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Jihad Jane’s Partner Pleads Not Guilty

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Jamie Paulin-Ramirez pleaded not guilty at her arraignment Wednesday in federal court in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  She faces federal charges that she supported terrorists overseas.  She was arrested in Ireland in March in a plot to commit murder.

Paulin-Ramirez is accused of being involved in the plot to kill cartoonist Lars Vilks a Swedish artist vilified by Muslims because of his drawings of the Prophet Muhammad.

The other woman Colleen R. LaRose, dubbed Jihad Jane, is also charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists in the U.S. indictment.

Jeremy Ibrahim, Paulin-Ramirez’s lawyer informed the court the accused is pregnant.  She returned to the U.S. to face the charges with her 6 year old son who is in custody of Pennsylvania Child Services.

Second Woman Questioned in Swedish Cartoonist Plot

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The Wall Street Journal said a Colorado was arrested and then released as part of an investigation into the conspiracy to murder a Swedish cartoonist.  This is the second American woman who is of interest in this plot.

Irish police said. Sgt. Declan Obyrne told CNN that Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was released from Thomastown Garda Police Station on Saturday afternoon.  Obyrne said Paulin-Ramirez has not been charged and that she is not out on bail.

Earlier this week a suburban Philadelphia woman, Colleen R. LaRose who called herself Jihad Jane, was arrested in a plot to murder cartoonist Lars Vilks a Swedish artist vilified by Muslims because of his drawings of the Prophet Muhammad.

Jihad Jane’s Target Was Swedish Cartoonist

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Colleen R. LaRose, a suburban Philadelphia woman who called herself Jihad Jane online has been charged with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas.

The blond hair, blue eyed woman’s goal was to kill cartoonist Lars Vilks a Swedish artist vilified by Muslims because of his drawings of the Prophet Muhammad.  This is just the latest string of plots to kill the cartoonist.  In September 2007, al-Qaeda leaders set a price on Vilks’ head.

His “alleged crime” was to draw a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad as a “roundabout dog”, a type of street installation popular in Sweden where sculptures are often placed in the middle of roundabaouts.

LaRose has been in custody since Oct. 15. She was in court the next day but didn’t enter a plea.  So, it’s been about five months and this is just getting into the news.

Danish Cartoonist Attacked

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Bookmark and Share Controversial Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard had to hide in his panic room with his 5 year old daughter Friday night as a man wielding an ax and knife intent on killing him broke into his home.

Kurt WestergaardWestergaard came to international attention over controversy with his political cartoon depiction of Muhammad wearing a bomb as a turban with a lit fuse.  Westergaard said he wanted his cartoon to say that some people exploited the prophet to legitimize terrorism. However, many in the Muslim world interpreted the drawing as depicting their prophet as a terrorist.

The depiction sparked an uproar among Muslims in early 2006 after newspapers reprinted the images months later as a matter of free speech.  The cartoon was first published by the Danish newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten in September 2005.

Since that depiction there have been numerous attempts and threats on his life from Muslim extremists and Danish police have arrested numerous individuals.  After three arrests in 2008, Westergaard had this to say:

Of course I fear for my life after the Danish Security and Intelligence Service informed me of the concrete plans of certain people to kill me. However, I have turned fear into anger and indignation. It has made me angry that a perfectly normal everyday activity which I used to do by the thousand was abused to set off such madness.

Police were alerted to the incident where they confronted the suspect having to shoot him in the leg and hand.  He appeared in court Saturday charged with attempted assassination of both the cartoonist and a police officer.  Authorities said he was a 28-year-old Somali who has legal residency in Denmark and lives in Sjaelland, near Copenhagenuthorities said he was a 28-year-old Somali who has legal residency in Denmark and lives in Sjaelland, near Copenhagen but would not identify the subject.  Some reports claim he has ties with an Al-Qaeda affiliated group.

Choice Quotes

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DMZ #46

Danny – That asshole Parco Delgado wears a shiny suit and plays chicken with the rest of the world with a goddam nuke… turning every single one of these innocent civilians into fucking terrorists by association

Liberty Comics #2

Seaton -Darn it, Johnny, the Mayor’s sexually gratifying a rival politician-faced pig!

