"LaRose was arrested on October 16, 2009, in Philadelphia. In a court appearance before a federal magistrate on October 17, she agreed to pretrial detention, but did not enter a plea. She was kept in custody in Philadelphia without bail until her indictment was unsealed, to protect another investigation. LaRose's indictment charged that along with five unindicted co-conspirators (in South Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and the U.S.), she used the Internet to communicate with potential jihadists outside the U.S., conspired to commit murder, and financed terrorism. Among those involved in the plot was Mohammad Hassan Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Pakistani"
"to wage violent Jihad and of plotting to murder the Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who had drawn a cartoon of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. She was arraigned and initially pleaded not guilty on March 18, 2010. She faced a maximum penalty of life in prison, and a $1-million fine. On February 1, 2011, she pleaded guilty to all charges against her. She was convicted on January 6, 2014, and sentenced to 10 years. LaRose was born in Michigan and grew up in Detroit. She has one sister, Pam, who is three years older. Their parents divorced when Colleen was 3."
"immigrant living with Asperger syndrome; Khalid, the youngest person ever to be prosecuted for terrorism offences in the US, eventually joined the Quilliam Foundation to fight radicalization. LaRose was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to the FBI, and attempted identity theft. Swedish authorities said they were aware of the arrest before it happened. LaRose was arraigned on March 18, 2010, and pleaded not guilty to all four counts. United States magistrate judge Lynne Sitarski set her trial date for May 3, 2010; during the interim she"
"Afghanistan, Egypt, and Jordan as well as by the inter-governmental Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which also called for the Swedish government to take ""punitive actions"" against Vilks. Following this controversy, Vilks has been forced to live under police protection after having received several death threats, including a statement by the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq which has offered up to $150,000 for his assassination. In 2009, a failed plot to kill Vilks was hatched. Three U.S. citizens, Colleen LaRose (known as ""Jihad Jane""), Mohammad Hassas Khalid, and Jamie Paulin Ramirez, participated in the plot. On 9 March 2010,"
"praised the group, al-Shabab. Authorities said the two men were among a number of U.S. terrorism suspects inspired by al-Awlaki. He is believed to have helped inspire the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, the failed 2009 Christmas Day bombing, the failed 2010 Times Square bombing, and those convicted in the 2007 Fort Dix plot. The suspects were charged with conspiring to kill, maim, and kidnap people outside the U.S. The same law has been used in the 2010 charging of Colleen LaRose, otherwise known as Jihad Jane. If convicted, they could each face a sentence of life in prison, and fines"
"Vilks as a target; the Swedish artist who had outraged some Muslims by drawing a cartoon of Muhammad. LaRose was directed, on March 22, 2009, to go to Sweden, to find and kill Vilks to frighten ""the whole Kufar [non-believer] world"". According to her indictment, she responded in writing: ""I will make this my goal till I achieve it or die trying"". On July 1, LaRose allegedly posted an online solicitation for funds to support terrorism. The FBI contacted her and interviewed her on July 17, 2009, and she denied soliciting funds for terrorism, or using the online screen name"
"remained in federal custody. If convicted, she faced a maximum penalty of life in prison, and a $1-million fine. On February 1, 2011, LaRose changed her plea to all charges. She is confined to her cell often for 23 hours a day but has managed to become engaged to a fellow prisoner who promises to convert to Islam upon release. They met through ""talking on the bowls"", prison slang for scooping out toilet cell bowl water, calling and listening through the plumbing pipes. The same day as the unsealing of LaRose's indictment, four men and three women in their 20s"
"of flares falling from the F-16 from one to three. ""Reuters"" deleted all of the photographer's photos from its database. Its global pictures editor said: ""Manipulating photographs in this way is entirely unacceptable and contrary to all the principles consistently held by Reuters throughout its long and distinguished history."" In the Colleen LaRose (""Jihad Jane"") plot, Jawa Report members who had been tracking her comments and movements, including her raising funds for Pakistani militants through Twitter, alerted US authorities in July 2009. The FBI interviewed her on July 17, 2009, and arrested her on October 16, 2009, at Philadelphia International"
"of ""JihadJane."" Fearing the FBI might know more she immediately booked a flight to Europe. On August 23, 2009, LaRose stole Gorman's passport and flew to Western Europe. Prosecutors say the purpose of the trip was ""to live and train with jihadists, and to find and kill"" Vilks. She joined an online community hosted by Vilks on September 8. On September 30, she allegedly told an online co-conspirator that it would be ""an honor & great pleasure to die or kill"" for him, and promising that ""only death will stop me here that I am so close to the target!"""
