From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.

* 2002 – Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

" Migration, Radicalism, and State Security: Legislative Initiatives in the Canada and the United States c. 1794 – 1804 " in Studies in American Political Development, Volume 16, Issue 1, April 2002, 48 – 60

A two-disc DVD set titled The History of Beavis and Butt-Head was scheduled for release in September 2002 in the United States.

* In 2002, Edwina Currie revealed that she had had an affair, beginning in 1984, with John Major before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Formally, as per the 2002 Memorandum of Understanding between the BSI and the United Kingdom Government, British Standards are defined as:

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was forced to close its refugee camp at Mboki in October 2002, due to the high prevalence of weapons.

In 2002 Chile signed an association agreement with the European Union ( comprising FTA, political and cultural agreements ), in 2003, an extensive free trade agreement with the United States, and in 2004 with South Korea, expecting a boom in import and export of local produce and becoming a regional trade-hub.

On May 28, 2002, the United States Food and Drug Administration instituted a policy that excludes from donation anyone who spent at least six months in certain European countries, ( or three months in the United Kingdom ), from 1980 to 1996.

In 2002, United States units began operations from Djibouti with the aim of countering the possible threat of Islamic terrorism in the Horn of Africa.

The PwC research found that among FTSE 350 companies in the United Kingdom in 2002 almost 40 % of senior management posts were occupied by women.

In the United States, the primary standard for full-featured EVM systems is the ANSI / EIA-748A standard, published in May 1998 and reaffirmed in August 2002.

The Falkland Islands have a GDP of $ 105 million, and a per capita GDP of $ 35, 400 ( 2002 estimate ) placing the islands on a par with the United Kingdom ( GDP per capita of $ 35, 200 – 2009 estimate ).

* 2002 – The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

Since 2002, the new Afghan government has engaged in cordial relations with both Iran and the United States, even as relations between Iran and the United States have grown strained due to American objections to Iran's nuclear program.

In July 2002, a 14-week-old baby was attacked in a house in Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom.

Clinical trials were halted temporarily in 2002, but resumed after regulatory review of the protocol in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Germany.

With the exception of a single gray whale killed in 1999, the Makah people have been prevented from hunting by a series of legal challenges, culminating in a United States federal appeals court decision in December 2002 that required the National Marine Fisheries Service to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.

The Global Climate Coalition ( 1989 – 2002 ) was a group of mainly United States businesses opposing immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

For the most part, religious traditions in the world reserve marriage to heterosexual unions, but there are exceptions including certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, Unitarian Universalist, Metropolitan Community Church and some Anglican dioceses and some Quaker, United Church of Canada and Reform Jewish congregations .< ref >" World Religions and Same Sex Marriage ", Marriage Law Project, Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, July 2002 revision

In October 1999, the Indonesian parliament ( MPR ) revoked the decree that annexed East Timor, and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor ( UNTAET ) assumed responsibility for governing East Timor until it officially became an independent state in May 2002.

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* On December 19, 2002, AOL Time Warner announced that ICQ had been issued a United States patent for instant messaging.

His predecessors were Antonio Cassese of Italy ( 1993 – 1997 ), Gabrielle Kirk McDonald of the United States ( 1997 – 1999 ), Claude Jorda of France ( 1999 – 2002 ), Theodor Meron of the United States ( 2002 – 2005 ), Fausto Pocar of Italy ( 2005 – 2008 ) and Patrick Robinson of Jamaica ( 2008-2011 ).

* 2002 – Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.

* 2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

* 2002 – Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the US.

* 2002 – Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.

* 2002 – Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

* 2002 – " American Taliban " John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.

In early 2002, Digweed underwent a six week country-wide tour of the United States with Sasha and Jimmy Van M called Delta Heavy.

* Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948-91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002, and Pollack's book reviewed in International Security, Vol.

** Military accession and integration liaison – Tirana, from 2002 ( Albania ) – 2 out of 11 officers from 4 countries

" Strategy, Tactics, and Turf Wars: Tirpitz and the Oberkommando der Marine, 1892 – 1895 ," Journal of Military History, Oct 2002, Vol.

* Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948 – 91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002, ISBN 0-8032-3733-2

Military ties remain fraught with tension, however, and in 2002 a brief naval skirmish left four South Korean sailors dead, leaving the future of the Sunshine policy uncertain.

* Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948-91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002, and Pollack's book reviewed in International Security, Vol.

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

* Horgan, Lucille E. Forged in War: The Continental Congress and the Origin of Military Supply and Acquisition Policy ( 2002 )

A Military Programation Law ( Lei de Programação Militar ) was launched in 2002 to start the complete modernization of the Armed Forces ; considerable reequipment of the military started in 2003, with Defense Minister Paulo Portas, who managed to acquire new helicopters ( Army and Air Force ), submarines, IFV ( Army and Navy ), frigates and naval patrol boats.

The Big South Conference began sponsoring football in 2002, with Charleston Southern University, Gardner – Webb University, and Liberty University fielding teams ; Coastal Carolina University and Virginia Military Institute joined the conference as football-playing members in 2003.

Bush addressed the cadets at the U. S. Military Academy ( West Point ) on June 1, 2002, and made clear the role pre-emptive war would play in the future of American foreign policy and national defense:

* Military Heritage did a feature on frigates and included the British Rating System ( John D. Gresham, Military Heritage, February 2002, Volume 3, No. 4, pp. 12 to 17 and p. 87 ).

Jiang Zemin ( born 17 August 1926 ) is a retired Chinese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002, as President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003, and as Chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2005.

The International Directory of Military Aircraft, 2002 – 2003.

He has held the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang Zemin as the chief of the fourth generation of leadership of the Communist Party of China.

* Pollack, Kenneth, M., Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, University of Nebraska Press, ( 2002 )

The International Directory of Military Aircraft, 2002 / 2003.

In October 2002 Congress enacted the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq which authorized President George W. Bush to use force as necessary to defend the United States against Iraq and enforce relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions.

* Military History Institute of Vietnam, Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954 – 1975 ( translated by Merle Pribbenow ), Lawrence KS: University of Kansas Press, 2002.

* Douglas Biggs, “ To Aid the Custodian and Council: Edmund of Langley and the Defense of the Realm, June-July 1399 ,” Journal of Medieval Military History, I ( 2002 ), pp. 125-144.

* Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission — General Guo Boxiong ( since November 2002 )

), Fighting for Identity: Scottish Military Experience c. 1550-1900 ( Leiden, 2002 ), pp. 33 – 59.