Jihad Jane Suspect To Change Plea

Colleen LaRose, the Philadelphia-area woman known as "Jihad Jane," will change her plea from not guilty in federal court next week, Fox 29 has learned.

A change of plea was filed on Friday in the federal court docket for Colleen LaRose, with a hearing set for Philadelphia on Tuesday, Feb. 1 at 2 p.m.

The document didn't say what plea LaRose would make. There had been talk LaRose and another defendant, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, of Leadville, Colo., were working on plea deals.

LaRose, who has 46 at the time of her last hearing, plead not guilty in 2010 to charges of helping foreign terror suspects intent on starting a holy war in Europe and South Asia.

Last May, her trial was indefinitely postponed as lawyers tried to deal with the complex case.

LaRose, who allegedly used the online screen names "Jihad Jane" and "Fatima LaRose," had for at least a time cooperated with authorities after her arrest, a Pennsylvania congressman has said.

She is facing a potential life sentence if convicted on a charge she had agreed to kill a Swedish cartoonist who had offended Muslims.

A federal indictment alleges that the twice-divorced LaRose, who cared for her boyfriend's elderly father in their small-town apartment, grew obsessed with radical Islamists online and agreed to raise funds for them and recruit others before moving overseas in the fall.

LaRose shared a second-story apartment on Main Street in Pennsburg, Pa., until October 2009, when she was taken into custody.