Plane carrying Senator and Rep. fired on above Iraq

[Lanya]

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2007/08/plane_carrying_shelby_and_cram.html

Plane carrying Shelby and Cramer fired on above Iraq
Posted by vdmartin August 30, 2007 5:04 PM

A C-130 aircraft carrying an Alabama senator and congressman was fired on this evening as it was flying from Baghdad to Amman, Jordan.

The airplane was carrying Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and Rep. Bud Cramer, D-Huntsville, and two other senators.

Three rockets were shot at the plane and were "near misses," Shelby said in a telephone interview. He said the pilot took evasive maneuvers to avoid the rockets. The plane landed safely in Amman at about 4 p.m. central.

"I was looking out the window, a little small window, and I saw a shell or something," Shelby said. "And then I see a flare. Our plane started maneuvering and changing directions and shaking all around."

Mary Orndorff
 

[Christians4LessGvt]

allah doesn't want infidels dead?

[Michael Tee]

Maybe Shelby's not really an infidel.  I bet if you tortured him for a few years at Guantanamo, he'd confess to being a closet Muslim.

[BT]

Is it true Shelby is a heterosexual?

[Mr_Perceptive]

Is it true Shelby is a heterosexual?

not in stalls he's not.   

[Michael Tee]

I guess it's theoretically possible that one could be both a heterosexual AND a Republican.   

[Mr_Perceptive]

or theroetically possible to be a sane and intelligent Democrat. Statistically possible, I suppose. Probably rarer than Henny converting to Judaism. Or MT living in the South or JS becoming less Euro-centric or Xavier becoming homeo sapien.