Afghan insurgents hit top US general's plane with rockets

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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.

"He was nowhere near the aircraft. We think it was a lucky shot," Nato senior spokesman Colonel Thomas Collins said.

The aircraft was only being used temporarily by Dempsey and his staff. The rockets also damaged a nearby helicopter.

Dempsey, who had been in the country for talks with Nato and Afghan commanders on a string of recent rogue shootings, left Afghanistan on another aircraft.