Kabul, Afghanistan ? Two rockets were fired near a U.S. military unit in eastern Afghanistan, but nobody was hurt, an Afghan official said Monday.

Sur Gul, the security chief in the town of Khost, said the rockets were fired Sunday night at Khanadar, a village north of an airport where dozens of U.S. military personnel are based as part of a mission to search for Taliban and al-Qaida fighters.

Speaking by telephone, Gul said he did not know what kind of missiles were fired or who fired them. But he asserted that “it was from someone loyal to the Taliban who wants to destabilize Afghanistan.”

A number of missiles have been fired at or near the U.S. forces in Khost, in the restive Paktia province. Nobody has been killed, but there have been some injuries.

In another incident, which Gul said indicated continuing support for the Taliban in the area, a boy of about 15 threw a grenade at a music cassette shop in Khost on Monday, injuring the shopkeeper. The hard-line Taliban banned music during their rule, which collapsed under the pressure of the U.S.-led military assault last year.

Also Monday, a British military spokesman said two Chinese-made rockets aimed at British troops in southeastern Afghanistan were found and dismantled by a local warlord.

The 107 mm rockets, connected to crude timers, were discovered on Sunday about four miles from a British forward operating base by a warlord named Shiraz, said Royal Marines spokesman Lt. Col. Ben Curry.

“The rockets were aimed in the direction of the base and primed with a crude water system timer. Basically when the water drips out, the rockets are fired,” Curry told reporters at the main allied air base at Bagram.

“This is the first time we’ve been aware of munitions being targeted at us,” he said. There was no information about the identities of the would-be attackers.

The 16-day-old British-led mission, Operation Snipe, is part of Operation Mountain Lion, the U.S.-led search for Taliban and al-Qaida fighters in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border. The mission is backed by Afghan forces and U.S. air support and special operations troops.

Coalition forces have reported no enemy contact for weeks and say al-Qaida and Taliban fighters have scattered into small groups or fled across the border to Pakistan.

In Pakistan’s tribal belt, on the other side of the border, U.S. Special Forces have joined Pakistani troops in an attempt to flush out al-Qaida and Taliban fugitives. But Taliban holdouts in that area have told The Associated Press that their movements are only slightly restricted.

Coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan are now concentrating their efforts on gathering intelligence and seizing arms caches.

A U.S. military spokesman, Maj. Bryan Hilferty, said American and Afghan troops had found 2,000 large caliber rounds of ammunition in a cave in north-central Afghanistan.

“There’s no information that those caves have been recently accessed. So it may just be stuff left over from the Soviet war or the wars after that,” Hilferty said.

Afghan fighters battled Soviet forces that occupied the country in the 1980s and then fought among themselves after the Soviet army withdrew and the communist government collapsed.