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...north. But American military planners remained leery of sending ground troops into the caves to root out the enemy in person. They would prefer to dispatch their far more experienced Afghan proxies to the enemy lairs if entry becomes necessary. Caves are strewn with buried mines and trip-wire grenades set to kill intruders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt for bin Laden | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

MODERATE $94 LEATHERMAN JUICE XE6 The Juice is loose: this year Leatherman premieres a line of user-friendly multitools for the rest of us. The xe6 is the most comprehensive entry; highlights include scissors, four screwdrivers, two knife blades, wire cutters, a saw, a diamond-coated file and a molded purple grip. (O.K., Leatherman calls the color thunder.) www.leatherman.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buyer's Guide: Best Of Tech | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...group may be the only contemporary rock act that matters, but its ambition often comes at the expense of warmth; the average Radiohead record is about as sweet as barbed wire. When live, however, the band opens up. The bells, whistles and scratches that dominated Kid A and Amnesiac are still there, but Thom Yorke's tenor is allowed to soar above rather than fight through them, revealing melodies in unexpected places. This set also includes the lovely True Love Waits, with its aching, Sarah McLachlan-esque chorus, "Just don't leave." What's next? A cuddly Rumsfeld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: I Might Be Wrong--Live Recordings | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...answer may be getting clearer in the wake of the feds' domestic shutdown last week of Al-Barakaat, a financial network based in Dubai--with at least six U.S. storefronts--accused of financing Osama bin Laden. The purported purpose of the U.S. sites was for Somali emigres to wire money back home. But two senior Bush Administration officials tell TIME that bin Laden was an Al-Barakaat founder and that Al-Barakaat's chief, Ahmed Nur Ali Jamale, steered money--possibly tens of millions of dollars a year--to a Somali affiliate of al-Qaeda known as Al-Ittihad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Clues Along The Money Trail | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...north. But American military planners remained leery of sending ground troops into the caves to root out the enemy in person. They would prefer to dispatch their far more experienced Afghan proxies to the enemy lairs if entry becomes necessary. Caves are strewn with buried mines and trip-wire grenades set to kill intruders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt for Osama bin Laden | 11/18/2001 | See Source »

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