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It was an "insurgent attack", Isaf said, rather than an insider incident as initially thought.

Anger at civilian deaths caused by the military may be driving an increase in "green-on-blue" incidents in which men in Afghan army uniforms attack ISAF personnel, including last week's slaying of a U.S. two-star general.

A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahed, said militants had attacked Isaf troops in Sarobi and blown up a number of vehicles.

There were no government casualties and one civilian was lightly wounded, according to the province's police chief, Gen. Dulat Khan Zadran, who said Afghan forces handled the attack without ISAF support.

Recent high-profile insurgent attacks have often used suicide bombs to commence complex attacks, but ISAF said there was no attempt by others to enter the base.

The headlines created by such violence are disproportionate to their military significance: Haqqani operations account for one-tenth of the attacks on ISAF troops, and perhaps 15 percent of casualties, senior American officials estimate.

Under real threat of attack in the south, ISAF troops will require less restrictive rules of engagement, though they are unlikely to seek fights in the way the Americans do.

"Yesterday a group of suspected insurgents, believed to be en route to attack a joint Afghan-ISAF unit, was engaged by an airborne weapons team resulting in a number of individuals killed and wounded," the American-led International Security Assistance Force, also known as ISAF, said in a statement released Monday.

The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said the attack on its forward operating base in Nangahar province lasted two hours.

MORE than 13 years after NATO launched its invasion of Afghanistan following the attacks of September 11th, its International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) this week lowered the flag at its headquarters in Kabul, the capital.

In September, it took the authorities about 20 hours to completely subdue a Taliban attack on the United States Embassy and ISAF headquarters; more than 20 people died in all, although none of the victims were from the embassy or the coalition military.