AFGHANISTAN

11 US-led forces come under attacks in Afghanistan
AP[ MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2003 02:40:00 PM ]

BAGRAM: Rebel fighters fired more than a dozen rockets and mortars at
US
military positions in eastern Afghanistan, prompting a precision air
bombing from a Marine Corps jet that left at least two attackers dead,
a US
Army spokesman said Monday. The mortar and rocket fire missed their
marks,
and no US soldiers were injured, Col. Roger King told reporters at
Bagram
Air Base, the headquarters of the US-led coalition north of Kabul. The
attacks Sunday came a day after an ambush in southern Helmand province
killed two US servicemen, the first American combat deaths in
Afghanistan
since December and a sign rebel activity is increasing after the start
of
the war in Iraq.