June 26, 2008: America.gov, a State Department website, interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah for an article on the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act and provided a link to the NEFA website.  

June 24, 2008: Washington Post foreign correspondent Craig Whitlock cited NEFA as one of the best "online public resources regarding al-Qaeda online." 

June 24, 2008: The Washington Post quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in the second in a series of articles addressing Al-Qaida's online presence: "'In many, many ways, the damage has already been done,' said Evan F. Kohlmann, an expert on al-Qaeda's online operations who serves as a consultant to the FBI, Scotland Yard and other agencies. 'It certainly would have been a lot easier if the U.S. government had taken this seriously back in 2004. Back then, these guys were looked upon as miscreants and cretins, like they were just Internet terrorists and not for real'... said Kohlmann, the consultant, who works as a senior investigator for the NEFA Foundation, a terrorism research group based in Charleston, S.C."

June 18, 2008: MSNBC's "Deep Background" featured the exclusive interviews of Iraqi insurgents conducted by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann.

June 13, 2008: In an interview on MSNBC's "Deep Background," NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco analyzed U.S. government radio ads requesting the Afghan public's help in locating Adam Gadahn. Franco is labeled "an enterprising journalist" by MSNBC.

June 12, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann published an article in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science titled "'Homegrown' Terrorists: Theory and Cases in the War on Terror's Newest Front."

June 3, 2008: Congressional Quarterly referenced NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann's comment that political fallout from the U.S. election is being manipulated by Al-Qaida as propaganda fodder.

June 2, 2008: In an article on the suicide bombing attack outside the Danish embassy in Pakistan, Bloomberg cited NEFA's translation of the Q&A session with Ayman al-Zawahiri. In that session, al-Zawahiri threatened attacks on Denmark. 

May 31, 2008: The Orange County Register cited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann's assessment that Adam Gadahn may be dead due to the lack of English subtitles in recent Al-Qaida videos.

May 30, 2008: Government Executive quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah in an article on terrorism financing; Farah commented that the Viktor Bout case highlights "a growing nexus of contacts and collaboration between terrorist networks and transnational criminal organizations."

May 28, 2008: The New York Times' blog cited a CT Blog posting by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in which Kohlmann asserted that a purported nuclear threat by Al-Qaida "certainly was not the product of" the terror group and instead was a "prank."

May 24, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in the Australian publication The Advertiser in an article which examined Al-Qaida's presence on the Internet. 

May 24, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in the Australian publication The Advertiser in an article which examined Al-Qaida's presence on the Internet. 

May 24, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann's commentary on the lack of English subtitles in recent Al-Qaida videos is cited in a Press-Enterprise (CA) article on Adam Gadahn. 

May 21, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness on behalf of the Department of Justice in the Ohio trial of three men charged with conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas.

May 20, 2008: Europe Press reported that NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann will speak at a July conference in Seville, sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Embassy in Spain.

May 8, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah participated on a panel, alongside the former Deputy Director of the CIA and the former Director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service, titled "Global Strategy to Counter Terrorism and Extremism."

May 7, 2008: Congressional Quarterly Homeland Security, a subscription service, referenced the NEFA Special Report Terrorists Behind Bars.

May 2, 2008: The Jurist, the website of the University of Pittsburgh's School of Law, labeled NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann's book Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network "a fascinating read."

April 29, 2008: Belgian television station RTL ran a segment on NEFA Senior Analyst Steve Merley's report titled "The Muslim Brotherhood in Belgium."

April 28, 2008: Slate Magazine noted that NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah's book Merchant of Death is helping to heighten "our awareness of the unprecedented threats posted by the new forms of global crime."

April 28, 2008: NEFA Contributor Jeff Breinholt was quoted in a New Yorker article on the investigation and prosecution of Al Haramain officials.

April 26, 2008: NBC News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about concerns that England and other European countries face a heightened threat of terrorist attacks.

April 14, 2008: Germany’s first TV channel (ARD) aired a profile of Germany’s first suicide bomber -- Cüneyt Cifti -- on the news program Report MÜNCHEN. The NEFA Foundation's video footage of Cifti featured prominently in the report.

April 8, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah's book Merchant of Death was referenced in an article on Viktor Bout in the May issue of the International Enforcement Law Reporter.

April 8, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah delivered the keynote address at a Hudson Institute event titled "Iran's Growing Presence in Latin America."

April 5, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah authored a lengthy piece on arms dealer Viktor Bout in the Australian publication The Advertiser.

April 4, 2008: The New York Times quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in a report on Abu Yahya al-Libi, identified as a "rising leader for [the] next phase of Al Qaeda’s war."

March 30, 2008: The NEFA Foundation is a non-profit foundation created after the attacks of September 11, 2001 in order to help prevent future tragedies in the U.S. and abroad by exposing those responsible for planning, funding, and executing terrorist activities. To that end, we routinely post the results of our research, analysis, and investigations on our website. Occasionally, groups and individuals may use our videos, documents, and reports without our knowledge or our permission. Recently, we have become aware that video footage exclusively recorded and distributed by the NEFA Foundation has been featured without authorization in a commercial film production by Dutch politician Geert Wilders. NEFA had no part in the conceptualization or production of Wilders’ film and our material was used without our consultation or authorization. While the NEFA Foundation unequivocally denounces extremist groups that incite, perpetrate, or justify acts of violence and terrorism, we likewise condemn all forms of racial and religious prejudice.

