8 Militants Killed After Attack on NATO Base in Afghanistan.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Eight Taliban insurgents were killed Wednesday after they attacked the NATO air base in the eastern Afghanistan border city of Jalalabad using a suicide car bomb and rocket-propelled grenades in a failed attempt to breach the gate, NATO said. The attack, similar to one carried out at Bagram Air Base near Kabul in May, began at 7:30 a.m. when a suicide bomber driving a car detonated his explosives at the eastern gate of the base. The explosion was followed by militants launching grenades and firing other weapons. The attack appeared to be intended to generate publicity and remind people of the Taliban presence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]