Virtual Militia counterpropagandist dimed her out
'Net Posse Tracked 'Jihad Jane' for Three Years
Civilian Monitors Warn of Others Like 'Jane' on the 'Net Who Are More Dangerous
While the rest of America was stunned to hear that a suburban Pennsylvania woman allegedly used the Internet identity of Jihad Jane and tried to join militant jihadists, for a group of 'Net vigilantes it was old news.
MSM has discovered a Virtual Militia.
One other type of militia merits consideration. Some analysts contend that
the Internet has made “virtual” militias (and insurgencies) possible and potentially dangerous.66 That runs counter to the definition of militias used here since “virtual” militias do not control territory or assume state functions. Perhaps, though, virtual militias and insurgents should be considered a separate category. Interestingly, just as the emergence of “real” insurgents sometimes spawn the creation of counterinsurgent militias, the emergence of “virtual” insurgents has led to the formation of
virtual counterinsurgent vigilantes. One example is the
“Internet Haganah,” part of a network of private anti-terrorist web monitoring services, which collects information on extremist websites, passes this on to state intelligence services, and attempts to convince Internet service providers not to host radical sites.67 The logic is that it takes a network to counter a network. As insurgents and terrorists become more networked and more “virtual,” states, with their inherently bureaucratic procedures and hierarchical organizations, will be ineffective. Vigilantes, without such constraints, may be.
-- from RETHINKING INSURGENCY by Steven Metz
Two background articles and some names
From The National, Irish police hold four allegedly for links with Jihad Jane (now reduced to three by release of Jamie Paulin-Ramirez), we get more background on this "Irish" group. And, the name of the Algerian linked to both US blonds:
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David Sapsted, Foreign Correspondent
Last Updated: March 13. 2010 10:17PM UAE / March 13. 2010 6:17PM GMT
LONDON // Four Irish residents, including a US woman, remained in custody last night as anti-terrorism police continued to probe the Irish connection in the “Jihad Jane” plot to murder Lars Vilks, a Swedish cartoonist.
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The CIA alerted the Garda, the Irish police, who kept her under surveillance throughout her stay in Ireland. Her main point of contact, according to sources in Dublin yesterday, was 49-year-old Sharif Damache, an Algerian who settled in Ireland in 2000 and who became a naturalised Irish citizen two years ago.
Mr Damache, who was arrested at his home in Waterford, remained in custody last night along with his wife, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, a 31-year-old convert to Islam from Colorado.
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Sources within the Garda have indicated, however, that her husband remained of much greater interest to them than Ms Paulin-Ramirez.
“We are not linking those arrested to any al Qa’eda cell,” one official said. “The central question is whether any of those in custody were directly involved in a plot to kill Mr Vilks.”
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An Algerian couple who run a bakery in Ballincollig – Ghamrassan Moulay-Slimane and his wife, Iles – were released on Friday evening, along with Nadah Sameh, a Palestinian woman from Tramore.
Her husband, Abd al Salam Mansur al Jahani, a Libyan who has been living in Ireland for almost a decade, remained in custody along with Danijel Orsos, a 26-year-old Croatian convert, and Mr Damache and his American wife.
The second piece is from the NY Post, U.S. terror mom brainwashed 6-year-old son (yup, typical Post headline ;)), which has this interesting tidbit re: mom's adult Colorado contact:
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By BARRY BORTNICK in Leadville, Colo., and TODD VENEZIA in NY
Post Wire Services
Last Updated: 12:12 PM, March 14, 2010
Posted: 4:02 AM, March 14, 2010
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The boy's mom, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, converted to Islam over the last year. Her family said she struck up an Internet friendship with another Colorado radical, Najibullah Zazi, an al Qaeda associate who pleaded guilty last month in a plot to set off bombs in the New York subway system.
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The Colorado woman's parents believe she was recruited by LaRose, who they say introduced her to her Algerian husband.
Paulin-Ramirez was released by Irish authorities yesterday, although charges may still be forthcoming, said a spokesman for the Irish police.
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As she began to become more deeply involved with Islam last summer, Paulin-Ramirez hit it off with failed terror bomber Zazi.
"When I saw him [Zazi] on TV, I said 'That's the fool Jamie's been talking with,' " George said. "She was on the line with Zazi and also with 'JihadJane,' all talking at the same time."
Paulin-Ramirez befriended a Pakistani man over the Internet, and offered to help him come to the United States to take flying lessons.
So, there may be more here. We shall see.
Regards
Mike