Islamist sources said Afghanistan's ruling Taliban...

Islamist sources said Afghanistan's ruling Taliban were considering a prisoner swap with the United States as a trial in Kabul of eight foreign aid workers for promoting Christianity -a charge that carries the death penalty - began its third day.
There has been no public comment from the hardline Taliban movement on the swap deal proposed by relatives of blind Egyptian militant Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, currently serving life for terrorism.
Sheikh Omar, spiritual leader of Egypt's main militant group a-Gama's al-Islamiya (Islamic Group), was convicted in 1995 of plotting to blow up the World Trade Centre, bomb the United Nations, kill Egypt's president and destroy New York tunnels.