Reports say both terrorists had recently converted to Islam.
Two days later, another Canadian soldier is shot dead in Ottawa, allegedly by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a man with a criminal record. October 2014 : Canadian soldier dies in a hit-and-run in Quebec by Martin Rouleau-Couture. Authorities said Nolen had recently converted to Islam. September 2014: An Oklahoma man with a criminal history, Alton Nolen, beheads a female co-worker after being fired. He is believed to have spent over a year in Syria with radical Islamists. May 2014: Mehdi Nemmouche opens fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in the center of Brussels, killing 4 people. May 2013: Two British-born converts to Islam, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale attack and kill a British soldier in London. Dzhokar said the brothers were motivated by extremist Islamist beliefs. Merah said he was inspired by al-Qaeda.Īpril 2013: Dzhokar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev kill 3 people, injure more than 260 at the Boston Marathon. March 2012: Mohammed Merah kills seven people (including three soldiers) in Toulouse, France. July 2011: Norwegian extremist Anders Breivik kills 77 people in a bomb attack in Oslo and a shooting spree on the island of Utøya to highlight his far-right beliefs. Airmen by Arid Uka, a devout Muslim who says he was radicalized by jihadist propaganda videos. March 2011: Frankfurt airport shooting of two U.S. He posted a suicide note expressing displeasure with the “greed” of the U.S. Pilot Andrew Joseph Stack III deliberately crashes his aircraft into a building in Austin, Texas, killing himself and one other. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, saying he was driven by a hatred of American military action in the Muslim world.įebruary 2010: U.S. June 2009: Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad shoots and kills a soldier outside Arkansas recruiting station, claiming retribution for the killing of Muslims by American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. “It was adopted as a deliberate strategy by al-Qaeda in the late 2000s” and was repeatedly encouraged by Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical preacher based in Yemen, who wrote in the online al-Qaeda magazine Inspire: “It is better to support the prophet by attacking those who slander him than it is to travel to land of Jihad like Iraq or Afghanistan.” Awlaki was killed in a U.S. “It’s obvious that lone wolf terrorism has increased in the past few years, but that was already the case before ISIS came into existence.” says Peter Neumann, Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence in London.
However, the roots of the lone wolf phenomenon go back further than this appeal.
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