Two RAF Harriers damaged in Afghan rocket strike

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Two RAF Harriers damaged in Afghan rocket strike

By Sayed Salahuddin Sun Oct 16, 2:18 AM ET

KABUL (Reuters) - Two RAF Harrier jets have been damaged in a rocket
attack by Taliban guerrillas on an airfield in southern Afghanistan,
a spokesman for U.S.-led foreign forces said on Sunday.

There was no casualties in Friday's rocket attack on Kandahar airport,
where the two British aircraft, part of a fleet of planes led by the
U.S military, were hit, he said.

"The planes were in the parking area and were sightly damaged, but they
may be flyable soon," Colonel Jim Yonts, a spokesman for the U.S.
military, told Reuters.

Yonts confirmed that the strike was the first to have caused damage to
planes inside Kandahar airport since U.S.-led troops overthrew the
Taliban government in 2001 after it refused to hand over Osama bin
Laden, architect of the September 11 attacks on U.S. cities.

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