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Source: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-kingdom/2017-03-27/lone-wolves-no-more
The Decline of the "Lone Wolves" Myth
(Foreign Affairs) Daveed Gartenstein-Ross - Over the past nine months, the public understanding of terrorist strikes has demonstrably shifted away from declaring single-attacker incidents to be the work of so-called lone wolves. There is growing awareness that such individuals are often in communication with other militants. In several prominent cases, the lone attackers communicated with ISIS operatives, often based in Syria.