8216;Jihad Jane8217; pleads guilty to terror charges

LaRose,47,changed her plea to guilty to all counts of a superseding indictment charging her with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists,conspiracy to kill in a foreign country,making false statements and attempted identity theft.

LaRose was arrested in October 2009 in a plot to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks,whose cartoons had angered many across the Muslim world.

She faces a maximum potential sentence of life in prison and a one million dollar fine when sentenced on March 3. She had pleaded not guilty to the charges last year.

8220;Today8217;s guilty plea,by a woman from suburban America who plotted with others to commit murder overseas and to provide material support to terrorists,underscores the evolving nature of the threat we face,8221; Assistant Attorney General for National Security David Kris said.

LaRose8217;s case,which came to light months after Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley was charged with plotting terrorist attacks in India and Denmark,was seen as a disturbing new development of home-grown terrorism.

Like Headley,La Rose8217;s American citizenship and appearance made it easy for her to travel in and out of the country undetected.

A former resident of Pennsylvania,LaRose was charged by indictment in March 2010.

A superseding indictment was filed in April 2010,adding co-defendant Jamie Paulin Ramirez,a US citizen and former resident of Colorado.

Ramirez is awaiting trial which is scheduled to begin May 2,2011.

According to documents filed with the court,LaRose and her co-conspirators recruited men and women on the Internet to wage violent jihad in South Asia and Europe.

She recruited women who had passports and the ability to travel to and around Europe in support of violent jihad,the documents added.

Prosecutors said LaRose 8220;worked obsessively on her computer to communicate with,recruit and incite other jihadists.8221;