Financial Times: Mateen a lone gunman, investigators believe
Reeling from the worst attack on American soil since 9/11, the US authorities believe at this stage that Omar Mateen was probably a deranged lone gunman who simply took the Isis name as a badge rather than being a trained operative of the group. “The most difficult type [of attacks] are the self-radicalised, lone wolves,” says Frances Townsend, former homeland security adviser to George W Bush when he was president. “It is easier to identify and intercept attacks where a terrorist group has direct operational control than it is to intercept self-radicalisation.”
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.