Homeland Security

U.S. Department of State Patterns of Global Terrorism 2002

April 30, 2003

The annual "Patterns of Global Terrorism" report, released April 2003 by the Secretary of State and the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, is submitted in compliance with Title 22 of the United States Code, Section 2656f(a), which requires the Department of State to provide Congress a full and complete annual report on terrorism for those countries and groups meeting the criteria of Section (a)(1) and (2) of the Act.

All these files are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format

• Introduction [PDF 14.4Mb]
• Table of Contents [PDF 314Kb]
• The Year in Review [PDF 991Kb]
• Africa Overview [PDF 314Kb] [PDF 1.53Mb]
• South Asia Overview [PDF 4.39Mb]
• East Asia Overview [PDF 2.04Mb]
• Eurasia Overview [PDF 1.53Mb]
• Europe Overview [PDF 2.04Mb]
• Middle East Overview [PDF 2.09Mb]
• Western Hemisphere [PDF 850Kb]
• Overview of State-Sponsored Terrorism [PDF 304Kb]
• Appendix A: Chronology of Significant Terrorist Incidents, 2002 [PDF 419Kb]
• Appendix B: Background Information on Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations [PDF 236Kb]
• Appendix C: Background Information on Other Terrorist Groups [PDF 202Kb]
• Appendix D: U.S. Programs and Policy [PDF 264Kb]
• Appendix E: The U.S. Military Counterterrorism Campaign in 2002: A Summary [PDF 86Kb]
• Appendix F: Countering Terrorism on the Economic Front [PDF 92Kb]
• Appendix G: Iraq and Terrorism [PDF 121Kb]
• Appendix H: Statistical Review [PDF 9.59Mb]