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Steven Emerson is an internationally recognized expert on terrorism and national security and considered one of the leading world authorities on Islamic extremist networks, financing and operations. He now serves as the Executive Director of The Investigative Project, one of the world's largest archival data and intelligence on Islamic and Middle Eastern terrorist groups. Since 9-11, he has testified and briefed Congress dozens of times on terrorist financing and operational networks of Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hizzbollah, Islamic Jihad and the rest of the worldwide Islamic militant spectrum.

Emerson started the Investigative Project in late 1995, following the broadcast of his documentary film, Jihad in America, on Public Television. The film exposed video of clandestine operations of militant Islamic terrorist groups on American soil. He received numerous awards for his work, including the George Polk Award for best television documentary and the top prize from the Investigative Reporters and Editors Organization (IRE) for best investigative report in both print and television for the documentary.

Emerson is the author of five books on terrorism and national security, most recently of the national best seller, American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us (Free Press). He and his organization have been quoted or profiled in hundreds of newspaper and television stories since 09-11.

Ann Coulter is the author of five New York Times bestsellers — Godless (June 2006), How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) (October 2004); Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (June 2003); Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (June 2002); and High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton (August 1998).

Coulter is the legal correspondent for Human Events and writes a popular syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate. She is a frequent guest on many TV shows, including Hannity and Colmes, Wolf Blitzer Reports, At Large With Geraldo Rivera, Scarborough Country, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, The O'Reilly Factor, Good Morning America and has been profiled in numerous publications, including TV Guide, the Guardian (UK), the New York Observer, National Journal, Harper's Bazaar, and Elle magazine, among others. She was named one of the top 100 Public Intellectuals by federal judge Richard Posner in 2001.

A Connecticut native, Coulter graduated with honors from Cornell University School of Arts & Sciences and received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review.