Top US General Plane Hit by Rocket in Afghanistan
<div class='node-body'><p>Afghan militants fired into the sprawling Bagram airbase in Afghanistan on Monday night damaging an aircraft used by U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Martin Dempsey.</p>
<p>According to NATO senior spokesman Colonel Thomas Collins, Dempsey "<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/top-u-generals-aircraft-damaged-rockets-afghanistan-081309091.html?_esi=1">was nowhere near the aircraft. We think it was a lucky shot</a>." Two <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19325354">US maintenance crew members were injured</a> in the attack.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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