Thursday, December 15, 2005
Anderson again in Bakuba,
Michael in Baghdad. Michael discusses the report that
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been in US custody but
released. Zarqawi’s insurgent groups have been, in
Michael’s terms, “Iraqified” from the lower ranks up,
so that local insurgents are now having far more say in
how the insurgency fights.
Length: 3:49
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Thursday, December 15, 2005
Talk of
the Nation,
December 15,
2005 ·
Reporters
provide updates on Thursday's voting in Iraq. Turnout
was reported to be strong, even in Sunni-dominated
areas, where voting in last January's first nationwide
election was low.
Reports From Iraq --
4:35
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Anderson hosts from Bakuba,
Michael’s in Baghdad. Although there were fewer acts of
violence than was the case for earlier elections in
Iraq, the polls opened while AC was on the air and
explosions occurred immediately.
Michael explains the long-term plans of the insurgents
and what election results would bode well for the US
mission in Iraq. (Hint: we’re in trouble.)
Length: 4:31
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Lara Logan interviews
Michael on the CBS Evening News about the election and
the "bullets and ballots" strategy employed by the
insurgents.
Length: 3:20
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Monday, December 12, 2005
Anderson spends election
week in Iraq. On day one, he interviews Michael in
Baghdad regarding the “bullets and ballots” dual tracks
of the war.
(Anderson also tries to claim Michael from corporate
sister Time Magazine, again introducing him as “CNN’s
Michael Ware.” Michael’s response? “Insha’allah.” I’m
all for it!)
Length: 3:50
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Monday, December 12, 2005
As the insurgency rages on, a TIME investigation
reveals a new U.S. push to exploit splits in its ranks.
Can that help lead to an exit?
By
MICHAEL WARE / BAGHDAD
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Monday, December 05, 2005
Anderson interviews Michael
in Baghdad regarding the makeup of the insurgency.
Michael also responds to Donald Rumsfeld’s diss on the
media.
Length: 6:11
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Monday, December 05, 2005
The fighting men of Blue Platoon have taken a
horrific beating, but no one talks about pulling
out
By
MICHAEL WARE / RAMADI
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Anderson speaks to Michael
in Baghdad via telephone regarding the battle at Tal
Afar. Michael was there, embedded with the US military,
and witnessed the battle from beginning to end, so he
is uniquely qualified to challenge White House reports
that Iraqi forces led the attack.
Length: 3:59
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Michael speaks by phone
from Baghdad.
Randi Rhodes Show -- 16:37
Monday, November 28, 2005
Anderson speaks to Michael
in Baghdad via telephone.
The quote that caused this site to be created:
COOPER: We are starting to
hear from this White House talk that the Iraqis maybe
are doing better than we had previously thought...
WARE: Whoever from the
White House is saying that is one of two things.
Clearly, they have never been in Iraq and clearly, they
have never been in a firefight with an Iraqi unit.
Secondly, they're clearly lying, whether they know it
or not.
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Monday, September 26, 2005
With doubts about Iraq growing at home, U.S. forces
are struggling to put down an elusive and inexhaustible
enemy. Michael Ware reports on the state of the
counterinsurgency from the front lines of the biggest
battle of the year
By
MICHAEL WARE
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Monday, February 28, 2005
Inside the secret dialogue between the U.S. and
insurgents in Iraq -- and what the rebels say they
want
By
MICHAEL WARE
A TIME EXCLUSIVE
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Monday, February 07, 2005
The car bombs that go off in Baghdad are
manufactured in the relative quiet of an arc of Sunni
tribal lands around the capital. That is the true
heartland of the resistance, where it draws on massive
weapons depots secreted in river valleys and deserts.
The nationalist fighters who control the area supply
Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's networks with the ammo they use
for their deadly operations, according to U.S. military
intelligence. Even as more attacks took place last week
in the run-up to the election--including mortar rounds
on the U.S. embassy that killed two Americans--the
Iraqi government announced the capture of several key
al-Zarqawi lieutenants, including an alleged
"bomber-in-chief." U.S.-led forces arrested other
significant insurgent leaders, the result of a
monthlong sweep beyond Iraq's big cities. On a recent
mission, TIME Baghdad bureau chief MICHAEL WARE saw the
strategy at work.
By
MICHAEL WARE
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005
By MICHAEL WARE
When Sabah Aziz trudged past the police officers at the
checkpoint outside Baghdad's al-Hamra hotel just before
7 a.m. on Jan. 19, he brushed off their invitation to
stop for breakfast. Everyone in the neighborhood knew
Aziz. People said he'd gone insane when his only son
was executed for deserting Saddam Hussein's army. He
walked out on his wife and daughter, roaming their
suburb but never returning home. Locals cared for him,
leaving out food and blankets. On this Wednesday
morning, making his way between the blast barriers and
"dragon's teeth" road spikes at the checkpoint, Aziz
told the police officers, "I want to walk." Turning
left on the four-lane road cutting through the
capital's Jadriyah district, he headed east in the
direction of the Australian embassy. In front of him a
garbage truck stopped, and its driver hopped out to
collect the rubbish bags left out on the pavement. This
early, the Jadriyah road was quiet. Shops were still
shuttered; a few pedestrians and the odd car went by.
The Australian soldiers in their nine-story barracks -
set up in the shell of a partly built apartment block
in front of the Australian embassy - peered out as they
do around the clock, scanning for potential threats.
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