As for the future of Afghanistan, officials at talks near Bonn, Germany, aimed at creating an interim government indicate there may be breakthroughs. The Northern Alliance has finally proposed candidates for the interim government, following proposals by other groups at the negotiations, they said.  In addition, a Northern Alliance spokesman in Kabul said the Alliance would be ready to transfer power to an interim government, and that Burhanuddin Rabbani, the Northern Alliance leader, would not be its head. He also indicated the alliance might be flexible on the issue of allowing foreign peacekeepers, which has been a sticking point.  According to a diplomatic source, Rabanni was pressured to yield on some issues to allow the talks to move forward by UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, officials from the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Iran and an official from President Bush's National Security Council, who reminded him that this meeting represented a unique opportunity and that reconstruction money depended on an agreement.  A daily United Nations briefing in Bonn was postponed at least six hours from its normal time as the parties continue negotiations.  However, a senior Western diplomat suggested to ABCNEWS that the hopes of an agreement tonight were just wishful thinking. The diplomat noted that the delegates had yet to get to the hard part  actually bargaining over the people to sit in the interim administration. In addition, German officials are now indicating that Monday might be a more likely day for reaching an agreement than Sunday.  Hunting for Key Figures As opposition leaders in Germany worked to form the next government of Afghanistan, others were busy dismantling the previous one in Afghanistan. The Northern Alliance has agreed to turn over to U.S. authorities Ahmed Omar Abdel-Rahman  a son of the blind Egyptian cleric imprisoned in the United States for conspiring to bomb New York City landmarks. The younger Abdel-Rahman, who goes by the nom de guerre Seif Allah  "Sword of God"  is believed to part of Osama bin Laden's inner circle. Speaking on ABCNEWS' Primetime on Thursday, Vice President Dick Cheney said he did not rule out the possibility that Abdel-Rahman could be tried by a U.S. military tribunal. "A high-ranking al Qaeda official captured in Afghanistan who's been involved in the organization is exactly the kind of individual that the tribunals were established for," said Cheney. Animal Aid  As opposition leaders in Germany worked to form the next government of Afghanistan, others were busy dismantling the previous one in Afghanistan.  The Northern Alliance has agreed to turn over to U.S. authorities Ahmed Omar Abdel-Rahman  a son of the blind Egyptian cleric imprisoned in the United States for conspiring to bomb New York City landmarks.  The younger Abdel-Rahman, who goes by the nom de guerre Seif Allah  "Sword of God"  is believed to part of Osama bin Laden's inner circle.  Speaking on ABCNEWS' Primetime on Thursday, Vice President Dick Cheney said he did not rule out the possibility that Abdel-Rahman could be tried by a U.S. military tribunal.  "A high-ranking al Qaeda official captured in Afghanistan who's been involved in the organization is exactly the kind of individual that the tribunals were established for," said Cheney.  Zoos and aquariums in North America kicked off a campaign this week to raise money to keep the zoo in Kabul, Afghanistan, running, to repair it and send a vet to tend to the animals. When it was built in 1970, the zoo held more than 500 animals and was well regarded for a zoo in that part of the world. Now, its buildings are shattered by bullets and bombs, water and electric lines are damaged, there is no heat as winter sets in, and the number of animals has dwindled to about 50  including a handful of monkeys, wolves and an old lion blinded in one eye five years ago by a soldier's hand grenade. David Jones, director of the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, is organizing the effort, and said the response from animal lovers in America has been overwhelming. "The last two days we've had four phone lines ringing continuously," he said. "As of [Friday] night, we'd collected over $40,000 in under 48 hours."  A U.S. military official confirms that Northern Alliance troops guarding the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul stopped a car loaded with explosives earlier this week. The hotel is the home for many Western journalists and it is believed the explosives were to be used to blow up the building. A British newspaper, The Guardian, reported that Taliban leader Omar has offered a $50,000 bounty to any Afghan gunman who shoots a Western journalist.  A U.S Air Force spokesman said the number of food packages dropped by the United States over Afghanistan topped 2 million.  The official count of the dead or missing from the World Trade Center attack continues to drop, as officials collate the various lists of people feared lost. New York City officials say 3,553 people are dead or missing, and they have identified 625 bodies. That number includes the 92 people on board American Airlines Flight 11 and the 65 on United Airlines Flight 175  but not the hijackers.  ABCNEWS' Bob Woodruff in Kabul, John McWethy at the Pentagon, JohnYang in Germany, Bob Hardt, and pool reporters with 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Southern Afghanistan contributed to this report.
As the battle for the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar continues, a spokesman for the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance says Osama bin Laden may be in southern Afghanistan preparing for guerilla war, rather than where U.S. officials believe he is.