World | Afghanistan Afghan Rocket Misses French General, Kills 3 Kids Insurgents target marketplace meeting By Kevin Spak Posted Nov 16, 2009 8:40 AM CST Copied 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. Read These Next Hulk Hogan has died. RIP, Chuck Mangione. The Wall Street Journal is naming more names tied to Epstein. The first video of an earthquake fault slip led to a major discovery. Report an error