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Top US general's plane hit by rocket in Afghanistan Aug 21st 2012, 13:18 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19325354 Quote: 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. 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... ...Gen Dempsey had arrived on Monday in a C-17 transport aircraft which was parked at Bagram. A statement from Nato's Isaf force said shrapnel from "an indirect fire round" had damaged the plane as well as a Nato helicopter. The general was in his room at the time of the attack, according to officials. "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. Gen Dempsey had left Afghanistan by Tuesday morning using another plane.

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