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.