Special envoy: Lone wolf terror attacks still ‘very hard to stop’

Published December 13, 2016 6:54pm ET



U.S. Military and intelligence officials continue to struggle with preventing lone wolves from carrying out attacks on behalf of the Islamic State, Brett McGurk, the Obama administration’s representative to the anti-Islamic State coalition, said Tuesday.

“They are still trying to recruit deranged individuals from all around the world who will act in their name and that is something that is very hard to stop,” McGurk told reporters at the White House.

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