It is found that a statistically significant relationship that is weak in strength exists between those two variables. The third relationship profile trait is Ideology-Target Type. The results suggest “nationalist” lone wolves did not carry out a high percentage of such indirect business attacks. At the same time, RFK’s murder by Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel is also somewhat unusual with the “nationalist” lone wolf profile for venue because the Ambassador Hotel was an indirect target of attack. Still, what made this attack unusual is that “Islamist” lone wolves usually had comparatively little focus on commercial interests. While the majority of lone-wolf attacks did not focus on business targets, “Islamist” lone-wolves had a higher rate of such attacks than did other lone-wolf types considered. Mateen’s assault against the Pulse discotheque was a direct attack on a business. That data category is broken down into direct attacks against business, indirect business attacks where the primary target is not a business establishment, and attacks with no business involvement. The second relationship or profile trait found is Ideology-Business Setting, where a weak but statistically significant relationship is found. Even though the percentage of lone wolf “nationalists” who were 30 years old or younger is much lower than the percentage found for “Islamist extremist” lone wolves, Sirhan’s age is consistent with a significant number of lone wolf “nationalists” of that age. 22 revolver in Los Angeles in 1968 when he was 24 years old. By contrast, Sirhan Sirhan was a “nationalist” lone wolf who murdered Senator Kennedy in the Ambassador Hotel with a “Saturday Night Special” Iver-Johnson. That fits the profile of “Islamist extremist” lone wolves, primarily found in the United States, Western Europe, and Canada, who were mostly found to be thirty years old or younger. Omar Mateen was an Islamist extremist who carried out his Sig Sauer MCX rifle and pistol attack at the club when he was 30 years of age or below. In those cases, the political ideology category was left blank. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AR) and other “high profile” persons, ideology cannot be discerned because of a perpetrator’s psychopathy. At the same time, it should be noted for some perpetrators like Jared Lee Loughner who shot U.S. In other words, when the spectrum of lone-wolf terrorist political ideology is examined, the results suggest that lone wolf terrorists broken down by political ideology can be distinguished by age. The results suggest that a lone wolf’s political ideology has a weak to moderate but significant association with terrorist age. The first relationship or profile trait illuminated is Ideology-Age. The political ideology spectrum includes: (1) uber-leftist/anarchist, (2) Jewish extremist, (3) Islamist extremist, (4) solitary issue, (5) nationalist, and (6) uber-rightist lone wolves. In tests, Ideology, Target-Type, and Business-Type were dependent variables for the bivariate analysis performed and independent variables that represented other lone wolf terrorist attributes were regressed on those variables. I will discuss three sets of relationships in this article. The empirical testing identifies several statistically significant and substantive relationships between the variables (i.e. Kennedy (D-NY) in Los Angeles in 1968 during California’s presidential primary. To introduce this terrorism profile portfolio system, let’s compare two prominent lone-wolf terrorists: Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, who assaulted a gay discotheque in Orlando Florida in 2016, and Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated Senator Robert F.

Such efforts to craft a terrorist lone wolf profile portfolio is found in the empirical part of my new book Corporate Security Crossroads: Responding to Terrorism, Cyberthreats and other Hazards in the Global Business Environment. Next, perform statistical tests to find statistically significant and substantive relationships between those variables that are both theoretically valid and useful. Instead, sort out lone wolves into categories based on ideology, target type, age, business setting of attack, and socio-economic status. The conclusion that no one type of lone wolf personality exists misses the mark because it asks the wrong question. The amount of attention lone wolf terrorism has received over the last few years begs the question of whether or not specific types of lone wolves (and there are several) can be compared to a terrorism profile system based on statistical analysis of some characteristics. Terrorism by Richard Chasdi | on February 13th, 2017 |

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