Posted on 01/11/2008 12:50:42 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB
Best-selling mystery author John Sandford has a new assignment: reporting from Iraq.
Sandford -- real name John Camp -- leaves Saturday for two weeks as an embedded reporter with the Minnesota National Guard's 2-147 Assault Helicopter Battalion in Iraq. He'll spend time at the air base in Balad, 25 miles north of Baghdad.
Sandford, 63, who won a Pulitzer Prize with the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1986 for a series about a southwestern Minnesota farm family, told the newspaper he's "more excited than scared." He and photographer Eric Bowen, who was in Iraq last February, plan to file daily dispatches at MinnPost.com, a new online news site that is sponsoring their trip.
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He’s there now. Just got done listening to him do a half hour live with Soucheray on AM1500.
same here. he’s a lefty, but has declined to express it in that forum.
much appreciated.
I like his “Prey” books, but for some reason, I have the impression that Sandford is a lefty. May have read comments somewhere by him or about him to that effect. Anyone know for sure about his political leanings?
In previous interviews on radio, he made it pretty clear he was a John F’n Kerry backer.
I still like his books.
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