NEW YORK: A Colorado woman who converted to Islam and went to Ireland to join a man she believed was training for terrorist operations was sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday.
Jamie Paulin Ramirez, 35, pleaded guilty in a federal court in Philadelphia to providing material support to terrorists. She was nicknamed “Jihad Jamie” by the media following her 2010 arrest because she had joined a group in Ireland that included another American-born, white-skinned, blonde-haired woman, Colleen LaRose, who called herself “Jihad Jane.”
The two women were lured to Europe by Islamist extremists who hoped to use their appearance and US passports to carry out violent attacks, prosecutors said. LaRose was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for her role in an Al Qaeda-linked plot to kill a Swedish artist. reuters