March 28, 2008: CBS News' "Internet Terrorism Monitor" reported on NEFA's video footage of Cuneyt Ciftci, the first German suicide bomber, who carried out an attack in Afghanistan. 

March 28, 2008: MSNBC's "Deep Background" quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in an article on jihadist advances in cyber security, which allow Al-Qaida to "communicate on an almost invisible level."

March 27, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article examining the growing crisis in Somalia and the role of Al-Shabaab.

March 27, 2008: The Boston Globe interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann for an article on U.S. companies that host terrorist websites and the U.S. government's response.

March 26, 2008: Newsweek interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann about the latest Ayman al-Zawahiri tape, which he labeled "palpably different" from prior messages.

March 20, 2008: Fox News published NEFA's full translation of the latest Usama Bin Laden audio tape.

March 19, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah participated in a Counterterrorism Foundation panel on Hugo Chavez, FARC, and South America.

March 18, 2008: Mother Jones magazine interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah for an article on the capture of Viktor Bout.

March 16, 2008: A new report by the Financial Action Task Force cited the work of NEFA Senior Investigators Doug Farah and Evan Kohlmann.

March 16, 2008: An article in The East African, which highlighted Viktor Bout's business dealings in Africa, referenced Merchant of Death, NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah's book on Bout.

March 12, 2008: Foreign Policy magazine featured an interview with NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah, asking him "Seven Questions" about Viktor Bout.

March 10, 2008: A Boston Globe editorial cited Merchant of Death, NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah's book on Viktor Bout.

March 9, 2008: The Times of London interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah, who commented on the U.S. government's "schizophrenic policies" on Viktor Bout.

March 7, 2008: The Associated Press, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Times, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph cited NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah's book Merchant of Death in reports on Viktor Bout's arrest.

March 7, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was interviewed for a front-page Washington Post article on Viktor Bout. CNN International also interviewed Farah.

March 6, 2008: NPR's "All Things Considered" interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah about Viktor Bout. Farah also appeared on Al-Jazeera and MSNBC.

March 6, 2008: ABC News interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah for an article discussing Viktor Bout's involvement in flying U.S. supply missions in Iraq.

March 6, 2008: The Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, U.S. News & World Report, BBC News, Agence France Presse, and RIA Novosti all referenced NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah's book Merchant of Death, which documents Viktor Bout's activities in rigorous detail.

March 5, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an Associated Press article examining the increasing sophistication of As-Sahab, Al-Qaida's media branch.

March 2, 2008: The New York Post quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussing reactions on jihadist message boards to a picture of Barack Obama dressed as a Somali elder.

March 2, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah's book Merchant of Death was reviewed in The Charleston Gazette (WV).

February 29, 2008: The Reuters blog cited NEFA's transcript of the most recent Ayman al-Zawahiri tape, in which Al-Qaida's number two official mourns the death of Abu al-Laith al-Libi.

February 29, 2008: On Capitol Hill, NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann participated in a NEFA co-sponsored panel discussion, along with the Chief Technology Officer for VeriSign, titled "Meta-Terror: Terrorism and the Virtual World."

February 28, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted extensively in a MSNBC "First Read" article about a "flap" on Al Hesbah, an Al-Qaida message board, sparked by a picture of Barack Obama dressed as a Somali elder.

February 27, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a lengthy Washington Post article examining the terrorist ties of imam Anwar Aulaqi, who counseled three of the 9/11 hijackers and now lives in Yemen. Kohlmann labeled him a "huge inspiration to home-grown terror cells in the U.K. and Europe."

February 26, 2008: The Associated Press, the New Haven Register, and the Hartford Courtant reported on NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann's expert witness testimony in the Hassan Abuhihaad case.

February 25, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness in the case against Hassan Abujihaad.   

February 25, 2008: The Independent quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah's work on the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in a piece about the revelations emerging during Charles Taylor's Crimes Against Humanity trial.  

February 24, 2008: The Associated Press cited NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann's analysis of Azzam Publications in an article on the case against Hassan Abujihaad, whose trial is slated to begin Feb. 25.

February 22, 2008: Congressional Quarterly (CQ) referenced NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah's assessment that Georgetown University's John Esposito is "a longtime supporter of the international Muslim Brotherhood" in a CQ report on Congressman Frank Wolf's scrutiny of Georgetown's Center for Muslim Christian Understanding. 

February 19, 2008: The New York Times interviewed NEFA Contributor Jeff Breinholt and extensively examined his work on U.S. judicial opinions mentioning Muslims or Islam.

