FILE--The director of Kandahar's Peace and Reconciliation Office, Haji Aga Lalai, talks about the presence of new, more vicious Taliban fighters in the war-torn city in an interview Thursday Feb. 5, 2009. Moderate elements of the Taliban appear more willing than ever to seek accommodation with the Kabul government but they want guarantees that they will not be persecuted after they stop fighting, Lalai said. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Murray Brewster