By Douglas J. Hagmann

10 March 2010: A four-count count indictment issued against Colleen Renee LaRose, 46, formerly of 429 Main Street, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania was unsealed yesterday by federal authorities in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The indictment charges LaRose with one count each of 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.  The indictment also references five other co-conspirators, including one who resides in the U.S., although none of the five were identified by name.

LaRose came to the attention of federal authorities in 2008, when she allegedly began using the internet to solicit financial and material support to wage Jihad, or holy Islamic war against the West. Using the internet pseudonyms “JihadJane” and “Fatima Rose,” LaRose posted on Islamic internet forums, YouTube and FaceBook in an attempt to befriend and rally like-minded Muslims to her cause. She expressed her desire to advance Islamic holy war and become a shahed, or martyr for Islam. Others living within and outside of the U.S. answered her calls, and she began to put her alleged murderous plans into action.

Her online activities abruptly stopped she was arrested by federal authorities in on October 15, 2009, on charges of transferring a stolen U.S. passport to a co-conspirator. Following her arrest, she was incarcerated at the Federal Detention Center (FDC) in Philadelphia where she currently remains.

The indictment released Tuesday offers only a limited glimpse into the activities and ambitions of Colleen LaRose. Her path to “Islamic jihad” is neither exclusive nor exceptional, despite her U.S. citizenship and decidedly Western appearance. In fact, the case of Colleen LaRose can be an example of an emerging breed of Islamic terrorists and a template illustrating the developing threat posed by an ideology motivated by hatred.

The road to jihad

Diminutive at 4’11” tall, with dark blond hair and green eyes, Colleen Renee LaRose most recently lived in a second-floor apartment at this four-unit brick apartment house in the town of Pennsburg, , a rural community located north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She resided there with her cats and for a time with a boyfriend and his ill father after living in San Angelo, Texas for several years.

In Texas, she lived at 305 N. Schroeder Avenue, San Angelo, with her husband Rudolpho CAVAZOS until her divorce in 1998, although maintained that surname as well as other aliases and variations of her name. In 1997, she was convicted of a class B misdemeanor for passing a bad check. According to court records, an open warrant still exists for her in the state of Texas stemming from that case. She was also convicted of driving under the influence.

LaRose reportedly converted to Islam as a result of her relationship with a male companion. Over the last few years, she began to become active in Islamic forums and web sites, embracing the ideology while living a rather unremarkable life and blending with the landscape of suburban sprawl in America.

Information obtained exclusively by this investigator from a federal source involved in this investigation provided insight into LaRose’s path from an American suburbanite to alleged terrorist, as well as the ensuing investigation leading to her indictment.

In June 2008, LaRose posted an entry on the internet site YouTube under the pseudonym “JihadJane,” writing that she wanted to help the “suffering Muslim people.” Following the posting of the video and her statement, federal agents began and maintained surveillance of the video and postings, including LaRose’s writiings.

It was not until December 2008 that the posting by LaRose received a response by a co-conspirator in “a south Asian county” who expressed a desire to also wage jihad and become a martyr. It is relevant to note that the lapse between June and December 2008 was caused, in part, by self-proclaimed “cyber vigilantes” intent on “taking down” such postings to “fight against jihad.” Those activities also caused interruptions of proactive monitoring of the seditious activity by federal intelligence officials – an issue coincidently addressed in this article by this author.

From December 2008 through March 2009, LaRose communicated via the internet with other Muslim terrorists and supporters, arranging for financing, training and travel to advance Islamic jihad. One of the communications between LaRose and an unidentified co-conspirator referenced the plan for LaRose to marry the co-conspirator to secure his residency in a European country. Meanwhile, LaRose sought information from the Swedish Embassy, inquiring how to obtain permanent residency status in Sweden.

Also in March, LaRose reportedly received instructions to travel to Sweden for the alleged purpose of murdering an individual there. In a series of communications on March 22, 2009 between LaRose and a co-conspirator and Islamic terrorist identified as CC#3 in the indictment, CC#3 directed LaRose to murder an individual in Sweden, killing him “in a way that the whole Kufar [non-believer] world would get frightened.”

Based on a confirmation received by this author from a federal source, her mission was to murder Lars Vilks, an artist who drew a picture of the head of Muhammed on the body of a dog. That depiction of Muhammed angered Muslims throughout Europe, much like the Danish cartoon controversy. LaRose agreed to do so, writing “I will make this my goal till I achieve it or die trying,” according to the indictment.

