on International Relations. In 1995, he founded the Foundation for Democracy in Iran with Peter Rodman, Joshua Muravchick and Iranian opposition expatriates to attempt to topple the Iranian government. He founded the Middle East Data Project to advise governments and private companies. In 1998, he made suggestions to the Rumsfeld Commission supporting the deployment of a national missile defence system. In 1998, he wrote a piece on Osama Bin Laden and his training camps in Afghanistan just before Al-Qaeda attacked two US embassies in Africa. He also wrote features for the American Spectator criticizing the export of high-technology equipment to China, which was published as a book in 2000. In 2000 Timmerman sought the nomination of the Maryland GOP to run against Democratic incumbent Paul Sarbanes. Timmerman won less than ten percent in the party primary; Paul Rappaport won the Republican nomination but lost to Sarbanes, who won with 63% of the vote. Timmerman wrote Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson as a change of pace from his focus on international issues in 2002. The argument claimed that Jackson alleging connections with criminals and claiming that Rev. Jackson practised extortion of businesses. It proved to be highly successful making the top ten bestseller list with 200,000 copies printed. It also reached the top of the Amazon bestseller list. On February 7, 2006, Sweden's former deputy prime minister and Liberal party leader Per Ahlmark said that he had nominated Timmerman for a Nobel Peace Prize along with UN Ambassador John Bolton for "their repeated warnings and documentation of Iran's secret nuclear buildup and revealing Iran's repeated lying and false reports to the International Atomic Energy Agency." The Nobel Foundation will not confirm nominations, however, until 50 years have passed. Bibliography Honor Killing," Cassiopeia Press, 2007 Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi, Broadside Books, 2014 Deception: The Making of the YouTube Video Hillary and Obama Blamed for Benghazi, PostHill Press, 2016 ISIS Begins, a Novel of the War in Iraq, PostHill Press, 2019 The Election Heist, PostHill Press, 2020 References "Kenneth R. Timmerman" Contemporary Authors Online Gale 2002 published on Biography Resource Center Thomson Gale 2005 External links Ken Timmerman's web site Insight Magazine Staff Biography for Timmerman Open Secrets page on Timmerman's fundraising for his Senate campaign Article by Timmerman on "Mullahs Best Friends" published on National Review Online 31 August 2005 (archived) Kenneth Timmerman's biography on Wikistrat