Look at that smile!!

This one is dated, January 26, 2000 -- how exhausted do you have to be to sleep in a Blackhawk (NOT the quietest place) a few inches from an open doorway over a long drop?

UPDATE: This from the AC360 blog's morning report:

Michael Ware has obtained what is believed by the US military to be one of the largest collections of internal al Qaeda documents to fall into civilian hands. Gripping videos and hundreds of AQ documents give fascinating insight into their inner working, complex bureaucracy and shocking predictions of their own undoing in Iraq. Michael Ware deciphers what it all means for the Future of Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Michael Ware Joins CNN as Baghdad-based Correspondent (CNN News Release)

Tuesday, May 30, 2006
CNN PRESS RELEASE

Michael Ware, the TIME magazine Baghdad bureau chief who gained renown for in-depth coverage of the insurgency in Iraq, will join CNN as a correspondent based in Baghdad, it was announced today by Tony Maddox, senior vice president of international newsgathering operations.

~~ Cynthia

Length: 1:25:51
LARGE (400.1 MB) ----- SMALL (86.5 MB)


(I was not using a flash, so the color is way off)

Two ThinkProgress interviews recorded later that afternoon:

Length: 2:47 (11.0 MB) ----- 2:24 (9.7 MB)

April 3, Middle-East Institute: "The Situation on the Ground in Iraq" (audio only)

Length: 1:14:34
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A couple brief videos that I shot, also under low-light conditions:
Length: 0:25 (7.8 MB)
Length: 0:13 (2.6 MB)
Length: 0:44 (14.0 MB)

(More photos that I took; I slowed the shutter speed, which gave better color but did not freeze motion)

TUESDAY APR 08, 2008
Ware On Capitol Hill

A tipster tells us that CNN's Michael Ware was in today's Senate hearing with Gen. David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker. Ware had one of his feet up on a chair and his head resting in his hand, eyes closed. Was maybe even napping.

Said our tipster: "He's a badass for living in Iraq for five years, so he's allowed to sleep anywhere in my book."

The full ad can be seen here.

Also, during 360 tonight, they were promo'ing the "Shock and Awe" special for Thursday night rather than tomorrow.

CNN Employs Global Resources for Fifth Anniversary Coverage of War in Iraq

AC360’s ‘Shock and Awe’ Special on March 19 Provides In-depth Retrospective, Present-Day Impact of War

CNN Worldwide marks the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq with a global cross-platform initiative focusing on the war’s impact upon politics, the military, the economy and humanitarian situation in both Iraq and the United States. For its coverage, CNN draws upon its unrivalled resources and experience garnered from more than 18 years of coverage in region as one of the only international broadcasters to have had a permanent bureau in Iraq since 1990.  

CNN’s coverage spans across its programming with special reports airing on Anderson Cooper 360º, the Situation Room and American Morning and on CNN International and CNN.com.   

“Shock and Awe: Five Years Later,” an Anderson Cooper 360º special, will be broadcast around the world to more than 310 million households on both CNN/U.S. and CNN International on Wednesday, March 19, at 11 p.m. (ET) This in-depth hour offers retrospective dispatches from those who have covered the war for the past five years, including such CNN journalists as chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, senior political correspondent Candy Crowley, senior international correspondent Nic Robertson, national correspondent Gary Tuchman and Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware and contributors including Ret. Gen. David Grange.

List of winners in 74th annual National Headliner Awards
sponsored by The Press Club of Atlantic City
Published on Friday Mar 07, 2008

Continuing Coverage of a Major News Event
 First Place:       CNN
“Anderson Cooper 360: Michael Ware 2007 Coverage of Iraq”

Full list of winners

• galah : a type of bird, slang for idiot, as in “you guys are acting like a mob of galahs”
• drongo: also a bird, also slang for idiot, as in “don’t be such a bloody drongo” 

Délie has sent me the promo currently airing for the hour-long special this weekend, which Michael is hosting, about the Pakistan election. She also received a copy of the press release:

Pakistan's Vital Vote will offer viewers insight into Pakistan's troubled political waters as voters prepare to elect a new parliament and decide who will choose the country's next prime minister.  Hosted by veteran CNN correspondent Michael Ware, this special report will offer some analysis of what these elections might bring to a country shattered by months of political turmoil, weeks under emergency rule, and the tragic assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. It will also examine international concern over this crucial vote in a country that is uniquely pivotal in the war on terror.  1 hour. [NOTE: According to the schedule, it is only a 1/2 hour program]

And here is the banner still for it:

Michael will be in Pakistan this week, covering the election there. CNN/I has begun airing promos for an hour-long special to air this weekend, titled "Pakistan's Vital Vote."

He will be returning to Baghdad after this special coverage.

And I have done some re-shuffling of the site in order to put in a new area for the Pakistan section. Changes are:

Anderson Cooper mentioned on his blog tonight that Michael will be on AC360 next week.

• AC360 01/26/06

• AC360 01/31/06

• AC360 02/24/06

• TSR 03/20/06

• AC360 03/21/06

• AC360 03/22/06

• Real Time 03/24/06

• AC360 04/03/06

• TSR 04/04/06

• AC360 11/28/05

• AC360 11/30/05

• AC360 12/05/05

• AC360 12/12/05

• AC360 12/14/05

• AC360 12/15/05

I'll convert and upload the nine clips from early 2006 as soon as possible...