On August 23, 2009, LaRose allegedly stole the passport from the male with whom she resided, removed the hard drive from her computer in an attempt to conceal her plans, and embarked on her journey to Europe. Later that month, she she traveled to Europe “with the intent to live and train with jihadists” and to “find and kill” Vilks. Within two weeks, she joined an online community hosted by Vilks and eventually moved into Vilks’ artist enclave in Sweden.

For the next few weeks, LaRose waited for final authorization from her terrorist contacts. On September 25, 2009, she reportedly received a communication stating that “The brothers are ready,” and a request that she send money to her contact in Somalia, reportedly a member of the al Shabaab terrorist organization. In a follow-up communication five days later, LaRose stated that she considered it “an honor and great pleasure to die or kill” for her terrorist contact, adding that “only death will stop me here that I am so close to the target,” according to the indictment.

LaRose never executed her plan to murder Vilks, and federal officials are not releasing additional information about the events that followed, citing the ongoing nature of this investigation and additional pending arrests. What is clear is that LaRose traveled back to the U.S. in the days that followed, and was arrested by federal officials in Philadelphia on October 15, 2009.

What is also clear is that LaRose is not the only American being motivated to Islamic jihad. The road to jihad is a busy one, and until the West understands and acts upon the peril we face, there will many others answering the call to jihad.

  

Washington Post Staff Writer

Federal prosecutors unsealed criminal terrorism charges Tuesday against a Pennsylvania woman who allegedly used the Internet to recruit men and women across the globe to “wage violent jihad.” 

OFF KARAKTER–The People’s Cube

Metaphorical tea-bagging befalls moonbats who become overconfident and register activist ".org" sites without a ".com" version. Which is exactly what happened to Cindy "campout" Sheehan and David "Gloria" Swanson when they started peaceoftheaction.org as part of a new scheme to lure the unwashed progs into a tent camp in front of the White House, to shake fists and demand a surrender of America’s "imperial forces" to all enemies, foreign and domestic.

A People’s Cube member who discovered their omission immediately bought peaceoftheaction.com for us to play with. Why is it important? He who never automatically typed ".com" while looking for a ".org" site, hasn’t really experienced all the wonders of the Internet. Typing ".com" is a shared human trait and it has been taken advantage of by many before us.

Long story short, our new peaceoftheaction.com looks much like peaceoftheaction.org, only it calls things by their real names. That includes describing the fist-shaking organizers as "fisters" – which, according to our recent discovery, is what they really are. That, of course, involved some recycling of our old material.

Special thanks to our heroic Space Dog Laika for promptly preparing and transmitting the new, decoded version of the site to our tinfoil hat.

This feature falls under a new category "Tea-bagged by the People’s Cube." We even made a special stamp for it, which we are hoping to attach to more similar projects in the future.

And now, without further delay, Fist of the Action!

By Debbie Schlussel

You’d think that with an extremely wealthy family and a father who was the Chairman of the First Bank of Nigeria,  Northwest Airlines Flight 253 Islamic terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab would have the best defense lawyer money can buy . . . and that he or his family would be paying for it.

Miriam L. Siefer: Terrorist Abdulmutallab’s Federal Public Defender Forged Docs in Previous Terror Case

But you’d be wrong.  In fact, YOU–the American taxpayer–are paying for his defense.  And his federal public defender, Miriam Siefer, has a record of sleaze and unethical behavior . . . some of it illegal.

Over the weekend, I told you about Northwest Airlines Flight 253 Islamic terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s:

*  family’s incredible wealth (noting that he’s yet another example debunking the absurd myth that Muslims turn to terrorism because of poverty or lack of opportunity–Nope, it’s because of Islam);

*  that he made an eleven-day trip to Houston in August 2008–why?  Who did he meet with and where did he go? (the FBI was too busy having Muslim outreach butt-kissing sessions to do the investigations they needed to do before Friday’s attempted attack);

*  that a Michigan couple who were on flight 253 say a “sharp-dressed man” helped Abdulmutallab get on the flight without a passport and that a second man was arrested when they got to Detroit;

* that the FBI appears to by lying about Sunday’s second incident on Flight 253–because the “ill businessman” who locked himself in the plane’s bathroom for an hour had no luggage and couldn’t tell authorities why he wanted to go to the U.S.

Now, meet Umar Abdulmutallab’s lawyer, Miriam Siefer, whose salary you are paying.

If the name sounds familiar, that’s because you’ve read about Siefer on this site, before.  During the Detroit terror cell case, she represented Karim Koubriti, an Islamic terrorist in a cell, which plotted to blow up the U.S. Air Force Base in Turkey, where U.S. AWACS and Israeli F-16s are based and from where they took off.  They also plotted to blow up hotels and casinos in Las Vegas and planned to detonate in Disneyland.

