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The power of one - Western lone wolf terrorism

10/4/2012

The sentencing of Mohammed and Shasta Khan - a recently married couple convicted in July of plotting an attack on the local Jewish community in Oldham in the north of the UK - marked the end of a case which offered a new perspective on the problem of so-called lone wolf terrorism.

The trial uncovered little evidence that the pair had been directed to carry out their attack by anyone, and what direction they had appeared to have come from Inspire - an English-language jihadist magazine produced by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) with precisely the aim of encouraging and facilitating the kind of 'individual jihad' against the West being planned by the Khans.

The case was merely the latest of a number in Europe and the United States in recent years in which prosecutors have cited the role played by Inspire in facilitating plots by home-grown, grassroots jihadists, and individual jihad waged by lone wolves or hybrid 'lone wolf packs' such as the Khans currently represents a significant potential threat.

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