Portal:Current events/2002 August 31
August 31, 2002 (Saturday)
- Recent celebrity deaths: Lionel Hampton, jazz vibraphone master, dies.
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A think tank affiliated with the Arab League ended its meeting in Cairo by calling Jews "enemies of all nations", by claiming that Arabs, as Semites, cannot be anti-Semitic, and by claiming that the events of September 11, 2001 were concocted by the United States government. See https://web.archive.org/web/20021002190634/http://www.zccf.org.ae/LECTURES/E2_lectures/e255.htm.