Evan Kohlmann

Evan F. Kohlmann (born 1979) is an American cyberintelligence professional who is the founder and chief executive officer of Cloudburst Technologies. Before founding the company, he worked as a terrorism consultant for the FBI, DOJ, SO15, and other government agencies.

He is a contributor to the Counterterrorism Blog, a senior investigator with The Nine Eleven Finding Answers Foundation, and a terrorism analyst for NBC News.

Early life and education In the profile for the Penn Law Journal, Kohlmann said he spent summers in France while growing up, because his father studied there. Kohlmann graduated from Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

He attended the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he studied under Mamoun Fandy.

He wrote Al- Qaida’s Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network.

He is a Senior Terrorism Consultant for The NEFA Foundation. He is also a contributor to the Counterterrorism Blog, and a terrorism analyst for NBC News.

He produced The Al Qaida Plan, a 90-minute movie, to serve as evidence and stress relief during the Guantanamo Military Commissions, which was sponsored by the Office of Military Commissions. According to Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald: "He modeled the video after The Nazi Plan, an instructional movie shown at the late 1940s Nuremberg tribunals for the most senior Nazi leadership."

Initially Captain Keith Allred, the President of Salim Ahmed Hamdan's Military Commission ruled that the film would be prejudicial, but he reversed this decision. "There haven’t been that many cases yet, so sometimes the prosecutors are doing their first ones. I know how the courts work, so I am pretty valuable right now.” Despite being considered a terrorism expert, Kohlmann cannot read, write or speak Arabic.

His expertise and neutrality have been disputed by defense attorneys and other experts, while his book ″Al-Qaida’s Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network″ was declined by University of Pennsylvania Press.

He testified as an expert witness in the following cases:

Case Defendant Notes U.S. v. Sabri Benkhala Sabri Benkhala U.S. v. Ali Timimi Ali al-Timimi U.S. v. Uzair Paracha Uzair Paracha U.S. v. Ali Asad Chandia Ali Asad Chandia Teacher at an Islamic school in Maryland, charged with providing material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba. U.S. v. Yassin Aref Yassin Aref Kohlmann was a last-minute replacement for the prosecution's original witness, Rohan Gunaratna. U.S. v. Rafiq Sabir Rafiq Abdus Sabir Medical doctor who allegedly agreed to provide clandestine medical treatment to wounded jihadists, and to have sworn bayat to a government agent pretending to be al-Qaeda official. U.S. v. Emadeddine Muntasser Emadeddine Muntasser Regina v. Mohammed Ajmal Khan and Palvinder Singh Mohammed Ajmal Khan Palvinder Singh H.M.A. v. Lawyers Mohammed Atif SidiqueBin Laden's driver's trial Regina v. Samina Malik Samina Malik Regina v. Hassan Mutegombwa Hassan Mutegombwa Regina v. Tsouli Younes Tsouli (Irhabi 007)Convicted of inciting terrorist murder through the publication of Al Qaeda propaganda on the internet.

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