US authorities Thursday unveiled charges against two men for conspiring with a US woman known as "Jihad Jane" to recruit people online for terror plots in Europe and South Asia. The US Justice Department identified the two as Ali Charaf Damache, an Algerian detained in Ireland on unrelated charges, and Mohammad Hassan Khalid, a Pakistani living in the United States.
US prosecutors alleged that Damache and Khalid worked with Colleen LaRose, known as "Jihad Jane", and others to create a "violent jihad organisation" with men and women from Europe and the United States. It said they recruited men online "to wage violent jihad in South Asia and Europe," and recruited women with passports and the ability to travel to and around Europe in support of their plots. Assistant Attorney General Lisa Monaco said the indictment "underscores the evolving nature of violent extremism."
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