"of Columbia, charging them with murdering a U.S. national outside the United States. Murders of Neta Sorek and Kristine Luken Kristine Luken was an American Christian who was murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack on December 18, 2010, while hiking with her friend Kay Wilson in the hills of Jerusalem. Despite multiple stab wounds, Wilson survived the attack; Luken's body was later found by Israeli police, bound and stabbed to death. The Palestinian terror cell that perpetrated the attack were later arrested. During the investigation, the cell members also confessed to the murder of Neta Sorek, whose stabbed body had"
"after learning of the plot against Vilks. LaRose, who went by the nickname """"Jihad Jane"""", is reported to have tipped off authorities herself, after she grew disenchanted with Damache. While he had impressed her, online, she was disappointed after meeting him in person, and seeing he had trouble paying his bills. LaRose returned to the USA, where she pled guilty and received a ten-year sentence. Damache was only charged with sending a threatening text message. Ireland considered, and rejected, an extradition request from the USA. Spain arrested Damache, in December 2015, at the request of the USA. The USA had"
"arrested in Waterford and Tramore and another man and woman at Ballincollig, near Cork. Garda Síochána (the Irish police force), which conducted the arrests with support from the counter-terror Special Detective Unit and the National Support Services, said the suspects range in age from mid 20s to late 40s. They (Garda Síochána) also added that throughout the investigation they had been ""working closely with law enforcement agencies in the United States and in a number of European countries"". The same day, Colleen R. LaRose from the Philadelphia, US, suburbs, had her federal indictment unsealed charging her with trying to recruit"
"attack, eighteen months after his initial arrest, Stafford was released on over $100,000 bond. Dylann Roof Dylann Storm Roof (born April 3, 1994) is an American white supremacist and mass murderer convicted for perpetrating the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015. During a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Roof killed nine people, all African Americans, including senior pastor and state senator Clementa C. Pinckney, and injured one other person. After several people identified Roof as the main suspect, he became the center of a manhunt that ended the morning after the shooting with his arrest in"
"and at an Interfaith Conference in Vienna there have been calls for the United States government to stop this event. Army General Lloyd Austin III, commander of US Central Command called Jones on September 9, 2013, to ask him cancel the event, however Jones declined. Police arrested Jones on September 11, 2013, before he could burn 2,998 Korans soaked with kerosene at a park in Polk County, Florida. He was charged with unlawfully conveying fuel and openly carrying a firearm. The charge of unlawfully conveying fuel, made against both Jones and Marvin Wayne Sapp, who was driving, was dismissed in"
"LaRose's federal indictment was unsealed charging her with trying to recruit Muslims to murder Vilks. On the same day, seven people were arrested in the Republic of Ireland over an alleged plot to assassinate Vilks. Police officers close to the investigation said those arrested were foreign-born Irish residents, mostly from Yemen and Morocco and had refugee status. Of the seven, three men and two women were arrested in Waterford and Tramore, and another man and woman at Ballincollig, near Cork. Garda Síochána (the Irish police force), which conducted the arrests with support from the National Support Services and the counter-terrorist"
"held at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center. On October 18, 2010, a federal judge gave their lawyers time to ""attempt to finalize a plea agreement."" In March 2011, they accepted a plea deal and admitted they wanted to try to join al-Shabab, an Al Qaeda-affiliated group and admitted they were part of a conspiracy to kill, maim, and kidnap. Mohamed Osman, 19 years old, of Bayonne, New Jersey, pleaded guilty on September 15, 2010, before Senior U.S. District Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise making materially false statements to members of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force who were investigating Alessa and"
"blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City."" Evan Kohlmann, in a February 2010 article entitled ""A Beacon for Extremists: The Ansar Al-Mujahideen Web Forum"", wrote that al-Khurasani was ""once a prominent online 'jihadist'"" who was ""written off as an eccentric until he blew himself up at a Central Intelligence Agency base in southeastern Afghanistan at the behest of the Pakistani Taliban."" Colleen LaRose, who was investigated for terrorism and was known by the online moniker ""Jihad Jane"" is one example of a jihobbyist. Adam Gadahn is another example of an American convert indicted on treason charges"
