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Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was a journalist with American and Israeli citizenship. He was kidnapped by Pakistani militants 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 alleged links between Richard Reid (the "shoe bomber") and Al-Qaeda. He was subsequently killed by his captors. In July 2002, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British national of Pakistani origin, was sentenced to death by hanging for Pearl's abduction and murder. In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed stated that he had personally beheaded Pearl. Al-Qaeda member Saif al-Adel has also been connected with the kidnapping. == Early life and education == Pearl was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and grew up in the upscale Encino district of Los Angeles, California, where he attended Portola Junior High School and Birmingham High School. His father, Judea Pearl, is currently a professor of Computer Science and Statistics, director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA, and a Turing Award recipient.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Judea Pearl )〕〔(UCLA Cognitive Systems Laboratory (Experimental) Index: Judea Pearl - Home ) Access date: February 12, 2010.〕 His mother Ruth is of Iraqi Jewish descent. 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, Judea, ("Roots in the Holy Land" ), ''Los Angeles Times'', May 16, 2008.〕 Danny, as he was known throughout his life, attended Stanford University from 1981 to 1985, where he stood out as a Communication major with Phi Beta Kappa honors, a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Society, a co-founder of a student newspaper called the ''Stanford Commentator'', as well as a reporter for the campus radio station, KZSU. 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 then-Soviet Union, China and Europe, he joined the ''North Adams Transcript'' and ''The Berkshire Eagle'' in western Massachusetts, then moved on to the ''San Francisco Business Times''. Pearl began at the ''Wall Street Journal''s Atlanta bureau in 1990, moving to the Washington, D.C., bureau in 1993 to cover telecommunications, and then to the London bureau in 1996. He wrote articles such as the October 1994 story of a Stradivarius violin allegedly found on a highway on-ramp,〔Pearl, Daniel. (''Stradivarius Violin, Lost Years Ago, Resurfaces but New Owner Plays Coy'' ). The Wall Street Journal Archive: October 17, 1994.〕 and a June 2000 story about Iranian pop music. His most notable investigations covered the ethnic wars in the Balkans, where he discovered that charges of an alleged genocide committed in Kosovo were unsubstantiated, and the American missile attack on a supposed military facility in Khartoum, which he proved to be a pharmaceutical factory. Later, he met and married Mariane Van Neyenhoff. Their son, Adam Daniel Pearl, was born in Paris, France on May 28, 2002, almost four months after Pearl's death. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel Pearl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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