Half. Good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon and welcome to to the Washington Institute for near east policy and to the latest in our Stein Program on counterterrorism and intelligence, counterterrorism lecture series. Its my pleasure to have on the podium today buzz ganor, bruce hoffman, marlene mazell an adjunct scholar here, and i am matthew levitt, i direct the Counterterrorism Program here av the Washington Institute. Thank you so much for coming, those of you here in person, and for those watching in cspan land. Terrorist acts conducted by individuals acting on their own, inspired by others, completely alone, not so much alone, its not a new phenomenon. But in the past few years, weve seen an alarming increase in the number of what some have described as lone wolves, lone actors, lone offenders. The Islamic State, certainly, has been very proactive in using its Global Social Media Presence in particular to con transcript individuals, some who have personal problems, others who
And the volkswagen says sorry for the cheating scandal engulfing germanys biggest car maker. Now there is a fresh attempt to resolve the political crisis in burkina faso following last weeks coup and president of sinagol and others and nigeria will be heading to duck duck to reinstall the deposed government according to a draft communication from the original group echo and Charlie Angelo has more. Reporter singing the national and them of burkina faso residents loyal to the government have poured into the National Square to protest against the coup. They were joined by National Army troops who entered the city overnight. Their altimatum to soldiers behind the coup surrender or face attack and deadlines passed and negotiations are still on going, the release of zito was welcomed by the people who want order quickly restored. Translator we are counting on the army and the International Community to find a way to resolve this problem peacefully. But as the army has said if a peaceful sol
Significant memorials in it. Every visitor to the agency comes through this entrance. Every new Agency Officer takes their oath of office here in this lobby. 107 of our fallen officers, commemorated on the wall of honor. They have walked across the to takeeal that morning their place in the lobby, and the father of Central Intelligence is watching over their shoulders. Close to ading sculpture of wild bill donovan, the father of Central Intelligence. Donovan was tasked by president roosevelt in 1942 to head the office of Strategic Services. That organization had grown out of an earlier one called coordinator of information, our first nondepartmental intelligence agency, established by president roosevelt to coordinate information the warence, with growing overseas. The single star behind us commemorates the loss of 116 who served during world war ii. The cia seal is a piece that everyone sees as a first come into the lobby. Some people do not like to walk across it. Some people walk ar
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