Since the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001, government officials have said their greatest fear is self-radicalized individuals they call “lone wolves.”

The March 12 terrorist attack on Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, prompted a Department of Justice news conference on Monday which offered new information about the attack and a debunking of the lone wolf theory.

Jerome Gorgon Jr., the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, said: “I’ve seen some odd attempts to explain away or even lessen this terrorist attack by claiming that (the attacker) was an isolated lone wolf, but that is misleading. Terrorist propaganda is designed to activate the so-called lone wolf to act on behalf of the terrorist organization, and it makes no legal difference if the current leader of Hezbollah himself, Naim Qassem, called this man and told him to attack Temple Israel, or whether he simply heeded Hezbollah’s call to kill Jews,........

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