She doesn’t exactly look like a terrorist.
Jihad Jane? She looks more like plain Jane from across the street.
Maybe that’s the point.
I’m not exactly sure how big a threat Colleen LaRose, the so-called suburban terrorist, posed.
Part of me thinks this was a woman with way too much time on her hands.
But it certainly does make you think of what we routinely think of when we picture a terrorist.
LaRose has blond hair and blue eyes.
Which I suppose only reinforces the idea that you just don’t know who is a threat.
Her boyfriend and all of her neighbors in tiny little Pennsburg, in Montgomery County, say they find it hard to believe that the woman they interacted with is an international terrorist who was trying to recruit jihadists over the Internet and was apparently willing to take part in a conspiracy to kill a cartoonist in Europe.
But that’s what federal prosecutors are alleging.
The terrorist next door.
Now that’s a frightening thought. And probably exactly what those trying to attack our country had in mind.
Jihad Jane? She looks more like plain Jane from across the street.
Maybe that’s the point.
I’m not exactly sure how big a threat Colleen LaRose, the so-called suburban terrorist, posed.
Part of me thinks this was a woman with way too much time on her hands.
But it certainly does make you think of what we routinely think of when we picture a terrorist.
LaRose has blond hair and blue eyes.
Which I suppose only reinforces the idea that you just don’t know who is a threat.
Her boyfriend and all of her neighbors in tiny little Pennsburg, in Montgomery County, say they find it hard to believe that the woman they interacted with is an international terrorist who was trying to recruit jihadists over the Internet and was apparently willing to take part in a conspiracy to kill a cartoonist in Europe.
But that’s what federal prosecutors are alleging.
The terrorist next door.
Now that’s a frightening thought. And probably exactly what those trying to attack our country had in mind.
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