In mid-November 2000, the 9 / 11 Commission believes that Nami, Wail and Waleed al-Shehri, all of whom had obtained their U. S. visas in late October, traveled in a group from Saudi Arabia to Beirut and then onward to Iran where they could travel through to Afghanistan without getting their passports stamped.

The second study lasted 411 days in 2000 – 2001, in Ahmedabad, India, under the direction of a 21 member team of medical doctors and scientists led by doctors Sudhir Shah and K. K. Shah, a past President of the Indian Medical Association and current Chairman of the Jainist Doctors ' Federation ( the latter group aims to " Promote scientific research and medical education based on principles of Jainism ").

Seymour later worked as a record producer in Dublin, producing Irish group Bell X1's debut album, Neither Am I in 2000.

The USS Abraham Lincoln battle group during the 2000 RIMPAC exercises

In the autumn of 2000, Danish citizens rejected membership of the Euro currency group in a referendum.

Montreal singer Nancy Martinez's 1986 single " For Tonight " would become the first Canadian freestyle single to reach the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, while the Montreal girl group 11: 30 reached the Canadian chart with " Ole Ole " in 2000.

Along with the commercial growth has come the rise of video games also depicting graffiti, usually in a positive aspect – for example, the Jet Set Radio series ( 2000 – 2003 ) tells the story of a group of teens fighting the oppression of a totalitarian police force that attempts to limit the graffiti artists ' freedom of speech.

It was written by Simon Burley and Peter Haines and was illustrated by a group of artists who were working for 2000 AD at the time.

In 2000, a group of 14 former GCHQ employees, who had been dismissed after refusing to give up their union membership, were offered re-employment, which three of them accepted.

According to U. S. Census figures from 2000, 41, 000, 000 Americans claim to be wholly or partly of Irish ancestry, a group that represents more than one in five white Americans.

Additionally, increased average cognitive ability of team members has been shown to consistently correlate to increased work group effectiveness ( Sundstrom et al., 2000 ).

After the Liberal Party left the coalition in April 2000, Prime Minister Mori welcomed a Liberal Party splinter group, the New Conservative Party, into the ruling coalition.

* 2000 – EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.

The group formally disbanded in 1991 but, largely due to the persistent efforts of Freda, reunited briefly in late 1999, performing a few shows in 1999 and 2000 and embarking on one last U. S. tour in 2001.

Most recently, a group of 15 amateur radio operators from the Palmyra DX Group visited the reef in October 2000.

In a quest to restore their lives and find justice, the Tonga formed their own advocacy group in 2000, the Basilwizi Trust.

In July 2000, Sekha-Metsi Consortium, a group of local business people and public figures, was announced as the successful bidder.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

The Lake Eyre Yacht Club is a dedicated group of sailors who sail on the lake's floods, including recent trips in 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2009.

* Red Planet ( 2000 ) – A group of astronauts try to make Mars suitable for human life.

Since the death of Vernon Green, in 2000, the group has been " reconstituted " by several musicians and singers who backed up, and / or recorded with Green prior to his death.

The group was in Malaysia to meet with Hambali for the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit, during which key details of the attacks may have been arranged.

Farrakhan also moved his group closer to orthodox Sunni Islam in 2000, when he and Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, the leading American orthodox Muslim, recognized each other as fellow Muslims.

* Members of the English rock group Radiohead have stated that the book influenced them particularly during the making of their fourth and fifth albums, Kid A ( 2000 ) and Amnesiac ( 2001 ) respectively.

In 1999, in an attempt to address some of this controversy, the International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission ( Historical Commission ), a group of three Catholic and three Jewish scholars was appointed, respectively, by the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews ( Holy See's Commission ) and the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations ( IJCIC ), to whom a preliminary report was issued in October 2000.

In implementing its strategy to regain political dominance over post-Soviet countries by taking over their economic infrastructure, the Russian state, since 2000, has acquired several key assets in the energy sector and Soviet-era industrial plants.

In 2000, HK was contracted to refurbish the SA80 rifle ( AR-18 based also used in the G36 ) for the British Army, since at the time HK was a subsidiary of BAE Systems who had acquired Royal Ordnance Factory.

Near the peak of the internet bubble on May 16, 2000, Lycos announced its intent to be acquired by Terra Networks, the internet arm of the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica, for $ 12. 5 billion ($ billion today ).

QED was acquired by the semiconductor manufacturer PMC-Sierra in August 2000, the latter company continuing to invest in the MIPS architecture.

) In late 2000 IBM introduced 64-bit z / Architecture, acquired numerous software companies such as Cognos and introduced those software products to the mainframe.

* In 2000, Macrovision acquired Globetrotter, creators of the FLEXlm, which was subsequently renamed Flexnet.

Following Mobil's merger with Exxon, at the start of 2000 BP acquired all the petrol retailing assets as well as the Coryton refinery ( but sold it to Petroplus in 2007 ).

As the need for office space in the Palace increased, Parliament acquired office space in the nearby Norman Shaw Building in 1975, and more recently in the custom-built Portcullis House, completed in 2000.

Quarterback Jim Harbaugh, who was acquired in a trade with the Baltimore Ravens for a conditional draft choice in 2000, became the Chargers starting quarterback.

In September 2000, SGI acquired the Zx10 series of Windows workstations and servers from Intergraph Computer Systems ( for a rumored $ 100 million ).

In 2006, 93 Games Studio announced that they have acquired the license to produce the official Twilight 2000 Version 3. 0, with plans for a 2008 release with the title Twilight: 2013.

White Wolf acquired the rights to the game in 2000, even though no new material had been produced for the game in over four years.

Palm OS was originally developed under the direction of Jeff Hawkins at Palm Computing, Inc. Palm was later acquired by U. S. Robotics Corp., which in turn was later bought by 3Com, which made the Palm subsidiary an independent publicly traded company on March 2, 2000.

The company was acquired by Primedia in 2000 in a deal that valued About at $ 690 million.

Broadvision acquired Interleaf in January 2000.

In 2000 Psion acquired Teklogix in Canada for £ 240 million, and merged its business-to-business division, Psion Enterprise, with the newly acquired company.

IBM, which had previously acquired the primary commercial vendor of DFS and AFS, Transarc, donated most of the AFS source code to the free software community in 2000.

* Berkeley Systems in Berkeley, California, founded in 1987, acquired in 1997, closed 2000.

He acquired wider notice while starring in Fox Family Channel's television series Higher Ground in 2000, portraying a teen who was sexually molested by his stepmother, and then turned to drugs in his despair.

In October 2000, Royal Crown was acquired by Cadbury Schweppes plc through its acquisition of Snapple.

In October 2000, the patent was sold to Texaco and a week later Texaco was acquired by Chevron.

Creative then acquired Aureal's assets in September 2000 through the bankruptcy court with the specific provision that Creative Labs would be released from all claims of past infringement by Creative Labs upon Aureal's A3D technology.

MPR acquired Marketplace Productions, which produces Marketplace, " Marketplace Morning Report " and " Marketplace Money " from studios in Los Angeles, in association with the University of Southern California, in 2000.

Pfizer has made numerous acquisitions, including of Warner – Lambert in 2000, Pharmacia in 2003 and Wyeth in 2009, the latter acquired for US $ 68 billion.