Michael talks to John
King about an upcoming meeting (or pre-meeting) where
the US will sit down with representatives of Iraq,
Iran, and Syria.
Length: 4:24
A brief
update on the Ramadi bombing, which now appears to
have been a very different situation from that
described by the Iraqi Minister of Interior.
Length: 1:20
Michael talks to Hala
Gorlani about a report that 18 boys were killed by a
suicide bomber in Ramadi while playing soccer.
Length: 2:51
Miles O'Brien talks to
Michael about the latest show & tell of seized
munitions, and whether the message of Iran's
involvement is a casualty of the pre-Iraq-invasion
intelligence manipulations.
Length: 3:28
Michael recaps the health
scare of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and the
assassination attempt against VP Adel Abdul Mahdi.
Length: 2:09
Wolf plays a clip from
his interview yesterday with the Iraqi NSA. Michael
points put that the guy did a "I don't beat my wife
anymore" while explaining that Iran has stopped
supplying the EFPs.
Length: 3:52
Michael speaks to Jim
Clancy about the hospitalization of President
Talabani, and the bombing that targeted the Shiite
VP.
Length: 4:18
Anderson talks to Michael
about the chlorine gas and asks why there seems to be
a sudden "surge" of its use by the insurgents.
Length: 3:18
A brief pre-recorded clip
regarding the chlorine gas.
Length: 2:19
Michael speaks to Wolf
about the use of chlorine gas and points out that it
is a far greater weapon of terror than it is an
actual killing agent.
Length: 4:18
On the one-year
anniversary of the bombing of the Golden Dome mosque
in Samarra, we get two reports from Michael during
AC360.
In the first hour, Michael talks to former-FNC'er
Kiran Chetry about the addition of tanks of chlorine
to the suicide car/truck bombs in order to release
poisonous gas.
In the second hour, John King intros possibly the
most honest look we've seen at the daily reality of
life in Baghdad -- the executions, the horrors of
bound and tortured bodies discovered every morning,
the unbelievable grief and hate and fear. The piece
comes with a graphic-content warning.
(In the prepared piece as well as John King's
interview with him afterwards, Michael discusses the
plan Zarqawi laid out in the infamous letter to Osama
bin Laden in 2003. If you care to read that letter,
it can be found here.)
Length: 4:06 / 7:00
John King talks to
Michael about the events in Baghdad (you know, that
"dazzling success")
Length: 5:16 / 4:18
Wolf asks Michael's
opinion of PM Maliki's statement that the surge has
been a "dazzling success."
Length: 3:20
On the Sunday edition
of Lou Dobbs This
Week, Lou interviews Michael
and Gen. David Grange on the current status of the
surge.
Length: 7:50
John Roberts' panel
discussion for the This Week in Iraq segment includes
Michael, Jamie McIntyre, and Time
magazine's
Romesh Ratnesar.
Length: 6:52
Michael does a prepared
piece on what exactly the Quds Force is -- imagine
taking our most elite, highly-trained special ops
teams and adding religious zealotry. Scary stuff.
Length: 5:45
Two clips: the first is
breaking news coverage of an announcement by the
Iraqi government that they have wounded the leader of
al-Qaeda in Iraq during a gun battle; the second is
in regards to who has more sway in Iraq right now.
(Love the "gnarly," dude!)
Length: 2:42 / 3:10
Miles O'Brien is still
trying to make sense of the Muqtada al-Sadr Iraq/Iran
whereabouts story.
Length: 3:03
John Roberts speaks with
Michael, Jamie McIntyre, and Ed Henry as they try to
put together a timeline as to what happened with the
Baghdad briefing that DC is now trying to dial back.
Length: 10:24
Michael talks to Wolf
about the outside influences at play in Iraq.
Length: 5:00
Michael joins the
commentary team for the President's press conference.
Three clips, one before and one after the address,
then a third clip that is a prerecorded piece
regarding the whereabouts of Muqtada al-Sadr.
Length: 4:08 / 3:38 / 1:48
John Roberts interviews
Michael three times over the course of the show. The
first one focuses on whether Muqtada al-Sadr is
really in Iran and if so, why. The second one is
whether -- if he is gone -- it will damage the Mahdi
Army at all. The third also brings in David Gergen to
discuss why this is all such a big story from the US
all of a sudden.
Length: 4:20 / 4:31 / 5:49
Michael gets dragged out
of bed at 3 a.m. to respond to a breaking news story
that Muqtada al-Sadr is currently in Iran. The US
government paints it as his having fled there in fear
for his safety; however, there is no proof that he is
there and certainly none that we have him on the run.
