Michael talks to Wolf
about what happened at Sadr City.
Length: 4:21
Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki today insisted that American forces remove
the cordon around Sadr City (where they are searching
for the missing American soldier and a few of the
most violent militia leaders). And the cordon was
removed. Maliki needs the support of Muqtada al-Sadr
to stay in office; America needs al-Maliki to stay in
office to have any chance of an even mildly positive
end to this mess.
(So AT BEST, Iraq will end up with a marionette
leader whose strings are held by one of the most
radical Shia clerics. Our boys are dying for
this??
Brilliant planning...)
Length: 4:28
Michael discusses the
recent report about missing American weapons.
Length: 2:34
Host John Roberts (in
Baghdad) interviews Michael and former
Washington
Post Baghdad Bureau Chief
Rajiv Chandraskaran about the current pressures on
Nouri al-Maliki's government following a week of very
public policy disputes between DC and Baghdad.
Length: 6:43
Michael talks to Betty
Nguyen and T.J. Holmes about the state of things in
Iraq.
Length: 4:36 / 4:27 / 1:32
How fragile is the Iraqi
government? It's not hard to figure that anything
propped up by us and by the very militias we are
trying to eliminate can't be all that stable. Michael
discusses it with Wolf.
Length: 2:55
Michael updates the
situation in the capital and beyond.
Length: 2:45
Michael discusses the
end-of-Ramadan decrease in violence within Baghdad.
Length: 1:56 / 2:45 / 2:39
Michael updates Wolf on
the implications of the latest 'adjustments.'
Length: 3:59
Michael breaks down who
the players are in the insurgency. Considering many
people in our government can't tell a Sunni from a
Shia, this ought to be required viewing...
Length: 4:17
Wolf asks Michael to
comment on President Bush's assertion that we are
winning the war in Iraq.
Length: 3:32
John Roberts is reporting
from Baghdad for the next couple of weeks; tonight he
and Michael talk to Larry. Updates on the search for
the missing American soldier and today's press
conference.
Length: 6:53
Michael talks to Wolf
about the possibilities of changing course in Iraq.
Length: 4:09
Three reports regarding
the search for a missing US soldier, reported
kidnapped while visiting famiily in Iraq, and a
pre-recorded piece about today's press conference
complete with more reality checks on the "new"
benchmarks announced there.
Length: 2:07 / 2:26 / 3:02
Hala Gorani asks Michael
to assess statements made today during the press
conference.
Length: 5:23
Mick gets to relax in the
Green Zone for a couple hours while covering the
Casey/Khalilzad press conference, and does a stand-up
from there to assess what was discussed. (Kind of
looks like a college campus there, doesn't it?)
Length: 3:35
Michael talks to John
King about the realities on the ground in Iraq.
Length: 3:33
Michael does a summation
of today's violence in Iraq.
Length: 1:22
Michael speaks with Wolf
about the current conditions in Iraq.
Length: 3:25
Anderson talks to Michael
(and Peter Bergen) about the current situation in
Iraq. Also, Anderson addresses the controversy caused
by last night's airing of the sniper video.
Length: 1:36 / 0:48 / 1:57
Michael and General David
Grange talk about the reality on the ground in
Baghdad.
Length: 2:30 / 1:45
Al Qaeda today announced
that Iraq is now "The Islamic State of Iraq." I guess
among the lessons they learned from Vietnam is the
"Declare victory" part...
Length: 2:25
Michael talks about the
current situation in Baghdad and Muqtada al-Sadr's
ability to get American forces to release his
associate, suspected of insurgent activities.
Length: 4:33
The sniper video, more on
the insurgent video, and comments on both of them.
Length: 8:10 / 5:25 / 5:02
Paula asks Michael about
the ongoing violence and the number of displaced
Iraqi civilians.
Length: 2:52
Wolf asks Michael about
whether the insurgency is ramping up the violence to
coincide with the midterm elections and the
comparisons to Vietnam. (Anyone else thinking about
Haig's "cannon fodder" comment?)
Length: 3:37
A brief piece on the
deaths in Iraq over the past few days.
