In his manifesto Anders Behring Breivik copied 25 pages verbatim from an ideological text by Evan Kohlmann and published by an institute led by Magnus Ranstorp.[7]
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 wrote Al- Qaida’s Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network.[9]
He is a Senior Terrorism Consultant for The NEFA Foundation.[10][11] He is also a contributor to the Counterterrorism Blog,[12] and a terrorism analyst for NBC News.[1]
He has called Anwar al-Awlaki "one of the principal jihadi luminaries for would-be homegrown terrorists. His fluency with English, his unabashed advocacy of jihad and mujahideen organizations, and his Web-savvy approach are a powerful combination." He calls al-Awlaki's lecture "Constants on the Path of Jihad", which he says was based on a similar document written by al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia's founder, the "virtual bible for lone-wolf Muslim extremists."[13]
Guantanamo courtroom
He produced The Al Qaida Plan, a 90-minute movie, to serve as evidence and stress relief during the Guantanamo Military Commissions,[14][15]
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 CaptainKeith Allred, the President of Salim Ahmed Hamdan's Military Commission ruled that the film would be prejudicial, but he reversed this decision.[15]
Expert witness
Kohlmann has served frequently as an expert witness for the prosecution in terrorism trials.[2][16][17] "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.[18]
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.[19]
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.[24]
Evan F. Kohlmann (2008) (2008). "Homegrown" Terrorists: Theory and Cases in the War on Terror's Newest Front". Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 618 (1): 95–109. doi:10.1177/0002716208317203. S2CID144206641.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^"Teacher jailed for aiding LeT". The Times of India. August 26, 2006. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2008. A 29-year-old Maryland man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for providing support to Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba.
^"U.S. v. YASSIN MUHIDDIN AREF and MOHAMMED MOSHARREF HOSSAIN"(PDF). talkleft. September 2006. Retrieved February 18, 2008. On September 24, 2006, the government substituted expert Evan Kohlmann in place of Rohan Gunaratna, and he prepared and submitted a report. In the one paragraph that he devotes to JEI, he does not talk about JEI Bangladesh, but rather switches to JEI generally, which is an organization which is markedly different in different countries.
