Deborah Scroggins (November 27, 1961 in

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"Deborah Scroggins." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 2007.) is an American journalist and author. A graduate of

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and

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, she was a reporter and editor for the '' Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' from 1987 to 1998. Her book ''Emma's War: An Aid Worker, Radical Islam and the Politics of Oil - A True Story of Love and Death in the Sudan'' is about

Emma McCune Emma McCune (3 February 1964 – 24 November 1993) was an expatriate British foreign aid worker in Sudan who married then-guerrilla leader Riek Machar. She was killed when hit by a matatu in Kenya whilst expecting her first child. Biography M ...

, a British aid worker who married Sudanese warlord Riek Machar. It won the 2003 Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling. Director

Tony Scott Anthony David Leighton Scott (21 June 1944 – 19 August 2012) was an English film director and producer. He was known for directing highly successful action and thriller films such as '' Top Gun'' (1986), '' Beverly Hills Cop II'' (1987), ''D ...

had planned to direct a film based on the book and initial reports indicated that

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would star as McCune. The project was in development at the time of Scott's death in 2012; its fate following Scott's death remains unclear. Scroggins has also written a second book: ''Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui'', an examination of the

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movement through the lives of two women on opposite sides of the spectrum:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Ayaan Hirsi Ali (; ; Somali: ''Ayaan Xirsi Cali'':'' Ayān Ḥirsī 'Alī;'' born Ayaan Hirsi Magan, ar, أيان حرسي علي / ALA-LC: ''Ayān Ḥirsī 'Alī'' 13 November 1969) is a Somali-born Dutch-American activist and former politicia ...

and Aafia Siddiqui.

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