Second American Woman Charged in Overseas Terror Case

April 2, 2010— -- FBI and Justice Department officials arranged to have an American terrorism suspect surrender to authorities on Friday who was linked to terrorism suspect Coleen LaRose, who has become known as "Jihad Jane."

The woman, 31-year-old Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, had been in communication with LaRose and has now been charged with providing material support to terrorists. Paulin-Ramirez is originally from Leadville, Colo.

The terrorism investigation involved Ireland and the United States. Days after LaRose's arrest and indictment were announced, it was learned that another U.S. woman had been among other terrorism suspects detained in Ireland. Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was held there for several days but was eventually released without charge.

How Paulin-Ramirez ended up in Ireland with her Algerian husband was a strange case involving several countries, with LaRose at the center.

Authorities say that, in 2008, LaRose, who used the screen name "JihadJane", had posted a comment on a YouTube video which brought her in contact with extremists on the Web and via e-mail. She eventually became involved in an alleged plot to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who had drawn the Prophet Muhammed with the body of a dog in 2005.

In LaRose's e-mails with co-conspirators in South Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, LaRose allegedly agreed to recruit men and women for jihad, or holy war. She allegedly helped raise money for Islamic fighters, and agreed on the Internet to one jihadist's request to "marry me to get me inside Europe."

In March 2009, the indictment states, she allegedly received a directive to "go to Sweden... find location of [Resident of Sweden]... and kill him... this is what i say to u." Eventually the group decided they would and establish Ireland as a place to plan and undertake their plot. It is unclear when and if the alleged conspirators had ever made final plans to travel to Sweden.