About

Flashpoint Partners is a research and analysis enterprise focused on global security, with managing partners based in London and New York.  FP offers a host of contract consulting services which are available to international governments, law enforcement agencies, media outlets, academic institutions, and private corporations.  We have a proven track record in successfully completing critical projects for a variety of high-profile clients around the world--including the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Defense, Scotland Yard's SO-15 Counter Terrorism Command, the United Kingdom Crown Prosecution Service, the Australian Federal Police (AFP), and the International Court of Justice at the Hague.

About Evan Kohlmann

Evan Kohlmann is a private sector International Terrorism Consultant who has spent over a decade tracking Al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations.  During the course of his research, Mr. Kohlmann has amassed one of the largest and most extensive open source databases in the world of original documents, communiqués, and multimedia.  He currently works as a senior investigator for the Nine Eleven Finding Answers (NEFA) Foundation--and has also served at various times as a contract consultant in terrorism matters on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTFY) at the Hague, the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the U.K. Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Scotland Yard's SO-15 Counter Terrorism Command, the Central Scotland Police, West Yorkshire Police, and the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET).

About Laith Alkhouri

Laith Alkhouri is an associate researcher with Flashpoint Partners. He is the senior translator and interpreter of terrorism-related material. Mr. Alkhouri conducts data analyses and research on various different original-source material in Arabic; his native tongue. With his expanding knowledge and keen focus in this field, Mr. Alkhouri has contributed valuable analytical input on matters relating to contemporary international terrorist groups. He has analyzed and translated multiple terrorism-related documents that were used in the U.S. Federal Court System and aired on national television.

Mr. Alkhouri holds a B.A. in Political Science from Manhattanville College, and currently he attends The New School University in pursuance of M.S. in International Affairs with concentration on International Conflict and Security.