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Thu 03 Mar 2010Woman indicted in plot to kill Swedish cartoonist
A GRAND jury in Pennsylvania has indicted Colleen Renee LaRose, a US citizen, in the same plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist in which seven Muslims in Ireland were allegedly involved.
Ms LaRose is accused of using the aliases “Fatima LaRose” and “Jihad Jane” to contact Muslim extremists on the internet in 2008 and 2009. In her first posting on YouTube, in June 2008, “JihadJane” said she was “desperate to do something to help” suffering Muslims.
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