Federal authorities have arrested a Colorado nursing student with alleged dreams of joining Al Qaeda as she arrived on U.S. soil Friday afternoon, FOX News has learned.<\/p>\n
31-year-old Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was one of several people detained in Ireland last month, accused of joining a group of radical Islamists there planning to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist.<\/p>\n
Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania have now now charged her with conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist group.<\/p>\n
Her mother told Fox News three weeks ago that Paulin-Ramirez was an “insecure” person who “had no idea what she was getting herself into.”<\/p>\n
Last month, Irish authorities arrested Paulin-Ramirez and six others in a series of raids for allegedly plotting with to claim a $100,000 Al Qaeda bounty by killing the Swedish cartoonist who drew the prophet Mohammed as a dog.<\/p>\n
Irish authorities subsequently released her.<\/p>\n
At the same time, a Pennsylvania woman was charged in the United States with conspiring to commit murder in the name of a Muslim holy war, or jihad.<\/p>\n
46-year-old Colleen LaRose, who dubbed herself “Jihad Jane,” allegedly shared her radical views online and tried to recruit others through the Internet.<\/p>\n
According to her sister, LaRose suffered from depression and attempted suicide in 2005 after the death of her father.<\/p>\n
As for Paulin-Ramirez, her mother described her as someone who was “lonely and wanted to get someone to love her.”<\/p>\n
“Jamie is not an evil person,” Christine Mott said. “She was sucked into something that she had no idea what she was getting herself into.”<\/p>\n
Paulin-Ramirez fled the United States with her six-year-old son, and Mott blamed her daughter’s Algerian husband, whom she said had radical views, for the alleged involvement in the terrorist plot.<\/p>\n
One person with knowledge of the case called Paulin-Ramirez “pretty much the most tangential” of the group accused of plotting to kill the cartoonist.<\/p>\n
On Friday, her U.S.-bound plane was supposed to land at an airport on the East Coast around 3pm ET. Authorities planned to arrest her upon arrival.<\/p>\n
It’s unclear if Paulin-Ramirez, dubbed “Jihad Jamie” by some, was expecting her arrest, which would suggest a deal with U.S. authorities had been reached.<\/p>\n
She was expected to have her initial appearance late Friday in federal court in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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