Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, was arrested in Philadelphia on Friday after arriving from Ireland.
Last month, authorities in Ireland detained Paulin-Ramirez, originally from Colorado, and six others while investigating an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist whose drawing had offended many Muslims.
An earlier WSJ article gave this background:
Her stepfather. Mr. Mott, said that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents showed up at his door and questioned him, and took his stepdaughter's computer. She had added a keyboard with Arabic keys, he said.
"Jamie took off just like JihadJane took off on her boyfriend," Mr. Mott said. "We have been trying since September of last year to get her back here and get that baby back here."
A few months before she disappeared, her stepfather says he confronted her: "What are you going to do, strap a bomb on and blow up something?" he asked her. He recalled that she responded: "If necessary, yes."
"She never liked who she was," her mother said. "She was always looking for something."
"I thought this was just a phase she was going through, that she was trying to find herself," said Ms. Paulin-Ramirez's older brother, Michael Holcomb, 36, who lives in Houston. "Now I'm angry. And disappointed. She had a good job and she gave it all up. It's beyond me."
He said he was "actually relieved" she had been arrested because it may help them get her son back. "My only concern is getting her son back. Other than that, I don't care what happens to her." |