LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Let's check in now with our Jim Clancy. He is in Kabul right now. He's got the very latest for us from the ground there. Jim, what can you tell us?</s>JIM CLANCY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As far as we can go, really, is what we are being told here in Kabul by the defense minister of the current supreme council running this country, the Northern Alliance, if you will, and the man tapped to continue in that post after December 22, when an interim government takes power for six months. General Fahim telling CNN just minutes ago that, indeed, four top Taliban commanders, senior officials if you want to call them that, are negotiating with Hamid Karzai in the Kandahar area about a surrender. But those negotiations are in progress. There is no conclusion to them right now. We heard just minutes ago from the U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that he doesn't believer that any negotiated deal is going to be accepted that does not meet the interests of the United States. That includes bringing Mullah Mohammed Omar to justice. Could something be worked out? That remains to be seen. Earlier CNN talked with Hamid Karzai about what they would do with the al Qaeda operatives that might be, still, in the Kandahar area after a transfer of power. This is what he had to say.</s>HAMID KARZAI, NORTHERN ALLIANCE GENERAL: The Taliban leadership have decided to surrender Kandahar, Helman (ph)</s>CLANCY: Hamid Karzai talking about the negotiations. We are confirming from here tonight, they are ongoing -- Leon.</s>HARRIS: Jim Clancy with these rapid developments, live from Kabul. Thank you very much.
Northern Alliance Arranges Surrender of Kandahar