A powerful Taliban truck bomb that wounded seventy-seven personnel of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force and killed five Afghans outside a combat outpost on Saturday served as a reminder of the September 11th attacks.

International Security Assistance Force spokesman, General Carsten Jacobson, discussed the situation at a press conference in Kabul on Monday.

Gen. Carsten Jacobson, ISAF Security Assistance Force spokesman, said, "The attempt was to kill ISAF personnel and to degrade the operational capability of the combat outpost. Two Afghan civilians were killed and about twenty-five were wounded, seventy-seven ISAF personnel were injured with non-life threatening injuries, the majority of injured ISAF personnel will return to duty shortly or have done so already."

No US troops were killed when the massive bomb loaded on a truck filled with firewood exploded just outside the gates of Combat Outpost Sayed Abad in eastern Wardak province.

Although the truck bombing occurred outside the base, the number of injuries it caused is significant. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

Earlier, they had issued a statement vowing to fight until all foreign troops leave.