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1. Daniel Pearl – Daniel Pearl was a journalist for the Wall Street Journal with American and Israeli citizenship. He was kidnapped by Pakistani terrorists and later murdered in Pakistan, Pearl was kidnapped while working as the South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, based in Mumbai, India. He had gone to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the links between British citizen Richard Reid and Al-Qaeda. Pearl was killed by his captors, in July 2002, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British national of Pakistani origin, was sentenced to death by hanging for Pearls abduction and murder. In March 2007, at a closed hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Researchers have also connected Al-Qaeda member Saif al-Adel with the kidnapping, Pearl was born in Princeton, New Jersey to Ruth and Judea Pearl. His mother is of Iraqi-Jewish descent and his father is an Israeli of Polish-Jewish descent and his family moved to the Encino district of Los Angeles, when his father took a position with UCLA. His father, Judea Pearl, is a professor of science and statistics. He has received the Turing Award, the history of the family and its connections to Israel are described by Judea Pearl in the LA Times article, Roots in the Holy Land. Pearl attended Portola Junior High School and Birmingham High School, Pearl graduated from Stanford with a B. A. in Communication, after which he spent a summer as a Pulliam Fellow intern at The Indianapolis Star. Following a trip to the Soviet Union, China, and Europe, Pearl started his journalism career at the North Adams Transcript. From there he moved to the San Francisco Business Times, in 1990 Pearl moved to the Atlanta bureau of the Wall Street Journal, and moved again in 1993 to its Washington, D. C. bureau to cover telecommunications. In 1996 he was assigned to the London bureau and in 1999 to Paris and his articles covered a range of topics, such as the October 1994 story of a Stradivarius violin allegedly found on a highway on-ramp, and a June 2000 story about Iranian pop music. He also explored the American missile attack on a military facility in Khartoum. In 1999 in Paris, Pearl met and married French journalist Mariane Van Neyenhoff and her father was Dutch and mother Cuban. Their son, Adam Daniel Pearl, was born in Paris on May 28,2002, the Pearls settled in Mumbai, India after Daniel Pearl was made Southeast Asia bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal. The message read, We give you one day if America will not meet our demands we will kill Daniel. Then this cycle will continue and no American journalist could enter Pakistan, photos of Pearl handcuffed with a gun at his head and holding up a newspaper were attached