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29 December 2009

Kofmel's emails on bomb making


It has emerged that Erich Kofmel sent electronic emails containing explicit material about "bomb making".


Previously, in a paper presented to the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in 2007, Kofmel had admitted that he had visited Islamic extremist websites "For a research project I engaged in from 2004-2007, I gathered and analysed statements made by representatives of Islamist terrorist movements on the Internet"


In the emails, which have already been provided (unredacted) to the police, Kofmel incites others to visit websites that contain explicit material about the production of explosives. The emails have been redacted for this website to hide (for obvious reasons) the actual name and link of the websites linked to, and the recipient of the emails.


Mr. Kofmel remains wanted around Europe for his role in dozens of frauds. Exactly how Mr. Kofmel used the money obtained by the frauds remains a mystery. According to police sources, the money was mostly drawn out from the fraudulent bank accounts in cash, several thousand pounds at a time.