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Afghan insurgents hit top US general’s plane with rockets

guardian.co.uk
Reuters in Kabul

Insurgents fired two rockets at the main Nato airbase in Afghanistan on Tuesday, damaging an aircraft used by US joint chiefs of staff chairman, Martin Dempsey, a Nato spokesman said. The general was not on board at the time.

Dempsey arrived in the country on Monday in a C-17 transport aircraft that was parked at Bagram airbase, north of Kabul, when two rockets landed late on Monday night, slightly wounding two ground staff.

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