1.   The Taliban refused, and U.S. officials apparently abandoned diplomatic efforts to negotiate the handover of bin Laden.

2.   Pashtun tribal leaders who oppose the Taliban are trying to negotiate the handover of Kandahar.

3.   A southern opposition group has said Omar was negotiating a handover of power in Kandahar to Haji Basher, a tribal leader who is affiliated with the Taliban.

4.   Efforts by tribal leaders to negotiate a handover of the city have failed to yield results.

5.   Habibi, interviewed by satellite telephone Monday, said the Taliban commanders in the city were being prevented from negotiating a handover.

6.   Habibi, interviewed by satellite telephone Monday, also said the Taliban commanders in the city were being prevented from negotiating a handover of the city.

7.   Mandela last month successfully negotiated the handover for trial by Libya of two Libyans accused of blowing up a Pan Am jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland.

8.   South Korea wants to send a rice shipment to the North, but says it has to negotiate the handover.

9.   The airport project took seven years, and was a major cause of dispute between China and Britain as they negotiated the handover.

10.   The Taliban have denied they are willing to negotiate a handover of Kandahar.