After April 26, 2002, no VCR may be manufactured or imported without Automatic Gain Control circuitry ( which renders VCRs vulnerable to Macrovision ).

StarLink is a variety of Bt corn patented by Aventis Crop Sciences ( a subdivision of Aventis, acquired by Bayer AG in 2002 ), intended for use in animal feed.

Bacardi acquired the Cazadores blue agave tequila brand in 2002 and in 2004 purchased Grey Goose, a French made vodka, from Sidney Frank for $ 2 billion.

Struggling in the aftermath of the dot-com bubble bust, Compaq was acquired for US $ 25 billion by HP in 2002.

DEC was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, which subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard in May 2002.

NAI decided to drop the product line and in 2002, PGP was acquired from NAI by a new company called PGP Corporation.

In response to repeated Greek requests for return of the Elgin Marbles and similar requests to other museums around the world, in 2002, over 30 of the world's leading museums — including the British Museum, the Louvre, the Pergamon Museum in Berlin and the Metropolitan Museum in New York City — issued a joint statement declaring that " objects acquired in earlier times must be viewed in the light of different sensitivities and values reflective of that earlier era " and that " museums serve not just the citizens of one nation but the people of every nation ".

Big Briar acquired the rights to use the Moog Music name in 2002 after a legal battle with Don Martin who had previously bought the rights to the name Moog Music.

It was acquired by France Telecom ( through Atlas Services Belgium, 100 % shares ) and rebranded to Orange Slovakia on March 27, 2002.

For example: Activision acquired Raven ( 1997 ), Neversoft ( 1999 ), Z-Axis ( 2001 ), Treyarch ( 2001 ), Luxoflux ( 2002 ), Shaba ( 2002 ), Infinity Ward ( 2003 ) and Vicarious Visions ( 2005 ).

* Contractor: TRW ( acquired by Northrop Grumman in 2002 ), Israel Aircraft Industries

Wizard Books acquired the rights to the Fighting Fantasy series in 2002, and have since published reprints of older titles and several new titles in a revised order.

In 2002, Wizard Books acquired the rights to the Fighting Fantasy series and reprinted many of the original titles in a revised order to fit the reduced number of books ( initially only the gamebooks by Jackson and Livingstone were published ) and to incorporate the Sorcery!

Many of the AABC firms were bought out by other consulting companies in 2002, most notably, Deloitte ( especially in Europe ), Hitachi Consulting, PwC Consulting, which was later acquired by IBM, and KPMG Consulting, which later changed its name to BearingPoint.

The company holding the Arthur Treacher's trademark was acquired by PAT Franchise Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of TruFoods Systems, Inc., in 2002.

2002: Viking assets acquired by Alexandria Aircraft LLC ( consortium of Weber's Aero Repair and four Bellanca employees ).

Lufthansa Technik ( short LHT ), a subsidiary of Lufthansa German Airlines, acquired Hawker Pacific in 2002.

In 2002, Lufthansa Technik acquired 100 % ownership of Hawker Pacific Aerospace including its UK location.

It includes archaeological material from Central Asia, such as a hoard of Kushano-Sasanian coins acquired in 2002

* Massive Entertainment in Malmö, Sweden, founded in 1987, acquired by Vivendi Games in 2002, sold to Ubisoft on November 10, 2008.

* Swordfish Studios in Birmingham, England, founded in September 2002, acquired by Vivendi Games in June 2005, sold to Codemasters on November 14, 2008.

On 30 May 2002, Miller was acquired by South African Breweries from Philip Morris for $ 3. 6 billion worth of stock and US $ 2 billion in debt to form SABMiller, with Philip Morris retaining a 36 % ownership share and 24. 99 % voting rights.

In 1990, Fujitsu acquired 80 % of the UK-based computer company International Computers Limited ( ICL ) for $ 1. 29 billion ( ICL was renamed Fujitsu Services in 2002 ).

For nearly thirty years, DMR Consulting grew to become an international consulting firm, changing its name to Fujitsu Consulting in 2002 after being acquired by Fujitsu Ltd.

* 2002 – Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated.

In 2002, it was a primary combat zone in Operation Defensive Shield, a major military offensive by the Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF ).

* 1923 – Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer ( d. 2002 )

* 1915 – Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat ( d. 2002 )

* In 2002, Singapore accused Hezbollah of recruiting Singaporeans in a failed 1990s plot to attack U. S. and Israeli ships in the Singapore Straits.

" In June 2002, shortly after the Israeli government launched Operation Defensive Shield, Nasrallah gave a speech in which he defended and praised suicide bombings of Israeli targets by members of Palestinian groups for " creating a deterrence and equalizing fear.

* 2002 – Haim Smadar, Israeli security guard ( b. 1947 )

* 2002 – Rachel Levy, Israeli victim of Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing ( b. 1985 )

* 2002 – Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat ( b. 1915 )

The main plank of Saudi policy on the issue remains the Arab Peace Initiative, first launched by King Abdullah, as the then Crown Prince, in 2002: Arab governments would offer " normal relations and the security of Israel in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab lands, recognition of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and the return of Palestinian refugees.

Some Israeli government officials opined in 2002 that the armed Fatah sub-group al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades commenced attacks towards Israel in order to compete with Hamas.

On 6 May 2002, the Israeli government released a report, based in part on documents captured during the Israeli raid of Arafat's Ramallah headquarters, which included copies of papers signed by Arafat authorizing funding for al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades ' activities.

In August 2002, the Israeli Military Intelligence Chief alleged that Arafat's personal wealth was in the range of USD $ 1. 3 billion.

As a result of the significant increase of suicide bombing attacks within Israeli population centers during the first years of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, in June 2002 Israel began the construction of the West Bank Fence along the Green Line border arguing that the barrier is necessary to protect Israeli civilians from Palestinian terrorism.

In 2002, the compound was partly demolished by the Israeli Defense Forces and Arafat's building was cut off from the rest of the compound.

On 29 January 2009, Fernando Andreu, a judge of the Audiencia Nacional, opened preliminary investigations into claims that a targeted killing attack in Gaza in 2002 warranted the prosecution of Halutz, the former Israeli defence minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, the former defence chief-of-staff Moshe Ya ' alon, and four others, for crimes against humanity.

During the Battle of Jenin in April 2002, 23 Israeli soldiers and 52 Palestinians, most of them militants

During a gun-battle with Islamic Jihad militants whom Israel says were firing at troops from inside the UN compound, an Israeli military sniper shot and killed a UN Relief and Works Agency ( UNRWA ) employee, Iain Hook ( 54 ) on November 22, 2002.

Party leader McDonough briefly removed Robinson's portfolio over Middle East issues in 2002 for comments he made criticizing the Israeli government for alleged war crimes in Jenin.

... According to Freedom House's annual survey of political rights and civil liberties, Freedom in the World 2001 – 2002, the chaotic nature of the Intifada along with strong Israeli reprisals has resulted in a deterioration of living conditions for Palestinians in Israeli-administered areas.

Barghouti survived but was arrested by the Israeli Army in Ramallah, on April 15, 2002 and transferred to the ' Russian Compound ' police station in Jerusalem.