Plane with U.S. lawmakers fired on while leaving Iraq

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CNN) -- A U.S. military plane carrying three U.S. senators and one member of the House of Representatives came under fire Thursday night as it left Baghdad, Iraq, but it was not hit and flew safely to Amman, Jordan.

A Pentagon source said the small-arms fire appeared to be random and came from too far away to hit the C-130 transport.

On the flight were Sens. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama; Mel Martinez, R-Florida; James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma; and Rep. Bud Cramer, D-Alabama.

Shelby described the situation as "kind of dicey."

"We were shot at by three rockets," Shelby said in a statement Friday. "It was dark as the dickens, and I was looking out the small window on the plane and I saw a shell. We saw them, they were popping, and we saw the flares."

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The surge is working!

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Clearly. Prior to the surge, the insurgents would have been much closer to hit the plane.