Making the headlines at the frontlines

YVONNE RIDLEY
Hit the headlines in the wake of 9/11 when, while working for the Sunday Express, she was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan. After 11 days in captivity, she was released on the promise that she would read the Koran 8211; which she did. Subsequently converted to Islam and worked for al-Jazeera. Currently famous for radical views on religion and jehad

JILL CARROLL
A reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, Carroll was kidnapped by Sunni Muslim insurgents in Baghdad in January 2006 and released 82 days later. She was shuttled blindfolded among at least six safe houses and had closer contact with Sunni insurgents than most hostages. Her main occupation was to interview, day after day, her chief captor, who eventually released her with the warning to never reveal what she8217;d experienced

DANIEL PEARL
Ran the South Asia bureau for the Wall Street Journal in Mumbai; on January 23, 2002, while researching stories relating to 9/11, was kidnapped in Karachi by the 8220;National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty8221;. Pictures of him in captivity, handcuffed and with a gun to his head, hit the front pages, as did appeals by his pregnant wife for his release. He was killed six days later