AFP: Attacks challenge 'lone wolf' terrorist theory

Hmm. How strange. The media seems to be telling the truth.

AFP: Attacks challenge 'lone wolf' terrorist theory 

Paris (AFP) - The attacks in Paris and the radical Islamist cell dismantled in Brussels have challenged the idea of the "lone wolf" terrorist who works alone, without the help of a jihadist organisation, analysts say. 

Every terrorist that has attempted or carried out attacks in the West in recent years -- down to the Kouachi brothers who struck the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris this month -- has had some level of ties to extremist groups engaged in global jihad, according to experts. 

For Jean-Pierre Filiu, of Sciences Po university in Paris, the events in France and Belgium had shown "once again" that the idea of radicals acting in isolation was "an inane myth". 

"This largely fantastical figure is an intellectual creation that appeared in the United States as part of the Bush administration's 'global war on terror' in 2001", he argued.