ABSTRACT
Since 9=11, the success in tracking and disabling al-Qaeda and other major terrorist networks around the world has been accompanied by a new concern about lone wolf terrorism. On November 5, 2009, Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on
his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, leaving 12 dead and 31 wounded. On March 2, 2011, two U.S. soldiers died after a lone gunman, Arif Uka, opened fire on them at Frankfurt airport. On July 22, 2011, Anders Breivik killed 77 in and around Oslo. The threat of lone wolf attacks was voiced by President Obama as follows:
The risk that we’re especially concerned over right now is the lone wolf terrorist, somebody with a single weapon being able to carry out widescale massacres of the sort that we saw in Norway recently. You know, when you’ve got one person who is deranged or driven by a hateful ideology, they can do a lot of damage, and it’s a lot harder to trace those lone wolf operators.1
