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
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