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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (42462)	4/26/2002 8:26:53 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

A forward operating base for US troops has come under rocket attack in eastern Afghanistan, a US military spokesman said Friday. Major Bryan Hilferty said the attack occured Thursday but there were no injuries and it was unclear who fired the rocket. “One of our forward operating bases came under attack yesterday in eastern Afghanistan. A rocket landed nearby,” he told AFP at this coalition base 50 kilometres north of Kabul. “There were no injuries. It did not land in our compound.” American and coalition forces are concentrating their search for remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists in the mountainous east of the country. US sources said it was possible their forces had been caught in crossfire between rival warlords. “Once again we do not know for sure if they are aimed at us,” one officer said. On Monday three mortars landed near a coalition base in Gardez, the capital of eastern Paktia province where US-led forces raided a fortified Taliban and al-Qaeda mountain stronghold in March. Hilferty said Afghan and US forces had also recovered a weapons and ammunition cache belonging to former Taliban soldiers in the east of the country following a tipoff from local villagers. The store included small calibre weapons and mortar rounds. Remaining Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters are believed to have gathered in eastern Afghanistan where the the local population has traditionally been seen as sympathetic to their cause. Hilferty said the latest find was proof that locals were prepared to help the US-led war effort. “The fact that the local villagers are helping us in our search for al-Qaeda is gratifying,” he said. He refused to comment on reports in the US press that American special forces were operating on Pakistani territory along the border, although he said cooperation was continuing with Islamabad at senior levels. “US military forces have provided liaison elements to work with the senior Pakistani military leadership,” he said.