"by the nickname """"Jihad Jamie"""", and would eventually receive an 8-year sentence for playing a role in the plot to kill Vilks. Ramirez and Colleen LaRose, another American convert to Islam, traveled to Ireland to participate in the murder plot. Ramirez and Damache wed the day she arrived in Ireland. Both Ramirez and Damache were blonde, with blue eyes. Commentators would assert that Damache and his colleagues sought out blonde-haired, blue-eyed converts because, once radicalized, they would find it easy to cross borders without suspicion. Law enforcement officials in Ireland arrested Damache and six other individuals, in Ireland, in 2010,"
"would find it easy to cross borders without suspicion. Upon her arrival, she married Damache. Damache's assassination plans centered around LaRose. However LaRose is reported to have found Damache much less impressive in person, and to have tried to tip off the FBI herself, thinking they would pay to return her to the USA. LaRose did return to the United States, and openly acknowledged her role in the plot, implicating Damache and Ramirez. Ramizez also openly acknowledged her role in the plot. LaRose received a ten-year sentence, and Ramirez an eight-year sentence. Jamie Paulin Ramirez Jamie Paulin-Ramirez is an American"
"a fracas, Shannon shot Tiller with a semiautomatic pistol. Tiller was later assassinated on May 31, 2009, by Scott Roeder. At her trial in state court, Shannon testified that there was nothing immoral about trying to kill Tiller. The jurors needed only an hour to convict her of attempted murder. She was sentenced to 11 years in prison. While incarcerated in Lansing, Kansas, Shannon signed the Army of God's statement in support of the actions of Paul Jennings Hill, identifying herself as a ""prisoner of Christ"". On June 4, 1995, she pleaded guilty to setting fires at several abortion clinics"
"lands ... Ask your mothers, your wives to order your coffins."" And telling her followers: ""Victory is appearing on the horizon my brothers and sisters. Let’s intensify our prayers."" On December 11, 2008, she was arrested by the Belgian police with a group of people suspected of terrorist links. In February 2009, ""CNN"" presented an interview with El Aroud, as well as various people familiar with her activities or involved with her court proceedings, as part of ""CNN""'s regular program, ""World's Untold Stories"". In May 2010, she was convicted in Brussels on terrorism charges. In December 2017, she was stripped"
"May 18. He is being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. On June 17, a federal grand jury indicted Shahzad on terror charges. Shazad pleaded guilty to the charges. On October 5, 2010, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole by a federal judge in New York. He responded to the sentence by saying that ""the defeat of the U.S. is imminent."" When asked by the judge, ""Didn't you swear allegiance to this country?"" Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen, replied, ""I sweared, but I didn't mean it."" Representative Jane Harman, a California"
"Dylann Roof Dylann Storm Roof (born April 3, 1994) is an American white supremacist and mass murderer convicted for perpetrating the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015. During a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Roof killed nine people, all African Americans, including senior pastor and state senator Clementa C. Pinckney, and injured one other person. After several people identified Roof as the main suspect, he became the center of a manhunt that ended the morning after the shooting with his arrest in Shelby, North Carolina. He later confessed that he committed the shooting in hopes of"
"However, at least one local cleric has stated that the attack could not be justified on religious grounds. Dove World Outreach Center Quran-burning controversy In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of the Christian Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, U.S., announced he would burn 200 Qurans on the 2010 anniversary of the September 11 attacks. He gained media coverage, resulting in international outrage over his plans and pleas from world leaders to cancel the event. Jones's threat sparked protests in the Middle East and Asia, in which at least 20 people were killed. In early September 2010, Jones"
"her name to her alias, Sara Jane Olson. She also published a cookbook titled ""Serving Time: America's Most Wanted Recipes"". On October 31, 2001, she accepted a plea bargain and pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing explosives with intent to murder. As part of a plea bargain, the other charges were dropped. Immediately after entering the plea, however, Olson told reporters that she was innocent and that she had decided to take a plea bargain due to the climate after the September 11 attacks, in which she felt an accused bomber could not receive a fair trial from a"