February 15, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah was quoted in a Voice of America report on the killing of Hezbollah's Imad Mugniyeh. Assessing Mugniyeh's level of involvement in Hezbollah at the time of his death, Farah stated that it was "highly unlikely that he had simply gone into retirement."

February 14, 2008: Following a Daubert hearing, a Connecticut federal judge approved NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann as an expert witness for the government in the case against Hassan Abujihaad, a former U.S. Navy sailor indicted on terrorism and espionage charges.

January 30, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann, identified as "one of the world’s foremost internet terror experts," was quoted in a news.com.au article about terrorist groups' use of "shadowy, mysterious, almost anonymous, figures," such as Baghdad sniper "Juba," in order "to spread their message of hate."

January 28, 2008: NEFA Contributor Jeff Breinholt participated in a panel discussion on Capitol Hill about the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling in the Boim case. 

January 26, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah authored a Washington Post article (registration required) examining the "serious, often underestimated, threats to our national security" posed by "the FARC's criminal and terrorist activities, coupled with [Venezuelan President Hugo] Chávez's institutional support."

January 24, 2008: NEFA Contributor Jeff Breinholt authored an article on lawfare ("efforts to achieve...military objectives through legal tools") that was published in Family Security Matters. In the piece, Breinholt assesses the recent lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights against former DOJ attorney John Yoo, which he labels "absurd."  

January 20, 2008: The Boston Globe interviewed NEFA Contributor  Jeff Breinholt for an article examining the U.S. war on terror financing. Breinholt commented: "Before 9/11, there were basically three people [at the Justice Department] responsible for terrorist financing, and I was one of them."  

January 17, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann published an article in the Sentinel, the monthly journal of West Point's Combating Terrorism Center. The piece examines case studies in which users on extremist Internet forums become suicide bombers in the service of Al-Qaida in Iraq. 

January 16, 2008: BBC News quoted NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann in a story on Younis Tsouli (a.k.a. Irhaby007), who pled guilty in July 2007 to inciting murder for terrorist purposes. Kohlmann testified as an expert witness in Tsouli's trial.

January 16, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was interviewed for an extensive Times Online (London) article on Younis Tsouli (a.k.a. Irhaby007).

January 15, 2008: The New York Sun interviewed NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann and highlighted his paper on Al-Qaida's "MySpace" websites, which was published in the Sentinel, the monthly journal of West Point's Combating Terrorism Center.

January 7, 2008: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness in a civil lawsuit filed against Syria in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. by the families of two U.S. contractors murdered by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq.  

January 2008: NEFA's "Target: America" report "The East Coast Buildings Plot" is highlighted as a "helpful resource" in the January 2008 edition of the Security Director's Report.

December 28, 2007: The Bosnian-Serb paper Glas Srpske labeled NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann “one of the leading experts on international terrorism” in an article discussing the recent death of two Bosnian mujahideen in Iraq.

December 27, 2007: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann discussed the implications of Benazir Bhutto's assassination on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

December 21, 2007: NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah and NEFA Contributor Jeff Breinholt participated in a FrontPage Magazine symposium on the Muslim Brotherhood. Farah argued that the Brotherhood has adeptly "couch[ed] its extremist agenda in moderate language," while Breinholt asked, "why is there such a debate about a group whose manifesto describes its goal as 'jihad'?"

December 20, 2007: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann appeared on MSNBC’s “Tucker” to address Al-Qaida’s promise that Al-Qaida number two Ayman al-Zawahiri would answer questions in an online forum.

December 19, 2007: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in an Associated Press article on Al-Qaida's invitation to journalists to submit questions to Ayman al-Zawahiri.

December 16, 2007: Clips of a BBC interview with NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann were featured in the latest As-Sahab/Ayman al-Zawahiri video.

December 13, 2007: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Washington Post article on the "maturing" of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Kohlmann labeled AQIM's propaganda wing "remarkably sophisticated."

December 13, 2007: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article on the Algeria bombings; Kohlmann assessed that the attacks were carried out by a "jihadi movement that is flailing about wildly in the hopes of replicating the comparative success of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq."

December 12, 2007: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified as an expert witness in the Danish prosecution of the Al-Aqsa Foundation, which has allegedly funneled money to Hamas.

December 12, 2007: NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah and NEFA Contributor Jeff Breinholt participated in a special panel on the Holy Land Foundation and the Muslim Brotherhood on Capitol Hill. A Congressional Quarterly article summarized Farah's presentation and highlighted his argument that "you have to create a narrative" when presenting such a complex case to a jury.

December 4, 2007: NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann testified in the Boston trial of Muhamed Mubayyid et al. as an expert witness. Under examination by federal prosecutors, Mr. Kohlmann explained how particular Muslim charities 'in the areas where Muslim holy warriors are trying to reclaim Muslim land provide money 'not just to refugees but to the fighters themselves.'

December 2, 2007: According to The Washington Post, NEFA Senior Investigator Doug Farah's book Merchant of Death was one of the best nonfiction works of 2007.

December 1, 2007: A New York Post editorial on the new Usama Bin Laden tape cited NEFA’s translation.