What Senators were with Shelby in the plane that was shot at in Iraq today? Anyone know?

[saracat]

[stillcool]

1. here you go...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2972753

[saracat]

2. Thanks but it still doesn't say who the 2 other Senators are.Bud cranmer is a congressperson from Al

Who were the 2 other Seantors and why don't they count.Is it that they were Democrats? Hmmm?

[stillcool]

3. weird...

I can't find the story anywhere else. Looks like it came from a local Fox station.
http://www.myfoxal.com/myfox/

[Jack Bone]

4. just checked my 2 Sen's sites..

Sen. Dick Lugar's in Russia observing disarmaments w/ Fmr. Sen. Nunn...8/30/07

Sen. Evan Bayh...no news listed since..8/22/07

[stillcool]

5. Now I'm curious...

kicking for answers...:kick:

[stillcool]

6. spoke to soon...

found something...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_go_co/lawmakers_iraq_2
By BEN EVANS, Associated Press Writer 7 minutes ago

A military cargo plane carrying three senators and a House member was forced to take evasive maneuvers and dispatch flares to avoid ground fire after taking off from Baghdad on Thursday night.

The lawmakers said their plane, a C-130, was under fire from three rocket-propelled grenades over the course of several minutes as they left for Amman, Jordan.

"It was a scary moment," said Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla.,r pilots were terrific. ... They banked in one direction and then banked the other direction, and they set off the flares."

Sens. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and James Inhofe, R-Okla., as well as Rep. Bud Cramer, D-Ala., were also on the plane.

[beachmom]

7. Shelby, Martinez, and Inhofe

This is awful.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/30/AR2007083001697.html

"It was a scary moment," said Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., who said he had just taken off his body armor when he saw a bright flash outside the window. "Our pilots were terrific. ... They banked in one direction and then banked the other direction, and they set off the flares."

...

Crew members apparently communicated to the pilots as they saw the initial RPG fired from the ground, Cramer said. After the first burst, the pilots maneuvered aggressively and set off flares used for drawing incoming fire away from aircraft.

Once the flares lit up the sky, lawmakers said, two more RPGs were fired as the pilots continued maneuvering.

Martinez said he quickly put back on his body armor.

"We were jostled around pretty good," said Cramer, who estimated the plane had ascended to about 6,000 feet. "There were a few minutes there where I wondered: 'Have we been hit? Are we OK?'"


I'm relieved they're okay.

[Beaverhausen]

8. Is it too cynical to say, if they had been hit or god forbid killed...

...this war would probably never end and the middle east would explode?

I'm glad they are OK and really glad it wasn't worse.