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...Baghran, was said to have given up around Jan. 5. The next day, TIME met with the resolute Wahid. Most of his arsenal and troops remained intact. To this day he controls the district. After surrendering to the Kandahar governor, Jalalabad commander Mullah Salam Rakti retreated to his home base in Qalat. A day later, government soldiers sent to his residence found it locked and abandoned. "He has gone into hiding with his men," says a Qalat local. "Even his own village doesn't know where he is." At one point the Taliban's Herat police chief Mullah Abdul Samad...
...north of Kuala Lumpur on unrelated terrorism charges. FBI Director Bob Mueller traveled to Malaysia two weeks ago and offered local security officials FBI training and other incentives in exchange for access to the man. But the officials, upset because the Western press had described Malaysia as a staging base for the Sept. 11 attacks, rebuffed the FBI chief. Sources say Mueller is still optimistic that the Malaysians will come around and send the prisoner to the U.S. to testify against Moussaoui...
...Afghanistan getting ready for peace? You might think so, judging by how the price of weapons is plummeting on the streets of Bagram, outside Kabul. The town, which encompasses the base where U.S. and coalition forces are ensconced, has become a favorite of small-time weapons dealers peddling knives, Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades. One dealer tried to interest a TIME reporter in a Kalashnikov for the bargain price of $200, with 100 rounds thrown in "to close the sale." The man, who identified himself only as Abdul, said he wouldn't need his weapons anymore. "Peace has come...
Hyped by a seductively surreptitious $35 million marketing campaign, a new version of the Mini hit U.S. showrooms last week with a base sticker price of $17,000 that echoes the spirit of the original (1960 price: $1,700). The new Mini is produced by BMW, which bought struggling Mini maker Rover in 1994. The standard Mini has always been underpowered, but auto critics are raving about a zippier new 163-h.p. version, available this summer. Want electronic navigation or a six-speaker CD player? No problem. Personalize it with 100 color and trim combinations, from shift knobs to stripes...
...store restaurants - with Mo's, a new Harrods-run American diner targeted at trendy teens. Selfridges in the last seven months has refurbished its Food Hall and added two new restaurants - the Gallery, a stylish café overlooking the Prada, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Fendi boutiques, and the Base Bar, a hip sandwich eatery in the basement music department - to its existing 15 (three are concessions). Under Barat's direction, Selfridges even won the Royal Warrant for Food, an honor that allows the store to deliver groceries daily to Buckingham Palace. The recently renovated Liberty store on Regent Street...