Not â€˜Lone Wolvesâ€™ After All:

Nemo · Feb 5, 2017

Seems Lone Wolves run in packs.

Nemo

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/world/asia/isis-messaging-app-terror-plot.html

Not ‘Lone Wolves’ After All: How ISIS Guides World’s Terror Plots From Afar
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI, FEB. 4, 2017

HYDERABAD, India — When the Islamic State identified a promising young recruit willing to carry out an attack in one of India’s major tech hubs, the group made sure to arrange everything down to the bullets he needed to kill victims.

For 17 months, terrorist operatives guided the recruit, a young engineer named Mohammed Ibrahim Yazdani, through every step of what they planned to be the Islamic State’s first strike on Indian soil.

They vetted each new member of the cell as Mr. Yazdani recruited helpers. They taught him how to pledge allegiance to the terrorist group and securely send the statement.

And from Syria, investigators believe, the group’s virtual plotters organized for the delivery of weapons as well as the precursor chemicals used to make explosives, directing the Indian men to hidden pickup spots.

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moe mensale · Feb 7, 2017

Unless one is completely naive, I don't think that was ever in dispute. Social media and the dark web make it too easy.

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