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Reporting from Washington - Using e-mail, YouTube videos, phony travel documents and a burning desire to kill "or die trying," a middle-aged American woman from Pennsylvania helped recruit a network for suicide attacks and other terrorist strikes in Europe and Asia, according to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed Tuesday.
Colleen R. LaRose, who dubbed herself "Jihad Jane," was so intent on waging jihad, authorities said, that she traveled to Sweden to kill an artist in a way that would frighten "the whole Kufar [nonbeliever] world."
With blond hair and green eyes, the 46-year
Originally posted by freetree64
What's next, I wonder, it seem's as though the alleged terrorists are falling out of the woodwork these days. I can hardly believe the local news here reported that she used her alleged alias " Jihad Jane" to conduct business during this supposed criminal activity. Why would anyone take " jihad Jane "
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Michael L. Levy, the U.S. attorney in Philadelphia, said the case shows "the use terrorists can and do make" of communicating through e-mails and videos around the world." He called LaRose "yet another very real danger lurking on the Internet."
"Terrorists are looking for Americans to join them in their cause," Levy said, adding that LaRose "shatters any lingering thought that we can spot a terrorist based on appearance."
But her alleged motivation was not completely clear Tuesday night.
"She appeared to be one of those people who spend a lot of time online and go to all these radical websites and chat rooms," one source said.