Pennsylvania Woman Charged With Recruiting Violent Jihadist Fighters
March 9, 2010 – 9:36 pmTuesday , March 09, 2010 A Pennsylvania woman known to authorities as "JihadJane" has been charged in federal court with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters to carry out murders and violent attacks overseas. The woman, Colleen R. LaRose, was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft, according to the indictment, unsealed Monday. Sources tell Fox News the "Swedish citizen" who "JihadJane" was allegedly looking to kill is Lars Vilks, who drew one of the controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoons. There was a series of arrests in Ireland earlier Tuesday that are reportedly connected to LaRose's case. In September of 2007 Al Qaeda offered a bounty for the murder of Viks. LaRose and five unindicted co-conspirators are accused of recruiting men ...
