Obama’s Peace Partners Fire Rockets at Top US General’s Plane – 2 US Personnel Hurt

In May Barack Obama announced he was holding “peace talks” with the Taliban.

Today Taliban militants fired rockets at the plane of US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey. Two military personnel on the ground were injured in the attack.
The AP reported:

The plane of the U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, was damaged after Taliban militants fired rockets at Bagram Air Field.

A military official told ABC News the attack occurred just after midnight local time at Bagram Air Field outside Kabul when Dempsey’s C-17 plane was hit by fragments of indirect fire from two rockets. Dempsey was safely back in his room when the attack occurred and was not hurt in the blast. Two maintenance people working nearby sustained minor injuries.

Due to the exterior damage of the aircraft, Dempsey and his team left Bragman on a different C-17 plane. The attack also caused slight damage to an Apache helicopter that was parked nearby.

Dempsey was in Afghanistan to discuss the state of the war after a particularly deadly few weeks for Americans in the more than 10-year-old Afghan war.

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