Year In Photos: War On Terror

Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan by Islamic militants in January while researching a story, is shown in this photo sent to the newspaper by his kidnappers Jan. 27.

A robot lifts the body of Mohammed Tawfiq Shamali to check it for possible explosives outside a supermarket in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Efrat, south of Bethlehem Feb. 22, 2002. Shamali, 24, tried to set off a bomb in Efrat, wounding a woman before being shot and killed, clouding first attempts to ease Israeli-Palestinian tensions.

U.S. Navy SEALs investigate a cache of munitions in one of the more than 70 caves explored in the Zhawar Kili area of eastern Afghanistan, Jan. 14, 2002. The Pentagon is planning to expand its use of special operations troops, including those that operate covertly in tandem with the CIAs paramilitary force, officials and private experts say.

Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge unveils a color-coded terrorism warning system March 12, 2002, in Washington. The five-level system is a response to public complaints that broad terror alerts issued by the government since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks raised alarm without providing useful guidance.

Aeurobi Beandalis an alleged member of the terror organization al Qaeda, wears an eye mask as he is driven out of the the regional superior court in Frankfurt, Germany, April 16, 2002. Five Algerian men charged with planning to blow up the Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, went on trial April 16, 2002.

Pakistani paramilitary troops escort Mohammad Imran, second right, and Mohammad Hanif, second left, members of Islamic militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen, to be presented to the press at a news conference, July 8, 2002 in Karachi, Pakistan. Three Islamic militant suspects, including the two members shown, were charged with the deadly bombing at the U.S. Consulate.

A member of the Charlotte Fire Department hazardous materials team washes off in the decontamination area after participating in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg's Advanced Local Emergency Response Team's mock terrorism drill, Sept. 30, 2002. Multiple agencies participated in the exercise to demonstrate terrorism response capabilities.

Petty Officer Jason Miele of the Maritime Safety and Security Team (MSST), the new Coast Guard "SWAT" unit commissioned in response to the Sept. 11 terror attacks, stands guard near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, Sept. 19, 2002.

Pakistani police escort an unidentified gunman who was arrested after a gunbattle between police and suspected al Qaeda members in Karachi, Pakistan, in this Sept. 11, 2002 photo. A local police officer identified the man in this photo as Ramzi Binalshibh, believed to be a key planner of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

U.S. Marines disembark from the U.S Marine helicopter CH-53E Super Stallion, during a joint military exercise in Palayan, Nueva Ecija province in the northern Philippines, Oct. 23, 2002. A total of 600 U.S. and Filipino soldiers currently are taking part in the military exercise with a new theme of battling global terrorism.

Unidentified tourists carry their luggage past the site of a bomb blast at Kuta Beach on the Indonesian island of Bali, Oct. 14, 2002. Terrorism hit Asia when the bomb wrecked a night club here, killing nearly 200 people, mainly young Western tourists.

PFC Yolanda Harrison, left, gives her niece Mykia a kiss after a departure ceremony at the Armed Forces Reserve Center on West Oxmoor Road in Homewood, Ala., Nov. 5, 2002. About 85 members of the Alabama National Guard's 167th Theater Support Command have been called to active duty in the war on terrorism.

Smokes rises from the French oil tanker Limburg as it blazes off the Yemeni coastal town of al-Mukalla, south of the capital San'a, in this picture from Oct. 6, 2002. France said it would not bow to terrorism and demanded that Yemen to catch and punish those responsible for an attack on the Limburg.

An anti-U.S. demonstrator wearing a cloth symbolizing the U.S. flag performs during a rally near the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Oct. 21, 2002. Thousands of left-wing protesters marched through Manila, warning that proposed government anti-terror measures could threaten human rights and democracy and create restiveness that terrorists could exploit.

U.S. President George W. Bush, right, Secretary of State Colin Powell, left, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, center, participate in the North Atlantic Council Summit, Nov. 21, 2002 in Prague. In a historic eastward shift, NATO expanded beyond the borders of the former Soviet Union amid a makeover designed to answer global terrorism.

Special forces officers enter the theater in Moscow, where hundreds of hostages were being held by Chechen rebels, while unidentified people leave the building Oct. 26, 2002. The four-day siege ended after Russian special forces stormed the building, killing the 41 hostage-takers. At least 129 of the hostages also died from the effects of a narcotic gas used to knock out the militants.

An undated file photo of an Air Force RQ-1 Predator. Opening up a new front in the war on terror, U.S. forces launched a pinpoint missile strike at a car in Yemen Nov. 4, 2002, killing Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, a top al Qaeda operative. Al-Harethi's car was struck by a Hellfire air-to-ground missile, believed to have been conducted by an unpiloted CIA aircraft.

Amanda Serrano holds photos of her and her husband, Karim Tebbakh, in front of a camera at a theater space in New York Nov. 29, 2002. Tebbakh is still being detained by the U. S. government as a material witness following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Bodies of dancers dressed in traditional garb are shown in rubble of the demolished Paradise Hotel in Kikambala, Kenya, after a car bomb exploded, Nov. 28, 2002. At least 11 people were killed. In a simultaneous attack on Israeli tourists elsewhere in Kenya, at least two missiles were fired at an Israeli airliner that had just departed the Mombasa.

Soldiers of the U.S. 82nd airborne escort an Afghan detainee after flex-cuffing and blindfolding him during Operation Alamo Sweep in southeastern Afghanistan Nov. 7, 2002. The U.S. military refers to people detained on missions in Afghanistan for questioning as "Persons under control (PUC)" and routinely transfers them to a central detention center in Afghanistan for further questioning.