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 A game of doorbell ditch turns fatal for 11-year-old. Is India, under hefty tariffs, turning away from the US? Guy accused of snatching hat from boy at US Open IDed as rich CEO. At Colorado airport: collision, flames, death. Report an error