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| Attack temporarily shuts Afghanistan's Herat airport |
| 2009-12-05 |
| [Dawn] Suspected Taliban militants fired at least one rocket into western Afghanistan's biggest airport on Friday, causing a temporary disruption to flights, officials said. Local police said the insurgents fired three rockets just outside a village in the Guzara district of Herat province, two slammed into the Herat air strip. 'The enemy fired three rockets at the airport which caused no casualties, only damaging the runway,' said provincial police spokesman Noor Khan Nikzad. The airport is part of a military base for the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf). An Isaf spokeswoman confirmed the rocket attack. 'Herat airport was hit by a rocket earlier today. There was some damage but it is being assessed. The airport was temporarily closed but is now operational,' Staff Sergeant Angela Eggman told AFP. After the attack, police said officers rushed to the launch site where the militants had turned a tractor trailer into a mobile launch pad but fled. Herat, less than an hour's drive from the border with Iran, is the second most prosperous city in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |