The Veiled Threat of Female Terrorists

We think we know what a terrorist looks like. Photos of angry-eyed young men toting machine guns top every news hour and confirm the same stereotype that even we in the security business often rely on to spot would-be attackers. Those who answer the call to jihad, we imagine, are overwhelmingly male. But last month, a husband-wife team of attackers in California overturned those assumptions. The rampage of Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, awakened the public to the unsettling reality that women are just as capable of picking up a gun or assembling a bomb....