Jihad Jane, Colleen LaRose, Recruited Terrorists And Plotted Murder, Prosecutors Say
PHILADELPHIA (AP)– A suburban Philadelphia woman “desperate to do something” to help suffering Muslims has been charged with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill someone, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Authorities said the case shows how terror groups are looking to recruit Americans to carry out their goals.
A federal indictment charges that Colleen R. LaRose, who called herself JihadJane online, agreed to kill a Swedish citizen on orders from the unnamed terrorists and traveled to Europe to carry out the killing. It doesn’t say whether the Swede was killed, but LaRose was not charged with murder.
A U.S. Department of Justice spokesman wouldn’t confirm the case is related to a group of people arrested in Ireland earlier Tuesday on suspicion of plotting against a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog.
But a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity said LaRose had targeted the Swedish cartoonist and had online discussions about her plans with at least one of the suspects apprehended in Ireland. The official wasn’t authorized to discuss details of the investigation. Read more
Obama moving to limit fishing access
The Obama administration will accept no more (ban) public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is “fluid” and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn’t issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.
That’s a disappointment, but not really a surprise for fishing industry insiders who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force. These angling advocates have come to suspect that public input into the process was a charade from the beginning. Read more
Chantel Kendall on Jason Kendall’s Adderall Abuse
Baseball player, Jason Kendall’s wife, Chantel Kendall, is causing problems in the couples divorce case by raising concerns about her husbands’ use of Adderall (used to curb ADD and ADHD). There has been some speculation that Adderall is also being used as a performance enhancer.
Chantel Kendall has made allegations against her (now) ex, who plays for the Kansas City Royals. Though he has a prescription for the drug, Chantel is trying to cause problems.
“The bitter divorce could open up a new baseball drug scandal, as the percentage of major league baseball players with Adderall prescriptions has shot up during the past few years” (radaronline.com).
What a mess.
