Afghan insurgents attacked today the U.S. Central Command base in the prison of Bagram, which left five soldiers wounded, NATO sources reported.
Spokesmen of the Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) explained to reporters in Kabul that the rebels used rocket launchers, grenades and automatic weapons against the giant military installation, about 45 miles north of Baghdad.
Bagram base also serves on the Pentagon as a center of torture and imprisonment of suspects since November 2001.
According to the official, five soldiers were wounded and seven insurgents were killed during the attack on Bagram, whose enormous airport is used by aircraft of the United States and NATO.
The assault continued with sporadic firing of rockets and light weapons outside the base.
One missile hit inside the base, causing minor damage but no insurgency broke into Bagram, according to NATO. Helicopter gunships flew over the base.
A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, reported that 20 of their fighters attacked the base on the east and west flanks and four of them detonated explosives belts in front of the enclave.
That attack came just hours after the United States and NATO register a black day yesterday with the death of eight soldiers.
Six soldiers, five Americans and one Canadian, were killed in a car bomb attack claimed by rebels caused a total of 18 killed in Kabul.
Two other soldiers were also killed in the restive southern territory, which rose to 210, including 130 Americans, the number of occupants killed since the beginning of the year in Afghanistan, according to a count of the independent website icasualties.org.
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