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MonTREP Director Jeffrey M. Bale was interviewed on March 21 2012 by host Andrew Patterson for the “Radio Live” talk show in Auckland, New Zealand. The subject was jihadist Muhammad Mirah’s terrorist attacks in Toulouse, France, and the goal was to clarify the distinction between so-called “lone wolf” attacks by unaffiliated individuals and attacks carried out by members of small organized groups. Mirah was a member of a French pro-jihadist Islamist group known as the Proud Knights (Fursan al-Izza’), claimed to be affiliated with al-Qa’ida, and apparently received training in jihadist camps on the Afghan-Pakistan border, but his attacks may not have been authorized by leaders of the Fursan organization.