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rocket attack in Afghanistan
(AFP), Khaleej
Times, 31 May 2003
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan - Unknown attackers fired rockets at two US bases in southeast and eastern Afghanistan but there were no casualties, a US military spokesman said on Saturday.
A base in Asadabad,
Kunar province, 180 kilometres northeast of Kabul, came under attack
Saturday morning, US Colonel Rodney Davis told reporters at Bagram Air
Base, 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Kabul.
“One rocket impacted
outside of 500 meters (yards) of the fire base at Asadabad this
morning,” he said. Attackers
fired two rockets at a fire base at Urgon-e in southeast Paktika province
on Friday, again without causing any casualties. Davis was unable to say
who fired the rockets but similar attacks have been blamed on Taliban
holdouts and their Al Qaeda allies. Rockets are the weapon of
choice for Taliban and Al Qaeda extremists but they are inaccurate and
rarely hit their targets or cause any casualties. Two rockets landed in a
US base in neighbouring Paktia province on Wednesday but did not cause any
casualties or damage. Eighteen
months after the toppling of the Taliban, militia remnants and Al Qaeda
fighters continue to launch regular attacks on foreign and government
targets, especially in the south and southeast of the country in provinces
bordering Pakistan. Davis said there had been
a cyclical increase in attacks on US and coalition bases with the coming
of the warmer spring and summer weather. “I wouldn’t want to
speculate as to whether or not there has been an increase in attacks
(overall),” he said. “I could just say verifiably that we have seen
more attacks in spring, in warmer months, than we had in winter.” Spring is the traditional
fighting season in Afghanistan after the end of the bitter winter and the
opening of mountain passes impassable in winter. A US-led coalition force
of more than 11,500 troops is currently hunting Taliban and Al Qaeda
holdouts.
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