The indictment says that Ms LaRose posted a YouTube video as JihadJane in June 2008 saying she was "desperate to do something somehow to help" Muslims.
Youtube? but of course... isn't that why the Jewish Internet Defense Force was trying to get google to pull down these videos?
Within months, she was in contact with jihadists in Europe and Asia and agreed to marry a South Asian man to get him into Europe. In March last year the same man told her via e-mail to go to Sweden, find Mr Vilks "and kill him". According to the indictment, Mr LaRose replied: "i will make this my goal till i achieve it or die trying." Ms LaRose is said to have used the name JihadJane to create a MySpace page on which she described herself as a woman who had "reverted to Islam".
"I live in Pennsylvania, originally from Texas. I have recently (a couple months) reverted to Islam and I can safely say that of all the things I have ever done in my lifetime, becoming Muslim is what I am the proudest of," she wrote.
the artist, Lars Vilks.
According to American media, the 40-year-old had internet contact with at least one of the seven people arrested in Ireland.
The connection between Jihad Jane and the seven, four men and three women, has been confirmed by two US officials to The Philadelphia Enquirer and by a spokesperson for the Irish police to news agency TT. The nature of the link is not yet known.
According to the charges in her indictment published on Tuesday, Colleen LaRose is suspected of "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."
