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Three Muslims arrested over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks have been freed without charge,but three other men and an American woman remain in custody,Irish police said on Saturday.
Six men three Algerians,a Libyan,a Palestinian and a Croatian and the American woman,who is married to one of the Algerians,were arrested on Tuesday in Ireland hours before US authorities unveiled a terror indictment against a 46-year-old Philadelphia woman,Colleen LaRose. LaRose who billed herself as Jihad Jane is accused of plotting with others to kill Vilks because of his 2007 controversial cartoon.
Police say LaRose visited Ireland in September and spent two weeks with the Algerian-American couple. Investigators believe she began communicating last year with the Irish-based suspects in member-only Internet chat rooms.
In Leadville,Colorado,a woman identified the woman held as her daughter,31-year-old Jamie Paulin-Ramirez.
Christine Mott said she was informed of Paulin-Ramirezs arrest by the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies.
Mott said her daughter disappeared last September and later told her family she went to Ireland with her 6-year-old son and married an Algerian whom she met online.
