Lwara
The base at Lwara, 175km southeast of the capital Kabul, is close to the city of Khost, which has been the scene of bloody clashes between rival Afghan factions and tribes. US forces are in Afghanistan pursuing Taliban remnants and their al Qaeda allies blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks last year on New York and Washington.
Assailants fired rockets and small arms at a US military outpost in eastern Afghanistan on 15 November 2002, prompting the Americans to call in aircraft and bombs, the US military said. No soldiers were killed or injured. The raid began around dawn when unidentified attackers fired six rockets at a base in Lwara, a town in Paktia province near the Pakistani border that is home to US special operations forces. the base, which is also home to soldiers from the U.S. 82nd Airborne division.
