With the Boston attacks, the method of an impregnable America in the post-9/11 era also evaporated into thin air. The Boston attacks brought a distant war back home to the heart of America… These attacks left a message for the American public that the $60 billion budget of the Directorate of National Intelligence, besides the trillions of dollars that the taxpayers money spent on the imperial wars abroad as well as homeland security, failed to protect them from a simple attack executed by two men who managed to breach America’s defenses, despite being on the FBI’s watch list since 2001.
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The video, an updated version of a 2011 propaganda movie called Do Not Rely on Others, Take the Task Upon Yourself ( La tukalafu ila nafsak), offered the April 2013 Boston bombings and the May 2013 Woolwich attack as models for Muslims to follow: In December 2013, al-Qaeda’s media outlet, as-Sahab, released a two-part video calling for lone wolf attacks in the West and highlighting individuals such as Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan as models.Īn excerpt from the pro-lone wolf al-Qaeda propaganda film. Acts of lone wolf terrorism have been reported in France, Spain, Italy, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Russia, Denmark, Portugal, Poland, and Sweden. The United States is the most-targeted country, accounting for 63 percent of all global lone wolf attacks between 19, followed by the United Kingdom, Germany, and other Western countries. Recent studies reveal an increased number of countries targeted by lone wolf terrorists, an increased number of fatalities and injuries caused by lone wolves, higher prevalence and success rates for lone wolf attackers than for other types of terrorism, and increased targeting of military personnel. Lone wolf terrorism is the fastest growing kind of terrorism. Today, the real threat comes from the single individual, the “lone wolf,” living next door, being radicalized on the Internet, and plotting strikes in the dark.
Other terms used to describe comparable forms of political violence include “leaderless resistance” and “freelance terrorism.” The Unabomber, the Oklahoma City bomber, the Fort Hood shooter, the Oslo killer, and more recently the attackers of the Boston Marathon are examples of this form of terrorism.īefore 9/11, the largest terror threat came from men who went to terrorist camps and to Jihadi mosques where radical Imams preached jihad. A lone wolf may be an individual or a small group of individuals. Who is the lone wolf?Ī lone wolf acts without membership in, or cooperation with, an official or unofficial terrorist organization, cell, or group and uses traditional terrorist tactics-including the targeting of civilians-to achieve explicitly political or ideological goals.
Lone wolf terrorists, in particular, are recruited, radicalized, and trained on the web, so following them means following them on the web. Despite growing criticism of the NSA’s spying, hacking, and eavesdropping, the tracking and finding of terrorists through the internet is legitimate and important, even if better regulation is warranted.
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