Fatima Gailani, Afghan women rights activist and adviser of the Peshawar group delegation, talks to journalists in a hotel in Koenigswinter near Bonn, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001, on the third day of the U.N. organized Talks on Afghanistan on nearby Petersberg. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Gen. Javid Kuhestani, a member of the delegation of Afghan exiles based in Peshawar, Pakistan, talks to journalists in a hotel lobby in Koenigswinter, western Germany, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001, about the U.N. talks on Afghanistan. The Peshawar delegation is one of the four groups participating in the talks. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz)

Gen. Javid Kuhestani, left, and Samiullah Safi, right, members of the delegation of Afghan exiles based in Peshawar, Pakistan, talk in a hotel lobby in Koenigswinter, western Germany, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001, about the U.N. talks on Afghanistan. The Peshawar delegation is one of the four groups participating in the talks. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz)

Unidentified members of a Peshawar, Pakistan group, representing the National Unity parties, take part in a discussion on women rights during the third day of the U.N.-sponsored Afghan factions talks in Koenigswinter near Bonn on Thursday, Nov. 29. 2001. (AP Photo/Pool)

P.K. Dzadran, a traditional dressed member of the Rome delegation of former Afghan King Zahir Shah, reaches out prior to the UN conference on Afghanistan at the Petersberg in Koenigswinter near Bonn November 27, 2001. Four Afghanistan groups gathered at the chateau-like German government guesthouse Petersberg to discuss a post-Taliban Afghan government under the aeges of the United Nations. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

A traditionally dressed member of the Peshawar group at the United Nations talks on Afghanistan enters the conference hall in Koenigswinter near Bonn November 27, 2001. Diplomats hope the talks in the secluded hilltop hotel could set up an interim Afghan leadership council of about 15 people -- akin to a cabinet -- and a larger group of more than 100 people acting as a sort of parliament before elections are held later. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)

Sayed Hamed Gailani of the Peshawar delegation attends the UN conference on Afghanistan at the Petersberg in Koenigswinter near Bonn November 27, 2001. Four Afghanistan groups gathered at the chateau-like German government guesthouse Petersberg to discuss a post-Taliban Afghan government in meetings sponsored by the United Nations. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

A. Alkozai of the Peshawar delegation passes the round table prior to the beginning of the U.N. organized Talks on Afghanistan in the German government's Petersberg guest house in Koenigswinter near Bonn, on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001. With regional stability and billions in international aid at stake, Afghan factions opened the talks Tuesday on how to share power and secure peace once the Taliban are defeated. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)
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