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A suburban Philadelphia soi-disant queenpin with the looks of a cocktail waitress in an Irish tavern sashayed her way into an Internet plot to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks.

Colleen R. LaRose, 46, of Pennsburg PA, was arrested last October, but authorities held back the information until now, pending completion of the entire takedown.

The cartoonist seems relatively unruffled by the news.

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"The story follows fairly standard RPG conventions. You control a ragtag group of outcasts, granted special powers for mysterious reasons and charged with saving the world over 50-odd hours of battling, cutscenes and levelling up. Pretty standard stuff."

RPG: European launch tonight in London of Final Fantasy XIII, the latest in a very popular Japanese role-playing computer game series.

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