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Following two days of negotiations with the new Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai, the Taliban agreed to surrender its last stronghold of Kandahar.Reporters on the ground say the Taliban has already transferred control of the Kandahar airport, the stage of particularly brutal fighting, to ethnic Pashtun armies.Hamid Karzai, poised to take power of Afghanistan Dec. 22, said the Taliban in Kandahar and its surrounding regions would begin tur
mizuno ning in weapons to anti-Taliban commanders Mullah Naqib Ullah and Sher Agha, both leaders of Pashtun armies, tomorrow.Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban former ambassador to Pak
stanley cup istan, said the Taliban agreed that Ullah, a member of the Jamiat-e-Islami party of the former president Burhanuddin Rabbani and current leader of an anti-Taliban army, would become governor of Kandahar following the Taliban surrender.Zaeef said that the Taliban conceded Kandahar to prevent further civilian casualties from intensifying U.S. bombing.Both sides, the Taliban and Karzai, agreed to the surrender of Kandahar for the welfare of the people to decrease the casualties to life and to protect the dignity of the people, Zaeef told reporters.Karzai and Zaeef, however, gave c
stanley cup onflicting accounts on details of the surrender agreement, particularly pertaining to the fate of the Taliban supreme leader. Since the U.S. military campaign began nearly 60 days ago, Mullah Mohammad Omar has vowed a fight till the death, calling on