During the course of her “representation” of terrorist Koubriti, Siefer and her fellow public defender, Richard Helfrick a/k/a Rick Helfrick (who will probably also assist her in representing Abdulmutallab), stole the stationery of the then-Chief Judge of the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Lawrence Zatkoff, forged Zatkoff’s name, and sent it to another attorney in the case, accusing him of faking invoices (which wasn’t true). That makes at least several federal crimes that I can think of–theft, forgery, impersonating a federal official, mail fraud, etc.  but they got away with it.

In an interview, Judge Gerald Rosen, who presided over the Detroit terror cell case, admitted to me that Siefer and Helfrick forged the documents.  Then, he berated me for daring to ask about it, saying his court “deals in serious issues.”  I guess attorneys in a federal case committing several crimes and impersonating a federal judge, just aren’t serious.  In any event, Siefer and Helfrick got away with it, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be grieved to the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission about it, as anyone–including any of you readers–can file a grievance against them.

And don’t put Siefer’s dirty tricks, and illegal and unethical behavior past her in the Abdulmutallab case either.  As I reported on this site, while he was under federal indictment and incarcerated, Siefer got permission from unethical Judge Rosen to get terrorist Koubriti released, so that he could attend a National Lawyers Guild dinner honoring Siefer.  Yup, this is the joke of a federal court that will be deciding Mutallab’s fate.  And things like this, even a federal jury can’t prevent.  Two juries said Koubriti was a terrorist.  But now he roams free and is on the fast track to U.S. citizenship, thanks to this forgerer, Miriam Siefer.

Rather than serving time and getting deported Koubriti will not only soon get U.S. citizenship, but he lives in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, where he has a commercial driver’s license and drives a truck.  Yup, exactly the course of citizenship and career path you want for a terrorist.

Yes, it doesn’t matter that two juries said he was a terrorist.  Because of forgery by Siefer and outrageous behavior by corrupt Judge Rosen, who is now the Chief Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan where Abdulmutallab’s fate will be decided,  they and the Bush Justice Department worked to overturn the verdicts.  And Koubriti is free in our midst, about to have all the rights you and I have.

Like I said, don’t put forgery and other similar fraud in this case past her.  And don’t put it past the corrupt, incompetent U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan–which helped Koubriti in his quest to stay here and roam free–either.  As I noted on Saturday Night, the two Assistant U.S. Attorneys representing the U.S. in this are Jonathon Tukel–who outed a Muslim confidential informant’s identity in order to take revenge on a fellow U.S. Attorney of whom he was jealous, and likely caused the informant’s murder–and Eric M. Straus, who had a dartboard in his office, bearing the face of the Detroit FBI’s top counterterrorism intelligence official, Paul George.

Yet more evidence that America is Desperate But Not Serious.

Exit Question:  How many documents do you think Miriam Siefer will forge in the Abdulmutallab case?

Travis Air Force Base, Saturday, November 28th, 2009 

At an Anti-Drone rally, Sheehan shoves a megaphone in an elderly vets face, then she and her Code Pink comrades cried foul when he shoved back.

Veteran :"None of you have got the vaguest idea what you are advocating."

Sheehan :"No matter how much violence they bring to us, we’re going to bring peace to them."

Peace my ass! A typical tactic of Code Pink, Sheehan, and their comrades is to start shit and then scream bloody murder for the cameras. 

Listen to Sheehan call the elderly vet a “piece of crap”  several times at the end of the video. That’s the nicest thing she has ever called a vet. 

A protest is planned outside where anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan will speak today.

Sheehan’s presentation, also featuring retired Lt. Col. Bob Bowman, is at 7 p.m. at Brunswick Community College’s Odell Williamson Auditorium. Starting at 6 p.m., retired educator Christy Judah will organize a demonstration on the lawn in front of the venue.

“She is anti-war, anti-military, according to her own previous actions,” Judah has said of Sheehan. “I just want to make sure those entering the building know there are people with a different view.”

Sheehan, whose son Casey died in Iraq in 2004, is perhaps best known for camping out by then-President George Bush’s Texas ranch in 2005, demanding to know the war’s purpose. She said she is not against the troops but against the way they’re used for “war profiteering” by the government and corporations.

Source

Sheehan addressing the anti-U.S. military conference on Saturday evening, July 11, 2009

Sheehan isn’t anti-war; she’s anti-U.S. military. She’s against the U.S. military engaging in any war, at any time, and for any reason.

