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A '''lone wolf''' is any ''one'' person, or ''one'' small group of persons, suspected or blamed – rightly or wrongly – in the commission of the [[assassination]] of a heavily guarded political figure, or an act of mass murder.
[[Lee Harvey Oswald]] is the archetypical suspected lone wolf in [[America]]n [[criminal]] history. The [[Warren Commission]] blamed him for the assassination of [[President of the United States|President]] [[John F. Kennedy]]. But doubts persist to this day whether Oswald did, or even ''could have'', engineered that assassination alone. Doubters point to the very low quality of his chosen weapon, and to the testimony of witnesses – now long-since dead, and conveniently so according to doubters – about gunfire coming from sources other than the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository overlooking Dealey Plaza in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]]. Those same doubters, of course, name a large number of suspects, including [[Mafia]] don [[Sam Giancana]] and even [[Lyndon Baines Johnson]], Kennedy's immediate successor.
In the aftermath of the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], the [[government]] of the [[United States]] refused to entertain the notion that those who carried out those attacks, did so in the name of [[Islam]] and in obedience to the foundational documents of that [[religion]]. Instead they identified [[Osama bin Laden]] as a type of lone wolf, and the group he founded ([[Al-Qaida]], or "The Base" in [[Arabic]]) as a "lone wolf group," however illogical such a concept might sound. The presence in the [[Koran]] of the Arabic word for the English verb ''to fight,'' and repeated exhortations for "slay[ing]" the "infidels," belie this notion.
On 1 October 2017, a man named [[Stephen Pollack]] allegedly used multiple extra packs of ammunition to kill fifty-nine people, and wound more than 500 others, single-handedly. This, if true, would make him a lone wolf. But already, witnesses are alleging that the shots that killed or wounded those concertgoers at that venue came from more than one location.
[[Category:Crime]][[Category:Terrorism]]
[[Lee Harvey Oswald]] is the archetypical suspected lone wolf in [[America]]n [[criminal]] history. The [[Warren Commission]] blamed him for the assassination of [[President of the United States|President]] [[John F. Kennedy]]. But doubts persist to this day whether Oswald did, or even ''could have'', engineered that assassination alone. Doubters point to the very low quality of his chosen weapon, and to the testimony of witnesses – now long-since dead, and conveniently so according to doubters – about gunfire coming from sources other than the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository overlooking Dealey Plaza in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]]. Those same doubters, of course, name a large number of suspects, including [[Mafia]] don [[Sam Giancana]] and even [[Lyndon Baines Johnson]], Kennedy's immediate successor.
In the aftermath of the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], the [[government]] of the [[United States]] refused to entertain the notion that those who carried out those attacks, did so in the name of [[Islam]] and in obedience to the foundational documents of that [[religion]]. Instead they identified [[Osama bin Laden]] as a type of lone wolf, and the group he founded ([[Al-Qaida]], or "The Base" in [[Arabic]]) as a "lone wolf group," however illogical such a concept might sound. The presence in the [[Koran]] of the Arabic word for the English verb ''to fight,'' and repeated exhortations for "slay[ing]" the "infidels," belie this notion.
On 1 October 2017, a man named [[Stephen Pollack]] allegedly used multiple extra packs of ammunition to kill fifty-nine people, and wound more than 500 others, single-handedly. This, if true, would make him a lone wolf. But already, witnesses are alleging that the shots that killed or wounded those concertgoers at that venue came from more than one location.
[[Category:Crime]][[Category:Terrorism]]