Top U.S. general’s plane damaged in Afghanistan attack

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KABUL — A plane belonging to the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff was apparently attacked by insurgents in Afghanistan on Tuesday.

Militants fired rockets at the Bagram Airfield outside Kabul, and shrapnel hit Army Gen. Martin Dempsey’s C-17 military plane, according to NATO officials. Dempsey was not in the plane at the time, but several members of the maintenance crew suffered minor injuries. A helicopter also was damaged.

“The chairman was in his room at the time of the incident and was unharmed,” said Maj. Lori Hodge, a spokeswoman for NATO forces in the country. “Due to some exterior damage to General Dempsey’s aircraft, he left Afghanistan on a different military plane.”

Officials said that “indirect fire” on the airfield, such as rockets and mortar shells that are not aimed by line of sight, is not uncommon. They said they did not think the plane was targeted because it belonged to Dempsey.

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