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Suspected Taliban Rocket Fired at ISAF Base in Kabul

The attack is the latest in a series of operations against foreign troops in Afghanistan

KABUL, September 26 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A suspected Taliban rocket was fired at a military base housing international peacekeepers in the Afghan capital Kabul late Thursday, September 26, but there were no casualties, a military spokesman said.

Squadron Leader Terry Hay said the device was fired near a base housing German members of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on a road east of the city, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

"I can confirm there was something, whether it was a missile or a rocket we do not know. It appeared to go north to south over Camp Warehouse where the German brigade is located," Hay told AFP.

"All we can say is there were no injuries. Some patrols went to look at where it appeared to come from, but we have no further reports."

Hay said the projectile was fired just before 5:00 pm (1230 GMT), but fell some distance from the base, home to around 2,000 German ISAF soldiers.

The incident is the latest in a series of operations against foreign troops in Afghanistan.

Only last week a missile was discovered on the outskirts of Kabul aimed at international passenger jet flight paths, said AFP.

Earlier in the month nine sticks of dynamite were discovered on a fully-loaded aviation fuel tanker bound for a nearby U.S. airbase, added AFP.

Intelligence experts say the series of attacks were the work of Taliban and Al-Qaeda still operating in Afghanistan.

Taliban official spokesman Sayed Mohamed Tayeb Agha told IslamOnline that negotiations are under way between Taliban leader Mulah Omar and former Afghan prime minister and Hizb-I-Islami (Islamic Party) leader Ghulbuddin Hekmatyar to continue joint efforts against foreign troops in Afghanistan.

Taliban and Hizb-I-Islami have managed to mount a number of joint operations against foreign troops in the country, and the Mujahedin are waiting for orders from both sides to conduct further joint operations.

"Capturing [Ossama] Bin Laden was not the main target of the U.S. war on Afghanistan; America’s aim was to control Afghanistan," Agha said, adding that the fate of the Americans in the country will be just like that of those who came before them - the Russians.

A plan to oust the current traitor government in Afghanistan is ready, the Taliban spokesman said.

Regardless of the status quo, Taliban still controls 80% of Afghanistan, except for the capital Kabul and a number of other big cities.    

 

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