Washington, March 10: A US woman operating online under the name “JihadJane” has been indicted for recruiting jihadi fighters in the US, Europe and Asia in a bid to carry out terror plots. Pennsylvania resident Colleen LaRose, 46, faces charges of “conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists”, among other charges, the indictment unsealed Tuesday said.

She sought to recruit men and women, to raise money and even agreed to carry out the murder of a Swedish resident, pledging “only death will stop me”, the indictment charged.
Arrested in October 2009, she spent more than a year networking with would-be attackers around the world.
With blond hair and green eyes, the 46-year-old LaRose allegedly bragged in one email that she could go anywhere undetected, writing that it was “an honour and great pleasure to die or kill for” jihad.
She also stands also accused of recruiting women “who had passports and the ability to travel to and around Europe in support of violent jihad”.
The indictment claims she received two messages in March 2009 from an individual in a South Asian country instructing her to kill an unnamed Swedish resident.    —AFP