US base attacked

Published July 13, 2002

BAGRAM AIR BASE, July 12: A compound being used by US special forces in central Afghanistan was attacked with small arms, US officials said on Friday.

There were no reported casualties from Thursday night’s incident at the mud-walled compound in Tarin Kowt, the capital of Uruzgan province.

Colonel Roger King, a US spokesman at Bagram air base, north of Kabul, said he did not believe attacks against Americans had increased.

“We are in the middle of a war — people do get shot at,” King said. “But I don’t necessarily say there’s been an increase or decrease of enemy activity over the short term.”—Reuters

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