Evan Kohlmann

Evan F. Kohlmann (b. circa Birth year and age|1979) is an American terrorism consultant who has worked for the FBI and other governmental organizations. [http://www.ctc.usma.edu/sentinel/CTCSentinel-Vol1Iss2.pdf CTC Sentinel] , January 2008. Vol 1. Issue 2 (p. 9), Combating Terrorism Center, United States Military Academy (West Point)] cite news
url=http://www.law.upenn.edu/alumni/alumnijournal/Fall2006/feature3/kohlmann.html
title=Terrorists Beware: Kohlmann is on the case
publisher=Penn Law Journal
author=Robert Strauss
date=Fall 2006
accessdate=2008-02-18
quote=] cite news
url=http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/02/insurgency/
title=The Iraq insurgency for beginners
publisher=Salon magazine
author=Kevin Berger
date=March 2, 2007
accessdate=2008-02-18
quote=] cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/04/11/DI2006041100626.html
title=Tracking Terrorists Online
publisher=Washington Post
author=Yuki Noguchi, Evan Kohlmann
date= April 19, 2006
accessdate=2008-02-18
quote=] cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/08/05/DI2005080501262.html
title=Al Qaeda and the Internet
publisher=Washington Post
author=Evan Kohlmann
date= August 8, 2005
accessdate=2008-02-18
quote=] He runs the website [http://www.globalterroralert.com/ Globalterroralert.com] , is a contributor to the "Counterterrorism Blog" [ [http://counterterrorismblog.org/] ] , and is a senior investigator with the Nine Eleven Finding Answers (NEFA) Foundation [http://www.nefafoundation.org/] . He is also a terrorism analyst for NBC News.

Early life

Kohlmann graduated from Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He then went to college at Georgetown University and law school at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Law School) in 2004. In a profile for the "Penn Law Journal" Kohlmann said he had spent summers in France, while growing up, because his father studied there.

His initial University studies were at Georgetown University school of foreign service, where he studied under Mamoun Fandy. He attributed his interest in Middle East politics to Fandy's mentorship.

Kohlmann next worked as an intern at The Investigative Project, a Washington think-tank.

Kohlmann entered Penn Law School in the fall of 2001, a few weeks before al Qaeda's attacks on the USA on September 11, 2001. He wrote "“Al- Qaida’s Jihad in Europe”" while he was a law student.cite book
author = Kohlmann, Evan F.
title = Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network
publisher = Berg
year = 2004
id = ISBN 1-85973-807-9The first version of this book was published by Oxford University Press in 2002.] quotation
“Doing a sort of scientific research like I had and then seeing it on TV, well, it was completely different. I turned to a classmate and said, ‘This is Osama Bin Laden, and I have to go do something about it’.”

Counter-terrorism career

Kohlmann frequently serves as a paid expert witness for the prosecution in terrorism trials.cite news
first=George
last=Smith
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title=The War on Terror's professional witness | date=2007-10-02
publisher=Situation Publishing Ltd.
url =http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/02/professional_terror_witness/
work =The Register
pages =
accessdate = 2007-10-03
language = ] cite news
first=John
last=Lettice
coauthors=
title=Jailed terror student 'hid' files in the wrong Windows folder
date=2007-10-23
publisher=Situation Publishing Ltd.
url =http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/23/siddique_trial_sentencing/
work =The Register
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accessdate = 2007-11-05
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Cases where Kohlmann testified as an expert witness

The Al Qaida Plan

Kohlmann was paid by the Prosecution to produce a movie, called "The Al Qaida Plan" to be used as evidence during the Guantanamo Military Commissions.cite news
url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/45762.html
title=Lawyers give expert testimony at bin Laden's driver's trial
publisher=McClatchy News Service
author=Carol Rosenberg
date=2008-07-29
accessdate=2008-07-29
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fworld%2Fstory%2F45762.html&date=2008-07-28 mirror] ]
Carol Rosenberg of the "Miami Herald" reports that the "The Al Qaida Plan" was modeled after a film made for the Nuremberg tribunals called "The Nazi Plan".

Publications

*cite web
url=http://law.upenn.edu/~ekohlman/afghanistan.pdf
title=A Bitter Harvest: The Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan and its Effects on Afghan Political Movements
publisher=Georgetown University
author=Evan Kohlmann
date=December 20, 1999
accessdate=2008-02-18
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format=PDF
*cite web
url=http://www.globalterroralert.com/thesis.pdf
title=The Legacy of the Arab-Afghans: A Case Study
publisher=Georgetown University
author=Evan Kohlmann
date=April 17, 2001
accessdate=2008-02-18
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format=PDF
*cite book
author = Kohlmann, Evan F.
title = Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network
publisher = Berg
year = 2004
id = ISBN 1-85973-807-9
The first version of this book was published by Oxford University Press in 2002.
*cite news
url=http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-kohlmann010203.asp
title=“Axis of Evil”: Indicted Hamas leader linked to al Qaeda activist in Midwest
publisher=National Review
author=Evan Kohlmann
date=January 2, 2003
accessdate=2008-02-18
quote=
*cite news
url=http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/kohlmann200405140835.asp
title=Breeding Ground: A home for al Qaeda in Iraq
publisher=National Review
author=Evan Kohlmann
date=May 14, 2004
accessdate=2008-02-18
quote=
*cite news
url=http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060901faessay85510/evan-f-kohlmann/the-real-online-terrorist-threat.html
title=The Real Online Terrorist Threat
publisher=Foreign Affairs
author=Evan Kohlmann
date=September/October 2006
accessdate=2008-02-18
quote=

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