Kabul, May 29: Rebel fighters fired rockets at a base housing American and Afghan troops in eastern Afghanistan, but there were no casualties or damages, a senior Afghan military official said today. Three rockets were fired late yesterday near a base in Gardez, the capital of eastern Paktia province, about 150 kilometres south of the capital Kabul, said Gen Attiqullah Lodeen, the head of Afghan Army Corps in Gardez. It was not clear how close the rockets impacted to the base. Rockets are fired at us troops bases in Afghanistan almost every day, but they rarely hit targets or cause casualties. Usually, they are fired from crude homemade launchers and are difficult to aim.

US troops are stationed in many parts of Afghanistan to hunt down Taliban and al-Qaeda fugitives, wanted for their role in the September 11 attacks in the United States.


Lodeen blamed the latest attack on remnants of the ousted Taliban regime and fighters loyal to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former Prime Minister who now lives in hiding and is opposed to the presence of US troops in the country. Bureau Report