Insurgents fire rockets at Afghan loya jirga

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Insurgents fire rockets at Afghan loya jirga

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Insurgents fired two rockets Thursday toward a site of loya jirga.

17 November,2011 11:16 pm

More than 2,000 Afghan elders were attending a national assembly to discuss the future of U.S. military presence in Afghanistan. Rockets missed their target, but one man was injured.No one claimed responsibility for firing the rockets.Everybody knows that they are trying to hit the jirga, but instead innocent civilians were the victims, Mohammad Shafi said standing near where one rocket landed with a thud at about 8 a.m. If the jirga werent going on, there would have been no rockets. If the man loses his hand, who will feed his family?Security for the four-day jirga is tight. Much of Kabul went into a lockdown mode ahead of the meeting and some foreigners working in Kabul were not allowed to travel around the city. Roads were closed and intelligence agents swarmed the meeting hall on the outskirts of the capital.