1.   American special forces with anti-Taliban allies are now monitoring the weapons surrender, Franks said, and he acknowledged that some Taliban may be escaping.

2.   Any Republican leader who proposed a weapons surrender would be vulnerable to hard-liner charges that he is a traitor.

3.   U.S. Special Forces with anti-Taliban allies are now monitoring the weapons surrender, Franks said, acknowledging that some Taliban might be escaping.

4.   Weapons surrender has been the great failure of the talks.

5.   Abdullah Bugayev, deputy prime minister in the Moscow-backed government, said Shali elders have persuaded the rebels to accept Russian demands for weapons surrender.