At least two rockets were fired a building housing multi-national peacekeeping troops in Kabul early Sunday morning, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. It was not clear who was responsible was for the attack, which caused no injuries or damage and came days after Afghan officials said a plot to destabilize the interim administration had been foiled. Afghan officials said Sunday they would not rule out involvement of fundamentalist groups in the rocket attack, including remnants of the vanquished Taliban regime and followers of one-time prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. "The guards on duty at that time reported what they thought was a rocket-propelled grenade attack against the location which houses the Kabul headquarters of the multi-national brigade," Lieutenant-Colonel Neal Peckham told reporters. "The impact was merely two hundred meters from the perimeter fence" of the headquarters, he said.
Sounds like firing off rockets for the sake of firing off rockets, a way to saying "we're here" even though they can't really be effectual - yet. And it's as likely Hekmatyar men as Taliban, not that there's a great difference between the two. |