Colleen LaRose, a.k.a. "Jihad Jane".
The role that The Jawa Report, YouTube Smackdown Corps and other citizen volunteers in the so-called cyber posse played in tracking "Jihad Jane" is getting lots of attention in other media today.
"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.
The New York Times says " to the people monitoring her life online, the woman, Colleen R. LaRose, was a terrorist sympathizer known by her Internet name JihadJane who had expressed a desire to become a martyr for an Islamist cause."
The Times notes that Jawa and other "anti-jihadi Internet activists" had been following Jihad Jane's Web postings "since September 2008" — and had complained to U.S. authorities about her.
Fox and Friends was on the story this morning as well — though Steve Doocy doesn't seem to realize that yes, indeed, authorities did take action to stop "Jihad Jane" — she's been in custody since last October:
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