Jihad Jane pleads guilty

The U.S. has renewed its terrorism alert for a European country. A Pennsylvania woman known as "Jihad Jane" pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four criminal charges, including a terrorism offense, that could send her to prison for life.

Colleen LaRose, 47, appeared in federal court in Philadelphia and admitted that she used the Internet nickname Jihad Jane to recruit U.S. citizens for a violent overseas plot. The case has attracted international attention because LaRose is such an unlikely radical.LaRose married at 16, and in the years after, she lived a hardscrabble life that included brushes with the law and a suicide attempt. One Pennsylvania newspaper said her story had all the makings of a country western song.