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Militant Views Online Were Unknown to Neighbors

By IAN URBINA
Posted: March 10, 2010.

Print: New York Times

Seemingly normal Pennsylvania woman turns into a radical jihadist after turning to Islam.

excerpt:

“This is not what I knew her to be,” said Mr. Barnum, who was married to Ms. LaRose in the 1980s. “I don’t know what she got into later in life.”

“She was just like anyone else,” he said in a brief interview, describing Ms. LaRose as upbeat and easygoing. “She had a brother, a sister, a family. There wasn’t anything really different about her.”

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