 Treasonous Sheehan detests the U.S. military

More info on Sheehan

By Lloyd Marcus

Commie Cunt Cindy Sheehan, left, and an unidentified comrade, right, who chained themselves to a fence in front of the White House in Washington, are questioned by two United States Park Police officers

WASHINGTON (CNN) — As the war in Afghanistan nears the start of its ninth year, a group of anti-war protesters gathered in front of the White House today to express their disappointment that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are not yet over, and to request a meeting with President Obama.

An estimated 500 people from different anti-war groups gathered on the sidewalk in front of the White House. A few chained themselves to the fence, some laid down on the sidewalk as if they were dead, and others chanted: "mourn the dead, heal the wounded, end the war!"

The protest was peaceful, though U.S. Park Police said that 61 people were arrested for failure to obey a lawful order after the crowd was repeatedly asked to move back from the sidewalk. According to Park Police Sgt. David Schlosser, all were cited and released.

Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004, was among the protestors, and was one of those who were arrested. She said she had not been a supporter of President Obama or of Sen. John McCain during last year’s election but said protestors were running out of patience. "I think the mood of the country and the mood of our movement is getting a little bit more desperate, and (that) this will be the time to be able to translate our tireless activism and work for peace," she said.

Sheehan added that President Obama has been in office long enough to start working towards peace in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that his supporters want him to make those changes.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that neither he nor the president were aware of the protest until it was mentioned in the daily briefing to the press, adding: "I think the president has long believed that whether your opinion is on one side of this issue or the other, that this is the greatness of our country, is that you get to amplify that opinion."

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FYI: When these commie rat bastards chant "mourn the dead, heal the wounded, end the war!", they’re not talking about U.S. troops and their health and welfare; they’re talking about the enemy of U.S. troops.

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The KGB, Kennedy, and Carter 

By James Simpson

Edward Moore Kennedy, whose memory was endlessly praised in the mainstream media over the weekend, conspired with our Cold War enemy, the Soviet Union, against the interests of the United States Government. The effort was to thwart the national security goals being championed by the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, as historian Paul Kengor reviews today on AT.

March 5, 1980, John Tunney met with the KGB in Moscow on behalf of Sen. Kennedy. Tunney expressed Kennedy’s opinion that "nonsense about ‘the Soviet military threat’ and Soviet ambitions for military expansion in the Persian Gulf . . . was being fueled by (President Jimmy) Carter, (National Security Advisor Zbigniew) Brzezinski, the Pentagon and the military industrial complex." Kennedy offered to speak out against President Carter on Afghanistan. Shortly thereafter he made public speeches opposing President Carter on this issue. (Emphasis mine.)

Kennedy told the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1976 that "For the last 5 years I and others in the Senate have labored unsuccessfully to place some meaningful statutory restrictions on the so-called inherent power of the Executive to engage in surveillance."

When Congress discussed legislation to require a court warrant to wiretap enemy agents and terrorists, Kennedy and the ACLU began a campaign to raise the barriers as high as possible.

Kennedy introduced the concept in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Bill that required evidence that someone was providing classified information to a foreign intelligence service. Someone who "only" had a clandestine relationship with a foreign intelligence officer and carried out covert influence operations for a foreign power could not be wiretapped. (Emphasis mine.)

When we see the KGB reports we can understand why Kennedy would want this provision in the law. Kennedy was not a KGB agent. He also was not "a useful idiot" who was used by the KGB without understanding what he was doing. Kennedy was a collaborationist. He aided the KGB for his own political purposes.

Democratic U.S. Illegal Alien Rep. Jared Polis of Boulder downs Coors Light through a funnel on "The Colbert Report" on Monday. (Photo courtesy of Comedy Central)

Denver Post 

TV funnyman Stephen Colbert snowballed Colorado Congressman Jared Polis of Boulder during Monday night’s "Colbert Report" on Comedy Central.

After improper-for-prime-time ribbing about Boulder’s Celestial Seasonings tea bags, Polis’ previous last name, Schutz ("That’s great on a campaign poster . . . ‘Schutz for brains.’ "), and Polis’ homosexuality, the mock-conservative hazed the Democratic freshman into funneling a Coors Light while the host chanted a bleeped-out fraternity taunt.

Polis’ spokeswoman did not return a call for comment about the show.

Colbert’s "Know a District" segment first visited "The Fightin’ Second" in November 2005, when current Sen. Mark Udall was its representative. Colbert called Monday’s do-over "Even Better-er Know a District."

He confused Jared Polis with Subway sandwich pitchman Jared Fogle for yuks, but other gaffes were not planned, or at least not funny. His description of the district said it’s home to "vibrant wildlife, like grizzly bears . . . ."

Grizzlies haven’t been common in Colorado for a century, nor can Boulder be seen from the ski slopes at Vail 115 miles away, as the research-challenged comic declared.