The Right has always attempted to portray themselves as the law and order party that best knew how to protect the country. Of course the largest terrorists attack on our country that caused more deaths than any terrorist attack ever occurred under their watch. Their policies of torture and unadulterated and indiscriminate aggression failed to keep us safe. Lucky for our country that the professionals under the current administration did not succumb to the Right’s rhetoric attempting to codify a policy of racial profiling. The capture of two ladies completely foreign to the profile or stereotype is proof positive that the Right must simply be considered purveyors of failed ideological policies and rhetoric.
Jamie Paulin-Ramirez Held In Connection With Plot To Assassinate Swedish Cartoonist IVAN MORENO | 03/13/10 08:25 PM
LEADVILLE, Colo. — Before her daughter disappeared last fall, Christina Mott recalls that the 31-year-old who had been held in connection with an alleged assassination plot announced she had converted to Islam and told them they’d go to hell if they didn’t follow in her steps.
Jamie Paulin-Ramirez also began talking about Jihad with her Muslim stepfather and spent most of her time online as she withdrew from her family, Mott said.
"We were enemies," Christine Mott, 59, said. "We couldn’t even speak to each other."
Paulin-Ramirez left Leadville, Colo., an old mining town west of Denver, on Sept. 11, and took her 6-year-old son with her, her mother said. A U.S. official, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity, said Saturday that Paulin-Ramirez had been detained in Ireland in connection with an alleged plot to kill cartoonist Lars Vilks, whose 2007 sketch depicted the head of the Prophet Muhammad on a dog’s body, offending many Muslims and provoking terror front Al-Qaida in Iraq to offer a $100,000 bounty for his slaying.
Irish police said later Saturday that they had released an American woman and three others arrested in Ireland over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks had been freed without charge. Three others remained in custody and were being questioned. Irish police refused to confirm whether Paulin-Ramirez is the woman in custody, and have declined to release the identities of any of those arrested.
Smoking as she sat on her living room couch in Leadville, Christine Mott said she hadn’t eaten in days. She described her daughter as troubled single mother who had the "mentality of an abused woman" and who, in trying to escape her loneliness, may have spiraled into the depths of Islam extremism. Her reported arrest came hours before U.S. authorities unveiled a terror indictment against another American woman, Colleen LaRose, of Pennsylvania.
U.S. authorities on Tuesday unsealed terror charges against the 46-year-old LaRose, who allegedly went by the name "Jihad Jane" to recruit others online to kill the cartoonist.
Mott told The Associated Press that she learned of her daughter’s arrest in the case from the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies.
Denver FBI officials said Saturday they couldn’t confirm that the FBI had contacted Mott about the case.
Jamie Paulin-Ramirez Held In Connection With Plot To Assassinate Swedish Cartoonist