Afghan Rocket Misses French General, Kills 3 Kids

Insurgents target marketplace meeting

By Kevin Spak

Posted Nov 16, 2009 8:40 AM CST

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Afghan Rocket Misses French General, Kills 3 Kids — NATO French Foreign Legion soldiers respond to a mortar attack during operation Avallon in the Tagab Valley, some 50 kilometers east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday Nov. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A rocket attack intended for a French general instead killed three children and wounded 20 others in a busy market northeast of Kabul today. Insurgents fired into the marketplace hoping to hit a meeting between Brig. Gen. Marcel Druart and tribal elders from Tagab Valley, where France is in the midst of a major offensive. Neither Druart nor any of his troops were harmed.

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