US authorities charged Tuesday an American woman known as “JihadJane” with recruiting jihadist fighters to plan deadly attacks in Europe and South Asia.
The Justice Department unsealed an indictment against Colleen LaRose from Pennsylvania, who was arrested in October 2009, and said she had been given a direct order to kill an unidentified Swedish citizen.
The indictment charged LaRose with “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.”
It said LaRose and five unindicted co-conspirators in Asia, Europe and the US had recruited men on the Internet to commit attacks as well as women “who had passports and the ability to travel to and around Europe in support of violent jihad.”
A series of devastating car bombings rocked Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 121 people and wounding hundreds more, according to preliminary accounts by witnesses, the police and hospital officials.
Five bombs in all, including at least three suicide attacks, struck near a college, a court complex in western Baghdad, a mosque and a market and a neighborhood near the Interior Ministry in what appeared to be a coordinated assault on the capital.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki lashed out at the UN atomic watchdog on Monday, saying it was implementing “law of the jungle”, as Britain and Germany warned of new sanctions against Tehran.
A defiant Mottaki said Tehran will continue to enrich uranium, the most controversial aspect of its nuclear programme, a day after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government declared plans to build 10 new enrichment plants.
In a separate remark, Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani questioned the importance of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), raising concerns about how long Tehran would remain a member given its determination to pursue its nuclear programme in defiance of international censure.
Mottaki said Friday’s resolution passed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was “illogical” and “destroys” the very foundation on which the nuclear body is based.
Islam is a violent, I was gonna say religion but it’s not a religion, it’s a political system. It’s a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination.
That is the ultimate aim. And they talk about Infidels and all this, but the truth is that’s what the game is. So you’re dealing with a, not a religion, you’re dealing with a political system. And I think we should treat it as such, and treat it’s adherents as such, as we would members of the Communist Party, or members of some fascist group.
A “significant amount” of frozen water has been found on the moon, the US space agency said Friday heralding a major leap forward in space exploration and boosting hopes of a permanent lunar base.
Preliminary data from a moon probe “indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater,” NASA said in a statement.
“The discovery opens a new chapter in our understanding of the moon,” it added, as ecstatic scientists celebrated the landmark discovery.
The data was found after NASA sent two spacecraft crashing into the lunar service last month in a dramatic experiment to probe Earth’s nearest neighbor for water.
Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, an Obama administration official said Friday.
Five other suspects at Guantanamo will be sent to military commissions, the official said, but it was not immediately clear where.
The official said Attorney General Eric Holder planned to announce the decision Friday morning. The official was not authorized to discuss the decision before the announcement, so spoke on condition of anonymity.
