'Jihad Jane' gets 10 years in US in terror plot
January 07, 2014 00:32
A US woman involved in a plot to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after telling a judge she was once obsessed with jihad.
Fifty-year-old Colleen LaRose had called herself "Jihad Jane" online and agreed in 2009 to kill artist Lars Vilks over his series of drawings depicting the prophet Muhammad as a dog.
Vilks was never attacked. LaRose faced a potential life term. But the judge accepted a government request to reduce the sentence because of her extensive cooperation with investigators.