KABUL: Afghan Taliban has attacked Bagram airport 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, according to US military spokesman.
The attack on the plane of U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey represented yet another threat by the Taliban as they already 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.
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According to coalition spokesman Jamie Graybeal, two maintenance workers were slightly injured by shrapnel from the two rockets that were fired into Bagram Air Field outside Kabul on Monday night, General Dempsey "was nowhere near" the plane when the rockets hit near where the aircraft was parked.
He added that General 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.
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