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From The Herald's Research Editor

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

The war and other wars

Lots of talk around the 'net about The Coming Wars, Seymour Hersh's latest investigative article in The New Yorker, which claims that heavy -duty U.S. intelligence in Iran seems to indicate there are plans to attack there at some point.

""The Bush Administration is looking at this as a huge war zone," the former high-level intelligence official told me. "Next, we're going to have the Iranian campaign. We've declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah -we've got four years, and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism.""

The story has raised enough alarm that The Defense Department has published a list of errors in the story.

Meanwhile, in Iraq, soldiers are adopting stray animals to keep them company. Military Mascots is an organisation dedicated to help these soldiers get their animals back to the States. However, there seems to be a rash of stories about recent military decisions to get rid of mascot animals. A Live Journal blog of a soldier's family tells of their devastation at the forced euthanization of their dog, Connor:

"Connor's death was the result of a USMC general order to put down all dogs. We had raised over $1200, and had all arrangements made. When we went to pick her up at the remote location where they had been watching her in order to take her to the plane, she was missing. She had been found and taken less than twelve hours prior."

And, back to another war, a last word on the CBS report on President Bush's military service: the Associated Press's investigation led to the details of Bush's missing months in the service, based on government and military documents and listed in a Salon article, quoted here by The Daily Kos.

posted by liz at 11:47 AM

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Elisabeth Donovan

Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to the field.

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