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...killed or negotiates to surrender. The other names the 20 or so top al-Qaeda terrorists Washington wants, starting with Osama bin Laden. Most of the names accompany color photographs of varying quality. When good news comes in, a fresh version is printed with a bold INJ or KIA (injured or killed) printed across the picture. "If there's nothing there," says a Pentagon official, "it means he's a work in progress...
...Qaeda list are thought to be dead; perhaps 12 of those on the Taliban list have been killed or wounded or have defected. On Saturday came word that the Taliban governor of Kandahar and a dozen of his commanders could be marked KIA, after a U.S. bomb took them out in a village outside the city...
...Qaeda military-operations chief suspected of planning the Sept. 11 attacks, who was killed in a mid-November air strike. Two other high-ranking al-Qaeda lieutenants, Egyptians Fahmi Nasr (also known as Mohammed Salah) and Tariq Anwar, senior leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, have also been marked KIA. The top commander of an al-Qaeda ally, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, has reportedly been eliminated as well. But in some ways, Pentagon officials are even more eager to interrogate those taken alive. Defense Department officers have heard that Taliban intelligence chief Qari Ahmadullah is either in Northern Alliance custody...
Hyundai and Kia are defying a tradition that has put all their compatriots out of business except Daewoo, which is sputtering. As Korea lurched toward democracy and full-scale industrialization in the late 1980s, labor unrest worsened quality problems in carmaking and other industries. The Asian financial crisis struck another blow in 1997. Kia (then independent) went bust, to be absorbed by Hyundai. Daewoo, Korea's second largest automaker, filed for bankruptcy last year with estimated debts of $17 billion. Its fate now depends largely on whether General Motors can negotiate a takeover...
More important, offerings from both Hyundai and Kia seem to have cleared the quality hurdles that were once so debilitating to each company. Reilly, who just opened a second dealership in Alexandria, Va., says warranty claims are down 50%. Meanwhile, according to AutoPacific, an industry consultancy, customer satisfaction is up: the organization has just ranked the Santa Fe as America's top compact SUV. Says AutoPacific president George Peterson: "This is a testament to the excellent progress Hyundai is making in product development...