Voinovich near site of fatal attack

It may have been a close call for Sen. George Voinovich in Iraq this week.

The Ohio Republican and three other U.S. senators visited Combat Outpost X-ray, near Camp Taji, north of Baghdad on Tuesday. One day later, two suicide truck bombs were set off at another outpost in the area north of Baghdad, killing four Iraqi soldiers, and wounding 11 U.S. soldiers and four Iraqi soldiers.

A U.S. military spokesman declined to say how close the outpost that was attacked is to Outpost X-Ray, which the senators visited. A spokesman in Voinovich's office confirmed that the attack was on a different outpost.

Tennessee Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker, both Republicans, and David Vitter, R-La., also were on the trip.