claims her to be British. Are they two different Alshabab mama's with the same name? Somalida meel kasto baay iska dhiibtaa iyagaa baasaboor kala haysta, ma sidaas baa sheekadu? I'm bewildered and flabbergasted with this mama Alshabab. Let us ask Dr Yalahow, if they are the same woman who he claimed to be his maternal side relative.
Meet the Canadian woman who runs a safe house for Al Qaeda suicide bombers
Intelligence agencies allege the woman runs a safe house in Somalia for Western fighters recruited into Al Shabab, the militant Islamic organization.
NAIROBI—A Canadian woman at the centre of Somalia’s Al Qaeda is known among the intelligence agencies that track her and the foreign militants who praise her simply as “Mama Shabab.”
It is an honorific title for former Toronto resident Fadumo Jama, who intelligence agencies allege is the den mother of al Shabab who runs a safe house for Western fighters recruited into the militant Islamic organization.
While she moves frequently, using forged passports from African countries, it is believed she has operated a home in the Somali town of Merca for at least four years and has supported American and European recruits in the weeks before their suicide bombing missions.
Jama is a well-known figure to intelligence agencies in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Somalia, yet her name does not appear in any public documents and she has not been charged.
But a Toronto Star investigation based on interviews with security, intelligence and law enforcement officials, in addition to leaders in the Somali diaspora here and abroad, reveal a portrait of a female leader vital to the organization.
Her role facilitating Western recruits exemplifies the increasing importance of women to the Shabab — although her position of authority is rare, as most females are recruited only as wives for the fighters or suicide bombers.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2012/ ... mbers.html