* Riley, Karen L. Schools behind Barbed Wire: The Untold Story of Wartime Internment and the Children of Arrested Enemy Aliens ( 2002 ),

In September 2002, estimated number of 1500-2000 people gathered to demonstrate against the Annual Meetings of IMF and World Bank in the streets of Washington D. c. Protesting groups included the Anti-Capitalist Convergence, the Mobilization for Global Justice.

Since about 2001, territorial defence forces, which as of 2002 number around 150, 000, have been forming, organized into battalions, companies, and platoons spread across Belarus.

Botswana possesses 888 km of gauge railway, by 2002 figures, serving a number of towns and connecting the country to its neighbours.

On the other hand, taking a longer-term view, the number of journeys in 2002 – 3 was lower than for the 1950 – 60 period.

* In 2002, on a UK poll broadcast by the BBC, Chaplin was ranked number 66 on a list of the 100 Greatest Britons.

Disorders of the heart lead to heart disease and cardiovascular disease and they lead to a significant number of deaths: cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and caused 29. 34 % of all deaths in 2002.

The number of attacks against pipelines began declining substantially in 2002.

A number of such NGOs, as well as trade unions, local councils and bar associations formed a World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2002.

The journal Pediatrics has reportedly said that the number of cheerleaders suffering from broken bones, concussions, and sprains has increased by over 100 percent between the years of 1990 and 2002, and that in 2001 there were 25, 000 hospital visits reported for cheerleading injuries dealing with the shoulder, ankle, head, and neck.

At the time of their 2002 merger, Compaq and HP were the second and third largest PC manufacturers, so their combination made them number one.

" In the BBC's 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, Bowie was placed at number 29.

In 2000 – 2002 Raymond wrote a number of HOWTOs still included in the Linux Documentation Project.

However, by 2002 expenses were once more very high and the number of entries, and sponsors, rapidly dwindled.

The number of Bundestag Deputies was reduced from 656 to 598 beginning in 2002, although under the additional member system, more deputies may be admitted if a party wins more directly elected seats than it would be entitled to under proportional representation.

In March 2002 workers cataloguing archives of diarist John Evelyn at the British Library found a box containing a number of gunpowder samples, including a compressed bar with a note in Evelyn's handwriting stating that it had belonged to Guy Fawkes.

This particular fact was reinforced when TV Guide ranked the series number 10 on its 50 Worst Shows of All Time List in 2002 ... a full 10 years after the last first-run episode aired on May 30, 1992 ( although the entry specifically refers to the Hee Haw Honeys spinoff, not the main show itself ).

* On the 2002 VH1 program 100 Greatest hip hop songs of all time, " Jump Around " was ranked number 63.

From 25 users in July 1994, the number of users grew to 1, 000 by November 1995, 5, 000 by June 1996, 10, 000 by December 1996, 50, 000 by October 1999, 100, 000 in November 2001, and peaked around 142, 000 in April 2002.

The number of servers grew from 2 – 4 when started, peaking at 44 in April 2002.

According to the industry group Craft Yarn Council of America, the number of women knitters in the United States age 25 – 35 increased 150 % in the two years between 2002 and 2004.

Between 2002 and 2004, the average American academic library saw the overall number of transactions decline approximately 2. 2 %.

The Guru and The 40-Year-Old Virgin also feature Indian-style song-and-dance sequences ; the Bollywood musical Lagaan ( 2001 ) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; two other Bollywood films Devdas ( 2002 ) and Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ) were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; and Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ) also features a Bollywood-style song-and-dance number during the film's end credits.

A number of road and airport projects were initiated prior to Mali ’ s hosting of the African Nations Cup football tournament in 2002.

In 2002, Virgin Trains ' new £ 5m high speed Super Voyager train number 221130 was named " Michael Palin " – it carries his name externally and a plaque is located adjacent to the onboard shop with information on Palin and his many journeys.

In 2009, of the 429 Florida manatees recorded dead, 97 were killed by commercial and recreational vessels, which broke the earlier record number of 95 set in 2002.

An associate of Abu Zubaydah, al-Libi was one of those whose assets were frozen by order of the September 26, 2002 list of terrorists released by the U. S. government following the September 11 attacks.

* 2002 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.

* 2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.

* 2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.

James W. Ziglar, former head of INS who left the agency early in 2002, said his objections to the program were proven correct: " The people who could be identified as terrorists weren't going to show up.

A Predator based in a neighboring Arab country was used to kill suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen on November 3, 2002.

After January 14, 2002 bin al-Shibh was found to be among five suspected al-Qaeda members delivering what United States Attorney General John Ashcroft described as " martyrdom messages from suicide terrorists " on five discovered videos.

On January 17, 2002 the FBI published the first Most Wanted Terrorists Seeking Information list ( now known as the FBI's " Seeking Information-War on Terrorism " list ), in order to profile the five wanted terrorists about whom very little was known, but who were suspected of plotting additional terrorist attacks in martyrdom operations.

Toledo wasted no time in pursuing suspected terrorists, arresting 199 of them in 2002 alone.

In 2002, Chechen terrorists took a large number of hostages in the Moscow theatre siege, and threatened to blow up the entire theatre if any attempt was made to break the siege.

According to the FSB, 39 hostages were set free by the terrorists on 24 October 2002, but they repeated via one of the hostages an earlier threat to start shooting their captives if Russia failed to take their demands seriously.

On October 23, 2002 Chechen terrorists took the audience hostage in the Moscow theater that was showing the production of Nord-Ost, threatening to blow up the building and demanding withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya.

During the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis an unsuccessful attempt to use an unknown gas — thought to be fentanyl, or 3-methylfentanyl, for inducing sleep in the terrorists and hostages — caused the deaths of many hostages, some from choking on their vomit, others from an overdose, while many of the Chechen terrorists survived using gas masks and were able to fight the Russian forces ( still, the suicide bombers among the hostages lost consciousness, as projected ).

The Information Awareness Office ( IAO ) was established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillance and information technology to track and monitor terrorists and other asymmetric threats to U. S. national security, by achieving Total Information Awareness ( TIA ).

In August 2002, the United States launched a program to track and secure enriched uranium from 24 Soviet-style reactors in 16 countries, in order to reduce the risk of the materials falling into the hands of terrorists or " rogue states ".

After the 2002 Bali bombing, on October 18, 2002, then Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz observed that " the reason the terrorists are successful in Indonesia is because the Suharto regime fell and the methods that were used to suppress them are gone.

Hassoun was arrested in 2002 for overstaying his visa and was charged in 2004 with providing material support to terrorists.

The foundation was formed by his parents Ruth and Judea Pearl after musician and Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in 2002.

Kyrgyz Defense Minister Esen Topoyev said there were several hundred Islamic militants and terrorist bases in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, and 1, 500 terrorists in Paktia Province, as recently as September 2002.

As an example of such double standards, he highlights the public outcry at the killing of Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled American murdered by Palestinian " terrorists " in 1985, contrasting it with the complete U. S. ignorance of the Israeli military's killing of a disabled Palestinian, Kemal Zughayer, in 2002.

The NEA was criticized in August 2002 for the appearance of a lesson plan on the website, originally reported by the Washington Times, that encouraged teachers to remove all references to Muslim terrorists in lesson plans for September 11th Attacks.