Johnny – And who says romance is dead.

Secret Six #14

Jeanette – But three thousand years they stayed on their little tropical island while women were treated like cattle all over the world.

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Dark Reign: The Hood #4

Unknown – About time we got a good storm here.  This climate change, it’s messin things up.

Wizard – Fah.  I could reverse global warming if I felt like it.

Ex Machina #44

Mitchell Hundred – I know how it looks, but the terrorists hit the World Trade Center the day of the primaries, remember?  It makes sense that they might try to strike during another… you know, demonstration of democracy in action.

the Mighty Avengers #28

Scientific Beast – Let us see what their “Fair and Balanced News” makes of this.

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Captain America: Reborn #2

Norman Osborn – The only key that isn’t a bullet to the head. I mean.  Not that the man who helped kill Captain America should be expecting anything but an execution.

Crossbones – Right.  Was there some trial I slept through?

Norman Osborn – Trial… now who’s the comedian?  You’re an enemy combatant who committed a terrorist act on domestic soil… No one has even suggested there would ever be a trial.

Dark Reign: Zodiac #2

Zodiac – America the beautiful?  The founding fathers? The constitution? It’s all a scam.

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Zodiac – Cause enough chaos in the world and there’s room to do anything.  Now let’s find out just how much room…

War of Kings #6

Crystal – Transforming all species against their will would not have resulted in peace.  Can’t you see that?  We don’t have the right.  It’s a tyranny comparable to Vulcan’s aggression.  Sometimes being a King is about having the strength to make a hard decision.  And sometimes.  It’s about having the strength not to.  You are a King.  My lord… not a God.

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Punisher #1

The Punisher – Victorious warriors win first and then go to war… Defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.  Sun-Tzu, “The Art of War,” written four hundred years before Christ gave the hippies a dress code.  He understood a soldier needs a clear path to victory before he lifts a weapon.

Secret Invasion: War of Kings

Grand Commander H’Jke Jeeku – The great Skrull enterprise — a jihadist invasion of Earth through infiltration — has ended in disaster, and the damnable human species will be crying out for vengeance.

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Crystal – Are you suggesting that the Inhumans cast aside generations of reserved isolation and… what?  Adopt an active stance?  A preemptive one?

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Crystal – We have crossed a line that we cannot uncross.  Murder is much like virginity.  Once the act is done, it is always done.

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Incognito #1

Zack – Y’know… You say terror, I say crime.

Kelvin – You call blowing up buildings and killing innocent civilians crime, not terror?

Zack – When it’s for money, yeah.  Terror implies an ideology.

Kelvin – Right.

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Avengers: The Initiative #19

Tippy-Toe Says – Squirrel Girl would rather go naked than wear fur!

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Skull-Kill Krew – I understand all right.  God doesn’t love you.  He loves America.

Dark Reign: New Nation

Captain America – I believe in an idea… an idea a single individual who has the right heart and the right mind… that is consumed with a single purpose… that one man can win a war.  Give that one man a group of soldiers with the same conviction… and you can change the world.

The Invincible Iron Man #8

Osborn – The Superhuman Registration Database, Stark.  You know the one I mean.  Where is it?  How do I access it?

Stark – It’s — Ah — It’s Not — Osborn.  It’s not your personal file-o-fax.  You can’t just browse it at your leisure.  You need about a half-dozen warrants and probable cause and a federal judge to—

Osborn – Commander.

Stark – … Excuse me?

Osborn – You called me “Osborn.”  I’m trying “Commander Osborn” on for the size at the moment.

Stark – Well.  “Commander.”  You don’t get to go flipping through the database any more than you get to seize someone’s cell phone records or decide to call yourself commander.

X-Factor #38

Madrox – In the end, sometimes the smart thing is to bypass bad habits and learned behavior.  There are entire countries where fighting is the default position.  If you’re willing to put aside that mindset… it’s amazing how much you can accomplish with minimal fuss.

Uncanny X-Men #505

Mayor of San Francisco – This is San Francisco.  The hated and misunderstood have always had a home here.

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