Targeting U.S. aircraft Chief of Staff

Martin Dempsey middle of a group of international forces in Kabul (French)

A spokesman North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Tuesday that two missiles fired by gunmen subsequently damaged plane used by the U.S. Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey in the U.S. Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
The Colonel Thomas Collins, General Dempsey was not on board at the time of the attack. "It was not Dempsey anywhere close to the plane."
Earlier in the day, said Lt. Col. Dave Lapan, spokesman Dempsey The damage to the plane, which was parked at the airport in Bagram vast and which is the largest military base U.S. air in the country, paid Chief of Staff to use another plane to leave Afghanistan this afternoon after two-day visit for this country.
The plane - a model of "C-17" - parked on the runway near other aircraft, according to the same spokesman, who pointed out that two U.S. soldiers assigned to clean the wound in the attack aircraft. He stressed that the attack did not constitute a threat to the security of General Dempsey and his team who were asleep when it occurs, as mentioned other officers.
WithdrawalOn the other hand, the New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said today New Zealand troops remaining in Afghanistan will return to the country in April / April. He added that he was scheduled based on the timing of withdrawal Japanese plan to begin the modernization of airport runway in May / May next Bamiyan province in central Afghanistan, where stationed Provincial Reconstruction Team New Zealand consisting of 140 personnel.
He explained so that this project would make the airport unusable for at least six months, which means that the New Zealand team based in the region since 2003 will not be able to get out of the region in the next year and according to the date specified. And added, "If you do not leave by April / April, we will have to use the land route to transport our personnel to Kabul."
The five people New Zealanders died in the region this month, prompting the order to say it was unacceptable risk the lives of the dead, since the withdrawal of using the road makes the vehicles prone to ambushes or bomb attack.
The unit of the New Zealand Special Forces already pulled out of the cable. New Zealand lost ten of its soldiers since sending the first batch of troops to Afghanistan in 2001.