Australian Government Says Future ‘Lone Wolf’ Attacks Hard to Prevent

Australian Government Says Future ‘Lone Wolf’ Attacks Hard to Prevent
(L) Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison (Sean Davey/AFP/Getty Images) and (R) Immigration Minister Peter Dutton (Stefan Postles/Getty Images).
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SYDNEYFuture “lone wolf” attacks in Australia will be difficult to stop despite heightened security in the aftermath of an ISIS-inspired attack in Melbourne last week, a senior government minister said on Nov. 12.

A Somali-born man set fire to a pick-up truck laden with gas cylinders in the center of Australia’s second-largest city on Nov. 9 before stabbing three people, killing a 74-year old man, in a rampage police called an act of terrorism.