Anderson is in Amman,
Jordan... and so is Michael! An unexpected appearance
on a new rooftop (possibly an indication that Mick
will be out of Iraq for a few weeks) as he joins
Anderson in an hour-long discussion of the various
options being kicked around for a way out of the (say
it with me) civil war in Iraq.
Length: 9:30
Mick shows the tail fin
of a mortar round, built this year in Iran and fired
last week from a Shia neighborhood in Baghdad into a
Sunni one.
Length: 4:40
Michael speaks to Paula
about the, you know, not-civil war.
Length: 3:22
Michael talks to Wolf
about the players in the region and who's benefiting
most from the current mess.
Length: 5:06
Michael makes a brief
appearance talking to Don Lemon regarding why the
military still avoids using the term "civil war."
Length: 1:11
Anderson has Reza Aslan
with him in Turkey and Michael on the video link from
Baghdad. They're talking about Iran's involvement in
Iraq and why it's bad news for us.
Length: 4:15
John Roberts talks to Michael as well as Jamie
MacIntire on the whole semantics vs reality thing.
Length: 6:29
Lou asks Michael about
the stability of the Maliki government.
Length: 1:42
Michael keeps trying to
convince CNN that it's a civil war. (So why was NBC
the first network to get it?)
Length: 4:13
Mick is still trying to
convince people it's a civil war. What part of this
slaughter are we not understanding?
Length: 3:58 / 2:25
John Roberts speaks with
Michael (in Baghdad), "Spider" Marks (in DC) and
Rajiv Chandrasekaran (in LA) about the explosive
events of the past few days. The discussion looks to
have been filmed yesterday evening, Baghdad time.
(I just started reading Chandrasekaran's book
yesterday. Another excellent addition to the Iraq
bookshelf.)
Length: 6:39
Mick talks to Kitty
Pilgrim about Muqtada al-Sadr's win-win plan.
Length: 4:31
Michael talks to John
King about the possible goals of al-Sadr's threat and
the spiraling violence.
Length: 4:25
Michael discusses the
events of the last two days.
Length: 3:32 / 2:16 / 2:24
Michael speaks with
Soledad O'Brien about Muqtada al-Sadr's
threat-by-proxy to collapse the Iraqi government if
Prime Minister Maliki meets with President Bush next
week.
Length: 4:24
A final report of the
Thanksgiving Day attacks in Sadr City, as Baghdad
goes under curfew.
Length: 2:28
Michael continues to
report on the attacks in and around Sadr City.
Length: 3:21
Violence explodes in Sadr
City after American forces enter the area in search
of the missing soldier. In the hours that followed
that raid, nearby Sunni neighborhoods apparently took
an opportunity to attack. Carbombs, mortars,
small-arms fire... But there's no civil war here,
folks.
Length: 2:52 / 2:51 / 3:36
Michael does a
heartbreaking report on the civilian casualties of
the civil war -- a family searching for a missing son
amid the thousands of dead, wounded, and arrested in
Baghdad.
Length: 5:03
Mick recaps the UN report
and upcoming summit for Kitty Pilgrim.
Length: 2:12
Michael talks to John
King about the upcoming meeting between Bush and
Maliki.
Length: 2:38
Michael talks with
Stephen Frazier about a new UN report on the number
of civilian Iraqi deaths.
Length: 2:57
John Roberts speaks to
Michael about the Iran/Syria influence in Iraq, and
in the second hour, they are joined by Aneesh Raman
(in Tehran) for more discussion on Iran's role in the
violence.
Length: 2:40 / 4:36
Paula Zahn asks Michael
about the current round of negotiations supposedly
aimed at working towards political solutions.
Length: 2:35
Michael talks to John
King about the assassination in Lebanon and the
repercussions it might have in Iraq.
Length: 3:23
Michael talks to John
Roberts about the current climate in Iraq, as Henry
Kissinger states we cannot win a military-only
victory, and as the politics of the region are
tipping away from us.
Length: 3:35
Michael talks to John
King about Iraqi President Talabani's trip to Iran
and the strengthening of Iranian influence in Iraq.
Length: 3:25
Michael and Anderson
discuss the reported abduction of four American
contractors.
Length: 3:58
Michael updates the
information on the abducted American contractors.
Length: 4:15
Breaking news, first
about a potentially explosive warrant issued by the
Shia government for the arrest of a major Sunni
cleric, and then of the abduction of four American
contractors.
Length: 3:58 / 7:07 / 3:21
Michael responds to a
two-part question from Lou involving the Iraqi forces
in whom we have invested so much.
Length: 2:48
Michael and Wolf discuss
the current events in Baghdad and Iraq.
(Note: Wolf played the
same clip on both shows; I am archiving the second
one only.)
Length:
3:06
According to Iraqi
government officials, most of the abductees have been
released.
Length: 2:51
Michael talks to Wolf
about how the events of the morning reflect on Prime
Minister Maliki's control (or lack thereof) of the
situation in Iraq.
Length: 2:51
Michael's pre-recorded
piece explaining the events of the morning.
Length: 2:24
Michael continues to
update the situation on the mass-abduction.
Length: 3:40 / 2:10 / 2:41
Michael begins a long day
of reporting about the brazen abduction of 100 - 150
men from a government building. The abductors wore
Iraqi army/police uniforms and pulled off a highly
organized raid in broad daylight.
Length: 1:44 / 2:48 / 2:40
Anderson asks Michael
whether more troops would help the situation in Iraq.
Length: 2:32
Michael does a
prerecorded summation of the tape from al Qaeda in
Iraq.
Length: 1:34
Anderson plays some clips
from today's insurgency message and discusses the
actual capability of the groups to carry out their
threats.
Length: 3:57
Wolf talks to Michael
about today's propaganda tape from al-Qaeda in Iraq,
threatening to blow up the White House, etc etc.
Length: 3:13
Hala talks to Mick about
the audiotape released today by the head of al-Qaeda
in Iraq, in which he taunts Bush and Rumsfeld.
Length: 3:02
Anderson asks Peter
Bergen and Michael about insurgent claims that the
election results are a victory for them.
Length: 6:38
Wolf asks Michael about
new figures calculating the number of civilian Iraqi
deaths.
Length: 2:59
In the first clip,
Michael discusses the Rumsfeld resignation with Wolf
Blitzer. In the second clip, two hours later, Michael
discusses the effect of the election results and the
SecDef resignation with Lou Dobbs.
Length: 3:19 / 2:31
Michael describes the
Iraqi perspective on the US election.
Length: 2:13
Michael discusses the
verdict and the reaction of the Iraqi people.
(Note: these clips were actually part of the "America
Votes" series, but aired during the normal TSR
times.)
Length: 2:30 / 3:04
Michael sums up reaction
to the verdict throughout Iraq.
Length: 4:42
The verdicts are
announced in the trial of Saddam Hussein and his
cohorts. Michael discusses the news on CNN
International in several clips over the space of
three hours.
(There were some earlier interviews he did that I was
unable to record; unfortunately, the video service
CNN uses does not record Breaking News.)
Length: 6:52 / 1:29 / 1:36 / 7:15 / 5:21 / 4:08 /
7:11
Michael speaks to Soledad
about the Mahdi Army and the on-going search for the
kidnapped American soldier.
Length: 2:44
Michael speaks with Wolf
Blitzer and Paula Zahn about the Mahdi Army.
Length: 3:40 / 5:38
Michael discusses the
graph run by the NYT today, which shows Iraq moving
closer to chaos.
Length: 4:09