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.

As of late 2002, the Navy had reportedly become responsible for flying all aircraft with the rivalry having subsided between the two branches of the armed forces.

MV Esperanza, a former fire-fighter owned by the Russian Navy, was relaunched by Greenpeace in 2002

President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah announced in January 2002 that the Sierra Leone Army ( SLA ) would be unified with the tiny Sierra Leone Air Force and the moribund Sierra Leone Navy to form a reconstituted force known as the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces ( RSLAF ).

US Navy BLU-118B being prepared for shipping for use in Afghanistan, 5 March 2002.

In 2002, Electric Boat conducted preservation work on the world's first nuclear powered craft, USS Nautilus, preparing her for her berth at the U. S. Navy Submarine Force Library and Museum in Groton, Connecticut, where she now resides as a museum.

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.

Past honorees have included: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( 2002 ), Senator Joe Lieberman ( 1997 ), Senator Max Cleland ( 2000 ), then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ( 1991 ), all three Secretaries of the U. S. Armed Services ( 2001 ), Congresswoman Jane Harman and Congressman Jim Saxton ( 2003 ), Indiana Senator Evan Bayh ( 2004 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace ( USMC ) ( 2005 ), Senator John McCain ( 2006 ), Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ( 2007 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen ( 2008 ), and ( 2009 ) all five chiefs of the U. S. Armed Forces and the Commander of the U. S. Special Operations Command ( U. S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr .; U. S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway ; U. S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead ; Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad W. Allen ; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz ; Commander of U. S. Special Operations Command U. S. Navy Adm. Eric T.

Prior to 2002 the office rotated among retired senior officers from the British Army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.

A Raytheon Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile during a U. S. Navy flight test at NAWS China Lake, California ( November 10, 2002 )

The stadium hosted college football games, including the Garden State Bowl from 1978 – 1981 ; the Kickoff Classic from 1983 to 2002 ; the New York Urban League Classic since 1981 ; a number of Rutgers homes games ( including all their home games during the 1993 season ); several Notre Dame – Navy and Notre Dame – Army games ; and the Army – Navy Game on three occasions, most recently in 2002.

Kathie Lee Gifford, born Kathryn Lee Epstein in Paris, France, is the daughter of Joan ( née Cuttell ; born January 20, 1930 ), a singer, and Aaron Epstein ( March 19, 1924 – November 19, 2002 ), a musician and former U. S. Navy officer.

A No. 33 Squadron B-707 refuelling a US Navy F / A-18 in 2002.

HMAS Kanimbla preparing to launch a US Navy rigid hull inflatable boat in January 2002

* Elite Forces: Navy SEALs by Jarhead Games ( 2002 )

According to author Jane Mayer, Seligman gave a talk at the Navy SERE school in San Diego in 2002, which he said was a three-hour talk on helping U. S. soldiers to resist torture, based on his understanding of learned helplessness, not on how to break down resistance in detainees.

Vice Admiral Christopher Angus ( Chris ) Ritchie AO ( born 16 January 1949 ) is a retired Vice Admiral of the Royal Australian Navy, and was Chief of Navy from 2002 to 2005.

He assumed command of the Royal Australian Navy from Chief of Navy ( CN ) Vice Admiral David Shackleton on 3 July 2002 and retired in July 2005.

By an instruction dated 31 May 2002, England directed all United States Navy ships to fly the first navy jack in honor of those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks.