Militants fired rockets into a U.S. base in Afghanistan and damaged
the plane of the chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff while he was
on a visit, but the general was not near the aircraft, a spokesman for
the U.S.-led military coalition said Tuesday.
The
attack on the plane of U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey represented yet
another propaganda coup for the Taliban after they claimed to have shot
down a U.S. helicopter last week. It also followed a string of
disturbing killings of U.S. military trainers by their Afghan partners
or militants dressed in Afghan uniforms.
Two
maintenance workers were slightly injured by shrapnel from the two
rockets that were fired into Bagram Air Field outside Kabul on Monday
night, coalition spokesman Jamie Graybeal said.
Dempsey "was nowhere near" the plane when the rockets hit near where the aircraft was parked, Graybeal said.
The
spokesman added that Dempsey had finished his mission in Afghanistan
and had left by Tuesday morning, though it was unclear what plane he
flew out on or how badly the targeted plane was damaged.
Dempsey
was in Afghanistan to discuss the state of the war after a particularly
deadly few weeks for Americans in the more than 10-year-old Afghan war.
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