Mom by Day, Terrorist Hunter by Night

Shannen Rossmiller Embarked on Her Mission After 9/11

June 5, 2006

By day, Shannen Rossmiller is a mother of three and a part-time judge in a small town in Montana.

As night falls, she develops another persona — she poses as an al Qaeda operative online and searches for would-be terrorists.

“It’s important because the war on terror affects everybody, every single person, every day,” Rossmiller said. “I have the skills to do it, so I feel it’s something I have to do.”

Rossmiller, 36, began trolling the Internet for potential terrorists after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Stunned and angered, she read the Koran, studied radical Islamic culture, and learned enough Arabic to lurk in chat rooms.

“It was a process that evolved for me where the curiosity of looking around on the Internet for jihadi, Islamist extremist individuals,” she said. “It’s evolved now into something that is my own playbook on how to do this, and it worked.”

Threats From Within

Rossmiller’s work first gained national attention when her online sleuthing helped federal agents set up stings that snagged two American extremists.

The first one was Washington state National Guardsman Ryan G. Anderson, a Muslim convert who wanted to give al Qaeda information about how to destroy U.S. Army tanks and Humvees, according to court records.

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Biz zeroes in on real-life terrorist hunter

Rossmiller story makes Hollywood rounds

By JOHN DEMPSEY

It’s Erin Brockovich meets Lara Croft.

That’s the pitch, and it’s making the Hollywood rounds. The subject is Shannen Rossmiller, a real-life rural Montana mother of three who has melded her computer skills and knowledge of Arabic to infiltrate terrorist cells on the Internet, most recently helping the FBI get the goods on a terrorist hellbent on blowing up sections of the Alaska Pipeline.

Rossmiller started as a brilliant 29-year-old municipal judge in a Montana farming community. Truamatized by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, she taught herself Arabic and created online pseudonyms, pretending to be sympathetic to Al-Qaeda plotters in order to lure them into revealing information leading to their capture.

Josh Schreff, who owns the book, movie and TV rights to Rossmiller’s story, says Rossmiller’s tips have helped the FBI break up as many as 200 terrorist plots around the globe. The two biggest federal cases in the U.S. traceable to her investigative work were that of the Alaska pipeline engineer, Michael Curtis Reynolds, convicted earlier this month, and the 2004 trial of Ryan Anderson, a National Guardsman who’s serving five life sentences for treason, convicted of funneling Army secrets to Al-Qaeda.

Rossmiller was a key witness in both cases, and she and her husband are licensed to carry guns because terrorists have made attempts on her life.

Her main weapon is the Internet, but the bureau flies her all over the country, making her a part of regular top-secret FBI intelligence briefings and of FBI interrogations of suspected terrorists, which she monitors behind a two-way mirror.

Rossmiller is a genuine volunteer. She’s not on the FBI payroll; her income comes from working for a local attorney.

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About Ian Bach

Independent Online Terrorist Hunter I teach people how to hunt down and shut down the Bad guys web sites. I also teach about the various countries and cultures. Like most cases it is a small group of bsd eggs that in this case call themselves Muslims but in actual fact they are more like how KKK call themselves ",True Christisians". But in both cases / groups they preach a perverted and twisted view a religion. In the case of ISIS, all Qaeda, al Nusra, and the rest of the terrorists who claim to be true Muslims most of these groups follow the Wahhabi teachings. They are almost all Sunni and their goal is global domination. Yet they must be very bad at math and history. Since most Muslims prefer a separation of church and state and also mist are against Shari's Law. Esp the twisted and overly exaggerated form of Sharia Law that the Wahhabi and other bad guys use. I have studied terrorism, insurgencies, and the best tried and proven methods that work to fight terrorism. My Blogs have many links and articles that can show you who are the best and most knowledgeable people in the fields or counterinsurgency and counter terrorism. When I find great practitioner's I always listen to them to find out who they learned from and who they respect and admire. Thus I am always learning new stuff from the best and most successful in their fields of knoeledge. I strive to be an open and ethical source of information, I have met many awesome, kind, caring, and loving wonderful people many who I am close friends with now from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran, and many from S.E. Asia which also has a high percent of their populations that are Muslim.We must always strive to be aware people are not any one particular religion via that's what they chose to be, instead most people are a particular religion because that's what their parents and/or county is. I was raised Catholic but because I became Interested in magic ,(illusion - smoke n mirrors) and science which lead me to study many religions, and I would call myself an atheist. Yet sometimes when I lose my keys ZI find myself praying "Hail Marys" and a few "Our Fathers" which most always aides me in finding my keys. My belief is that if I just frantically look around for my krys, good luck it takes me for ever. But by saying these prayers it is like s sort of meditation and my mind becomes more calm, which is why it helps my find my keys.

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