1.   The Taliban said it would release eight detained aid workers, two of them American, if Bush would call off the threat of attack.

2.   Also arriving with expectations of seeing the detained aid workers were diplomats from Germany, the United States and Australia.

3.   Also arriving aboard a chartered United Nations aircraft and with expectations of seeing the detained aid workers were diplomats from Germany, the United States and Australia.

4.   As of Saturday the supplies brought by the diplomats for the detained aid workers, including letters from home, had not been delivered.

5.   Before leaving Kabul, the Pakistani delegation met with eight detained aid workers being tried on charges of illegally preaching Christianity, the official said.

6.   Case against detained aid workers, including two Americans,

7.   For the family members of the detained aid workers the waiting has been excruciating.

8.   However the Red Cross in both Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan say they have not been received Taliban permission to visit the detained aid workers.

9.   Late Wednesday three of the detained aid workers, all women, returned briefly to their home in Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood of Kabul.

10.   Late Wednesday, three of the detained aid workers, all women, returned briefly to their homes in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood of Kabul.