Length: 1:23
Wolf shows a clip from
Tony Snow's press conference where he discussed the
videotape offer from the Sunni insurgent group to
have direct talks with the US.
This interview also aired during the third hour of
TSR.
Length: 3:16
Michael talks to Wolf
about the tape and gives a little more detail about
who this group is and what they want.
Length: 5:29
A pre-recorded piece
about the video.
Note: This piece also ran on Your World Today at 9
a.m. PT.
Length: 2:38
More about the video from
Islamic Army of Iraq, the coalition (as it were) or
many of the Sunni insurgent groups. In the first
clip, Michael talks to Soledad about the tape and its
implications; the second clip is a brief "Around the
World" promo; the third is a recorded piece on the
video.
Note: the piece from the third clip also aired on
NewsRoom as noon PT and Lou Dobbs Tonight at 3 pm PT.
Length: 3:26 / 0:36 / 2:51
Michael's back in
Baghdad, and has an exclusive video-response
interview with the leader of one of the largest
insurgent groups. (CNN sent a list of questions, they
received a video back with the replies.)
Of course, the offer to meet with American officials
to discuss a ceasefire will not be accepted; there is
simply no way that US officials will acquiesce to the
conditions mentioned. (A "formal recognition" of the
insurgency? To give them diplomatic equality with the
elected government, no matter how ineffectual that
government may be, would be to undo the whole point
of our going in there.) It would be nice to think
that this is the first step in something that might
lead to talks, but I'm far too cynical to think that
will happen.
Length: 3:40
A prepared piece,
obviously recorded at the same time as last night's
piece for AC360. (He looks, and sounds, exhausted.
Does anyone really ever get used to the kinds of
conditions the troops live in when they are deployed?
I can't imagine how they even function, let alone
excel.)
Length: 2:56
Michael finally has video
contact, and speaks with Anderson about General
Dannatt's comments and the effect that British forces
are having in Iraq.
Length: 4:45
Michael is on the phone
with Wolf discussing the British mission in Basra and
the feelings of troops and commanders within the US
and UK forces.
Length: 5:03
Michael is embedded with
British forces in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
He speaks with Tony Harris by telephone on the troops
current situation and the level agreement with
British commander General Sir Richard Dannatt that
the forces should leave Iraq soon because they are
exacerbating the violence.
Length: 3:59
Michael talks to Paula
about SecState Rice's visit to Baghdad and the deadly
October statistics.
Length: 3:08
Wolf asks Michael about
the reasons behind SecState Rice's visit to Baghdad.
Length: 3:21
Michael makes three
appearances on American Morning, discussing early
reports that the new al-Qaeda in Iraq leader, Abu
Ayyub al-Masri, was killed by coalition forces.
Length: 2:07 / 2:52 / 2:38
Mick speaks with John
Roberts about the latest from Baghdad: the death
squads, the police units, and the crossover between
them.
Length: 4:27
WOLF: President Bush
and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld want the U.S.
military, the U.S. policy to stay the course, if you
will, to continue doing what it has been doing. Colin
Powell is quoted as saying today, "Staying the course
isn't good enough because a course has to have an
end."
MICHAEL: Colin Powell is right. Staying the course
will only further strengthen America's
enemies.
Any questions?
Length: 4:00
Michael talks to Kyra
Phillips about the brigade of Iraqi police taken off
the streets due to their infiltration by Shiite death
squads.
Length: 3:21
Michael talks to Jim
Clancy about the violence, the death squads, the
Iraqi government's involvement... same old-same old,
only worse every day. They took an entire brigade of
Iraqi police off the streets in order to investigate
their involvement in the kidnappings and tortures.
Not only are the Iraqis not standing up, they are
using us to help them settle scores.
Length: 4:19
Michael talks to Miles
about the latest efforts by the al-Maliki government
to look like they are cracking down on the death
squads.
And an "Around the World" brief.
Length: 3:29 / 0:48
Mick does a report on
American deaths in Iraq... 12 so far, in three days.
Length: 2:19
Iraqi officials set up
their own Ramadan propaganda campaign: they claim
they will have al-Masri by the end of the month. It's
not the first time they've made that kind of
challenge, just the first directed at him.
Length: 2:20