"extradited and flown to the US where in September 2008 she was indicted on charges of assault and attempted murder of a US soldier in the police station in Ghazni—charges she denied. She was convicted on 3 February 2010 and later sentenced to 86 years in prison. Her case has been called a ""flashpoint of Pakistani-American tensions"", and ""one of the most mysterious in a secret war dense with mysteries"". In Pakistan her arrest and conviction was seen by the public as an ""attack on Islam and Muslims"", and occasioned large protests throughout the country; while in the US, she"
"as Carlos Leon Bledsoe, a convert to Islam who had spent time in Yemen, on June 1, 2009 opened fire with an assault rifle in a drive-by shooting on soldiers in front of a United States military recruiting office in Little Rock, Arkansas. He killed Private William Long and wounded Private Quinton Ezeagwula. Muhammad claimed to be affiliated with and sent by Al-Qaeda. He had previously been arrested in Yemen in November 2008, with a fraudulent Somali passport, explosive manuals, and literature by al-Awlaki. Shooting suspect Nidal Malik Hasan was investigated by the FBI after intelligence agencies intercepted at least"
"made a plea agreement, pleading guilty to conspiracy to help a ""specially designated terrorist"" organization, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. When three defendants who were part of the Virginia Jihad Network were convicted in March 2004 of conspiring to help wage violent jihad in Kashmir and possibly against American troops in Afghanistan, Elsayed said ""It is evident that Muslims should not expect justice. Muslims are besieged after 9/11, for no fault of their own."" In April 2005 Ali Al-Timimi went on trial for treason for verbally encouraging people to train for jihad and to attack the US. Elsayed said: ""He is"
"targets around the United States, including military bases, government facilities, and synagogues. The suspect, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, previously known as Carlos Leon Bledsoe, was born on July 9, 1985, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Melvin Bledsoe, a businessman and owner of Blues City Tours in Memphis, TN and his wife Linda. He has a sister Monica. Raised as a Baptist and considered a ""sunny child"", he graduated from Craigmont High School in Memphis in 2003. He attended Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, for several semesters. Bledsoe converted to Islam in 2004 at Masjid As-Salam, a Memphis mosque. He has said"
"terrorism, carried out on behalf of two activist groups, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and Animal Liberation Front (ALF). In December 2005 and January 2006, with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the FBI indicted six women and seven men on a total of 65 charges, including arson, conspiracy, use of destructive devices, and destruction of an energy facility. The defendants were named as Joseph Mahmoud Dibee]], Chelsea Dawn Gerlach, Sarah Kendall Harvey (née Kendall Tankersley), Daniel McGowan, Stanislas Meyerhoff, Josephine Sunshine Overaker, Jonathan Paul, Rebecca Jeanette Rubin, Suzanne Savoie, Justin Franchi Solondz, Darren Thurston,"
"Muhammad Musri deceived him by saying that the proposed ground zero mosque would be relocated. After the pressure over the ""Burn the Qu'ran"" controversy had died down, Jones established a new organization, ""Stand Up America Now"". On March 20, 2011, Jones officiated as judge over a mock trial operated by Stand Up America Now in which the Qu'ran was found ""guilty"" of a variety of crimes, including ""murder, rape, deception, being responsible for terrorist activities all around the world""; over 30 people attended the event, including Ahmed Abaza and other converts from Islam to Christianity testifying against the book and"
"the streets in Khartoum, demanding Gibbons's execution after imams denounced her during Friday prayers. Many Muslim organizations in other countries publicly condemned the Sudanese over their reactions as Gibbons did not set out to cause offence. She was released into the care of the British embassy in Khartoum and left Sudan after two British Muslim members of the House of Lords met President Omar al-Bashir. The Asia Bibi blasphemy case involved a Pakistani Christian woman, Aasiya Noreen (born 1971; better known as Asia Bibi convicted of blasphemy by a Pakistani court, receiving a sentence of death by hanging in 2010."
"Dove World Outreach Center Quran-burning controversy In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of the Christian Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, U.S., announced he would burn 200 Qurans on the 2010 anniversary of the September 11 attacks. He gained media coverage, resulting in international outrage over his plans and pleas from world leaders to cancel the event. Jones's threat sparked protests in the Middle East and Asia, in which at least 20 people were killed. In early September 2010, Jones cancelled and pledged never to burn a Quran. Nevertheless, on March 20, 2011, Jones held a ""trial of"