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发帖数: 901 | 1 Insurgents fired two rockets at the main NATO airbase in Afghanistan,
damaging an aircraft used by U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Martin
Dempsey, a NATO spokesman said on Tuesday. The general was not on board at
the time.
Dempsey arrived in the country on Monday in a C-17 transport aircraft which
was parked at Bagram Airbase, north of Kabul, when two rockets landed near
the apron 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.
Shrapnel from 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, was sleeping in his
quarters when the rounds struck and left the country afterwards on another
aircraft.
"No one was seriously injured in the attack," a Pentagon spokeswoman said.
Bagram, which is home to around 30,000 military and civilian personnel, is
occasionally targeted with rockets and mortar shells fired by insurgents
from surrounding hills and fields. In 2007, the heavily guarded base was
targeted during a visit by former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney. | s*********8
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