Jihad Jane an Online Game
Mar 12, 2010 News & Events, war
Colleen LaRose believed her looks would allow her to blend in
The blonde middle-aged woman apparently raised no concerns with her boyfriend or her neighbours on Main Street, Pennsburg, near Philadelphia.
But online she had allegedly agreed to kill in the name of holy war, believing her European looks would allow her to blend in among Swedes as she homed in on her target.
Colleen LaRose, according to a US court indictment, posted messages online under the name Jihad Jane, expressing her desire to participate in jihad, or holy war.
Arrested in October 2009, Ms LaRose had exchanged emails over 15 months to recruit fighters for “violent jihad”.
Her activities apparently came as a surprise to her boyfriend Kurt Gorman, whom she met in 2005.
Mr Gorman told Associated Press: “She was a good-hearted person. She pretty much stayed around the house.”
‘Pleasure to die for’
She looked after his father until his death in August 2009, but left their residence a day after the father’s funeral, taking Mr Gorman’s passport with her, allegedly to give to a contact in South Asia she had agreed to marry.
“I came home and she was gone. It doesn’t make any sense,” he said.
Having left the US in August, by the end of September, she had allegedly written online that it would be “an honour & great pleasure to die or kill for” her intended spouse, the indictment said.
“Only death will stop me here that I am so close to the target!” she is accused of writing.
A Department of Justice statement said Ms LaRose and five others “recruited men on the internet to wage violent jihad in South Asia and Europe, and recruited women on the internet who had passports and the ability to travel to and around Europe in support of violent jihad”.
Ms LaRose, a US citizen born in 1963, is 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.”
She was apparently approached by others after she posted a video on YouTube in June 2008, saying she was “desperate to do something somehow to help” ease the suffering of Muslims, the indictment said.
Web images show her wearing a Muslim headscarf, but Mr Gorman said he never saw anything like that at their home, nor did she attend any religious services.
Unknown to him, she had allegedly agreed to travel to Sweden and kill Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who had angered Muslims by drawing the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog.
She denies soliciting funds for terrorist groups and of being the Jihad Jane of online postings, the indictment said.
Very few women have been charged with terrorism in the US, the Justice Department said.
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Iraqi Anti-Terrorism Advertisement
Oct 23, 2009 war
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Time running out for Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers
Apr 22, 2009 war
Fears are growing for what may be 100,000 civilians still trapped in Sri Lanka’s war zone, according to UN figures, as a deadline for the Tamil Tiger separatists to surrender looms.
David Chater, reporting from the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, says time is running out for the Tigers before a “final assault” by the military.
Israeli soldiers say killing civilians ‘allowed’
Mar 20, 2009 Uncategorized, war
Israel’s army is accused of war crimes after more than 1,300 Palestinians were killed in the war on Gaza. In interviews published by a leading Israeli newspaper
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Mullah Omar orders Taliban to stop attacking Pakistan and forces
Feb 27, 2009 Articles, war, war on terror
The militants active in North and South Waziristan agencies have been directed by Mulla Omar to immediately stop their attacks on the Pakistani security forces. According to press
According to press reports, Baitullah Mehsud and other leaders have favourably responded to his call. Of course, earlier Baitullah Mehsud was reported to be playing in the hands of those who wish to cause harm to Pakistan. Some analysts had been raising questions that why US drones killed many Al Qaeda operatives and Taliban militants in other parts of FATA, whereas no such deadly operation was conducted on Baitullah Mehsud’s stronghold? Mulla Omer must be aware of this dangerous liaison against Pakistan, which is why his message came within 24 hours after Taliban had formed a new alliance under the nomenclature of Shura Ittihad-ul-Mujahideen in the twin agencies of North and South Waziristan of FATA. According to a report in English daily, Mulla Omar first sent an envoy to the local Taliban and then wrote a letter to the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) admonishing its leaders and telling them that fighting Muslims could not be described as Jihad so they should immediately cease attacks on the Pakistani security forces. He told them: “If they really want to participate in Jihad, they must fight the US and NATO troops inside Afghanistan because their attacks on the Pakistani security forces are undermining the objectives of the war against the invaders and cause of the Taliban movement”. But the problem is that even if they stop fighting Pakistan’s security forces, but continue to cross the border over to Afghanistan to fight the US and NATO forces, Pakistan would be blamed for aiding and abetting them. It is hoped that Taliban would see reason and stop using Pakistani soil to launch attacks in Afghanistan.
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UCLA geographers urge to search 3 structures in Pakistan for bin Laden
Feb 19, 2009 News & Events, war
Feb. 17, 2009 – While U.S. intelligence officials have spent more than seven years searching fruitlessly for Osama bin Laden, UCLA geographers say they have a good idea of where the terrorist leader was at the end of 2001 – and perhaps where he has been in the years since.
In a new study published online today by the MIT International Review, the geographers report that simple facts, publicly available satellite imagery and fundamental principles of geography place the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks against the U.S. in one of three buildings in the northwest Pakistan town of Parachinar, in the Kurram tribal region near the border with Afghanistan.
“If he’s still alive, he honestly could be sitting there right now,” said Thomas W. Gillespie, the study’s lead author and an associate professor of geography at UCLA. “It is still the safest tribal area and city in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of northwest Pakistan and one of the only tribal areas that the U.S. has not bombed with its unmanned Predators.”
Despite keen interest in the terrorist recluse and a $25 million reward for information leading to his capture, academics have shied away from getting involved in the quest to find him, the researchers contend. Meanwhile, dramatic improvements in remote-sensing imagery have improved the odds of civilians doing so.
“We believe our work represents the first scientific approach to establishing bin Laden’s current location,” said John A. Agnew, study co-author and UCLA geography professor. “The methods are repeatable and could easily be updated with new information obtained by the U.S. intelligence community.”
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The War In Pakistan
Feb 16, 2009 war
The Islamic University of Gaza
Feb 6, 2009 News & Events, issues, war
Islamic University of Gaza – Before and After Israel Attack
Before
After
http://pulsemedia.org/2009/01/27/the-islamic-university-of-gaza/
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