Using the Internet, militants in distant lands lately have encouraged their followers in the United States "to carry out smaller-scale solo attacks and provided the online education to teach them how".
Prosecutors accused Ms. LaRose, who called herself JihadJane, of linking up, through the Internet, with militants overseas and plotting to carry out a murder.
In an indictment unsealed Tuesday, federal prosecutors accused Colleen R. LaRose, an American from the suburbs of Philadelphia, of linking up through the Internet with militants overseas and plotting to carry out a murder.
They may know little about the Koran, but feel a sense of outrage and want to emulate the heroic figures they see on militant internet clips.
His 2006 e-mail message echoed the same arguments found on militant Internet forums: that the West is at war with Islam, and Muslims are suffering humiliation because they have strayed from their religious duty to fight back.
Between Alexis Ohanian and the 35 million militant Internet users he represents, its sometimes hard to tell whos leading the march on Washington and whos following.
Sunday's video was posted on militant Internet forums by As Sahab, Al Qaeda's media wing.
SITE Intelligence Group, a monitoring agency that tracks militants' Internet postings, reported late Monday that a prominent Egyptian Salafist preacher, Ahmad Ashoush, had issued a fatwa, or religious edict, saying that "the killing of the director, producer, actors and everyone else involved in the film is mandatory".
The area around the hospital was under the control of a militia suspected of having extremist sympathies, and a video of Mr. Stevens's corpse in the hospital's morgue ultimately circulated to an extremist Web site, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, a monitoring agency that tracks militants' Internet postings.
Recent videos posted on the internet show Palestinian militants doing target practice with rifles and training to storm buildings while Islamic music plays.
