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On Saturday morning, February 1,

2003, after a sixteen-day mission,

NASA declared an emergency

and feared the worst after losing

communication with space shuttle

Columbia as it soared over Texas

several minutes before its ex­

pected landing. The crew in­

cluded (front) Rick Husband,

Kalpana Chawla, William McCool,

(back), David Brown, Laurel

Clark, Michael Anderson, and Is­

raeli astronaut llan Ramon.

Husband’s and his wife’s

testimony garnered national atten­

tion as the nation came to terms

with its grief.

On Thursday, October 24, 2002,

a Russian police officer armed

with a Kalashnikov rifle looks at

the main entrance of the Moscow

theater which was seized by

armed Chechen gunmen. The

marquee reads "Nord-Ost," a

popular musical. Chechen rebels

holding hundreds of hostages

shot and killed one captive. The

rebels were ready to die for their

cause, warning that thousands

more of their comrades were

"keen on dying."

The charred ruins of a bomb

blast in Denpasar, Bali, Indone­

sia, were testimonies to the vio­

lence that Al Quiada cells had in­

flicted upon the international

community on Sunday, October

13, 2002. A nightclub, popular

among nationals as well as tour­

ists, was destroyed late Saturday

night, killing more than 180

people and injuring more than

300 others. A second bomb ex­

ploded about 100 yards from the

U.S. consular office in Denpasar,

the capital of Bali.