{"id":6619,"date":"2012-08-21T09:09:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2012-08-21T09:09:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:09:39","slug":"afghan-rocket-attack-damages-us-army-chief-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/afghan-rocket-attack-damages-us-army-chief-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan rocket attack damages US army chief plane"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An insurgent rocket attack on a US air base in Afghanistan has damaged the plane of America’s top military officer while he was on a visit there.<\/div>\n

Gen Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, was not near the plane at the time but two US maintenance crew were slightly injured.<\/p>\n

The attack happened late on Monday night at the US air base in Bagram.<\/p>\n

He was in Afghanistan to discuss a growing number of attacks against Nato soldiers by Afghan security personnel.<\/p>\n

Gen Dempsey had arrived on Monday in a C-17 transport aircraft which was parked at Bagram.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0statement from Nato’s Isaf force\u00a0said shrapnel from “an indirect fire round” had damaged the plane as well as a Nato helicopter.<\/p>\n

The general was in his room at the time of the attack, according to officials.<\/p>\n

“He was nowhere near the aircraft. We think it was a lucky shot,” Nato spokesman Col Thomas Collins is quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n

Gen Dempsey had left Afghanistan by Tuesday morning using another plane.<\/p>\n

There have been insurgent attacks against the heavily fortified base, located about 30 miles (50km) north of Kabul.<\/p>\n

In May 2010 militants launched a co-ordinated assault on Bagram, injuring several Nato troops. Two US soldiers were killed in a similar attack in June 2009.<\/p>\n

Gen Dempsey’s visit to discuss so-called “green on blue” killings came after an incident on Sunday in which an Afghan in a police uniform shot dead a Nato soldier.<\/p>\n

The victim was the 10th US soldier to die in such an attack in two weeks<\/p>\n

Nato forces are due to withdraw combat troops in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, with only training troops remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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