The war on terrorism. (Top News of 2002: January).U.S.-led military forces launched their first air strikes in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. By January, 2002, the war on terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act was well under way. U.S. soldiers searched the Afghan countryside for Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden: see bin Laden, Osama. , the leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist group, and rounded up members of Afghanistan's Taliban government. In mid-January, some of these individuals were transported to a maximum-security prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base “Gitmo” redirects here. For other uses, see Gitmo (disambiguation). For other titular locales, see . Guantánamo Bay Naval Base at the southeastern end of Cuba has been used by the United States Navy for more than a century, and is the oldest overseas U.S. in Cuba. On January 23, American John Walker Lindh
John Phillip Walker Lindh (born February 9, 1981) is an American who was captured during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan while fighting there for the Taliban. , who had joined Al Qaeda, returned to the U.S. to face murder and conspiracy charges. Lindh was sentenced to 20 years in prison in October. In late January, terrorists in Karachi, Pakistan, kidnapped Daniel Pearl, 38, a U.S. reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Pearl was targeted in part because of his Jewish heritage. A videotape later revealed that Pearl was murdered by his captors. |
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