Length: 6:55
John Roberts talks to
both Michael and Christiane Amanpour (in London)
about the Iraq/Iran connections.
Length: 4:34
Mostly the prepared piece
on the briefing, with a short tag at the end.
Length: 3:31
Michael talks to Wolf
about the briefing and the reasons behind it, and
weighs in with his opinion as to the likelihood of
Bush invading Iran. (I've been wondering where the
heck we'd get the troops, too. Unless Darth Cheney
really does have that clone army...) And Jack
Cafferty has another rave review.
Length: 3:29
Michael discusses the
briefing with Kyra Phillips.
Length: 3:19
Michael recaps the
briefing again and Hala Gorani asks about the timing
of the event.
Length: 2:42
Three clips summarizing
yesterday's briefing regarding the possible Iranian
suppling of weapons and training to Iraqi Shiite
groups.
Length: 3:14 / 3:22 / 3:16
A recorded recap of
Michael's report about the military briefing
regarding Iran's involvement in Iraq.
Length: 3:10
Michael talks to Wolf
about this morning's briefing regarding Iran
supplying munitions and training to Iraqi militias.
Length: 3:37 / 3:53
Mick is just back from a
Green Zone briefing by US military/intelligence reps
in which proof of Iran's involvement within Iraq was
laid out. Munitions that have been identified as
having been manufactured within Iran (and Mick showed
us those last year) and tactics that have been used
by the Iranian Quds Force were the two main pieces of
proof.
(I don't think anyone is surprised by these
allegations, but let's face it... it will be a long,
long time before anyone accepts US "proof" about
anything again. And from this administration? They
wouldn't be believed if they claimed the sky was
blue.)
Length: 3:44
Anderson (in New Orleans)
speaks to Michael about today's arrest and what
Muqtada al-Sadr may do about it.
Length: 2:59
Michael talks with Wolf
about today's arrest by American forces of the Deputy
Health Minister, who has close ties to Muqtada
al-Sadr's Mahdi militia.
Length: 3:52
Anderson speaks with both
Michael and Retired General David Grange about the
possibility of all the recently downed choppers being
the result of a new tactic being used against
American forces.
Length: 6:10
Michael discusses the
recent downing of several US helicopters and whether
this is a new plan by the insurgents. (Although CNN
reported just days after the surge was announced that
the insurgents said they were going to start
targeting aircraft.)
Length: 4:43
Michael recaps the
parliament story for Lou, and adds some new info
regarding a missing Iranian diplomat.
Length: 2:49
Wolf asks Michael about
the big story of the day. The second clip aired in
the third hour of TSR; although the audio is the
same, there are some different visuals.
Length: 3:28 / 3:28
Michael recaps the story
he broke about the convicted terrorist elected to the
Iraqi parliament.
Length: 2:57 / 1:26
Michael breaks the story
of an Iraqi parliamentarian who is a convicted
terrorist, mastermind of the bombing of the US
embassy on Kuwait in 1983.
(Both clips have the
same audio, but some video changes are made for the
second one.)
Length: 5:05 / 5:16
More on the start of the
surge, as well as the truck bomb at the market.
Length: 2:58
In the aftermath of a
truck bomb that killed more than 125 Iraqis and
injured more than 300, Michael speaks with Wolf about
Shia claims that the surge of American troops has
made such attacks possible.
Length: 2:38
Michael reports on how
expectations of the "surge" are playing in the
streets of Baghdad.
Length: 2:18
Michael does a phone
interview to give comments about the NIE that was
released today. (If you haven't read it, you can
download it at dni.gov. It is 9 pages long,
but only the last 3 1/2 pages are the actual
report.)
Length: 2:58
Anderson speaks with
Michael (in Baghdad) and Christiane Amanpour (in
Tehran) about the Iranian presence in Iraq.
The second hour was a repeat of Iraq: The Hidden
Wars, but other than some
new intros from Anderson, it was the same as the
Tuesday broadcast.
Length: 6:01
Michael talks to Wolf
about the Najaf battle. (Just what this bloody
wars-within-a-war mess needs: David Koresh
wannabes...)
Length: 3:38
Michael reports about
growing questions concerning last weekend's battle in
Najaf. Messianic cult? Sectarian slaughter? The
reports have sounded questionable right from the
start, but it seems like it will be awhile before
this gets sorted out.
Length: 3:57