New details in case of American killed in UAE

A woman who allegedly stabbed a U.S. teacher at a mall
in the United Arab Emirates committed a "personal
terrorist act," an official told the nation's official news
agency.
The official said she logged on to "terrorist websites"
recently, according to the WAM news agency.
The suspect, who has not been identified, is accused of
killing 47-year-old American teacher Ibolya Ryan last
week in the restroom of an upscale mall in Abu Dhabi.
The accused is a female Emirati national of Yemeni
descent, the UAE's Interior Ministry said.
Police say they think Ryan, who was the mother of three
children, did not know the attacker.
Her death came two months after the U.S. Embassy in
Abu Dhabi issued a statement warning U.S. citizens of an
anonymous Internet post that encouraged attacks against
teachers at American and other international schools.
The embassy said it was unaware of any specific, credible
threat at that time.
Veteran teacher
Ryan was born in Romania and had American and
Hungarian citizenship. She had been a teacher for 17
years, according to a Footprints Recruiting profile of her.
Last year, she began teaching in Abu Dhabi, where she
lived with her children. Before that, she taught special
education in her ex-husband's native Colorado.
Surveillance video released by police shows the moments
before and after the mall stabbing.
A veiled figure police identified as the attacker walks
calmly through a parking lot entrance, speaks to security
guards and picks up a paper before disappearing around a
corner and out of sight.
The video later shows the suspect running to an elevator
and leaving the mall through the same parking lot doors.
Reem Island, where the attack occurred, is a newly
developed area popular with expatriates in the capital.
The motive of the killing was still unclear.
Ex-husband speaks out
Ryan's ex-husband said he was shocked by the fatal stabbing
but still feels safe in the UAE.
"I'm totally horrified by what happened," Paul Ryan said.
"One just needs to look at the video, the images of that
bathroom, and it knocks you out. It knocks you out."
But he said UAE authorities have gone out of their way
to ensure his family is taken care of and have offered to
pay for his three children's education through college.
"They are treating me like family now," he said. "They
have expressed almost precisely in these terms, the children
will not have to worry about their education, for their
entire education basically."
Paul Ryan has the power to commute the death sentence
and grant a pardon if the suspect is found guilty and given
capital punishment.
The burden weighs heavily on him, he said.
"I can't believe I have the power to pardon, that is
shocking to me. I don't want this responsibility," he said.
"As far as I can tell, it seems pretty damning evidence, and
she (the suspect) confessed herself. Ibolya, my dear ex-
wife, and I do mean that, will not have died in vain."