And its surrogates, and thats hard. Announcer we will leave the remaining few moments of the discussion and go live now to a conversation on lone wolf terrorism hosted by the Washington Institute for middle east policy. Just getting underway here on a spin. Cspan. On good afternoon everybody. Good afternoon and welcome to the Washington Institute for our east policy, and program on counterterrorism and intelligence lecture series. It is my pleasure to have on the podium today, a speaker from israel, bruce hoffman, from Georgetown University, and an adjunct scholar here at the Washington Institute, and i am matthew levitt, director of the concert Counterterrorism Program here at the density. Thank you, for joining us. Terrorist acts conducted by individuals acting on their own, inspired by others, completely alone, not so much alone, it is not a new phenomenon. But for the past few years, weve seen an alarming increase. And a number of what some would describe as lone wolf actors, or of