Michael
(in NY) and Gloria Borger (in DC) discuss the latest
information about Afghanistan -- will President Obama
send in more troops or come up with another option?
Length: 6:22
A look at
some behind-the-scenes footage from Afghanistan. It
mostly focuses on "Sir" Tommy Evans
and
Sarmad Qasiri, but there is a bit of footage of
Michael that we haven't seen before.
Length: 2:37
Today
on NewsRoom
they
finally played the package that was scheduled to air
on the fourth night of the Afghanistan coverage --
another look at Kandahar and the option of bringing
the local warlords onto US payroll (similar to what
was done in Iraq) as a way of blocking support for
the Taliban and (more importantly to US interests) al
Qaeda.
Length: 3:30
Michael is
back in New York, and in light of the leak of General
McChrystal's report to the president, takes part in a
panel discussion about the future of Afghanistan,
along with Peter Bergen and Rory Stewart.
Length: 8:53
In an
interview recorded Thursday, Fareed Zakaria asks
Michael to evaluate the American mission in
Afghanistan, compare it to Iraq, and discuss the
close call with the IED last week.
Length: 11:31
Two short
sound bites that were played on Saturday
Morning -- when
the first one was on, I thought it might be a preview
of the GPS
interview,
but at the end of the second one, he says "Anderson,"
so it looks like these were outtakes from the
interview used for the "Inside the Battle Zone"
special.
Length: 0:31 / 1:09
The
AC360
special
"Inside the Battle Zone" was mostly the reports shown
during the week, but there was some new material,
including this conversation amongst Anderson Cooper,
Peter Bergen, and Michael.
Length: 3:36
Another
discussion about the state of the war in Afghanistan,
this time with John King asking Michael about issues
on the ground and David Gergen about political
realities. (At one point Michael asks someone on his
end whether the other panelist is Peter Bergen or
David Gergen. Ahh, live television...)
Length: 5:01
Michael is
part of a panel discussion about Osama bin Laden and
9/11, but I've clipped just his section. (I pulled
the preview clip as well, since during the actual
segment they showed B-roll of OBL rather than the
video of Michael.)
Length: 2:30
Michael
talks to Kyra Phillips about Osama bin Laden's
relevancy to the current war in Afghanistan.
Length: 3:34
Isha Sesay
hosts a discussion about 9/11 amongst Michael (in
Kabul), Cal Perry (in Baghdad), and Reza Sayah (in
Islamabad).
Length: 9:25
The fourth
day of the special reporting from Afghanistan gives
us a discussion amongst Anderson Cooper, Peter
Bergen, and Michael. It is already 9/11 in
Afghanistan, and the discussion centers on what has
happened to the search for Osama bin Laden and
whether al Qaeda is still active in that country.
Length: 4:41
Becky
Anderson covers the story of the controversy over the
Farrell rescue. Michael talks about what happened and
the confusion and anger that has erupted since then.
I did clip out a lengthy interview with Dr. Abdullah
Abdullah, and afterwards Michael points out that this
is just one of many similar incidents.
(Be sure to watch to the end to see Michael do a
facepalm after he calls Becky by the wrong name.)
Length: 6:28
Michael
Holmes talks to Michael about the death of Sultan
Munadi during the rescue of Stephen Farrell. This may
shake out in ways that increase the dangers for war
correspondents...
Length: 3:40
Fionnuala
Sweeney reports about the backlash against the raid
that rescued NYT
reporter
Stephen Farrell but left his Afghan translator dead.
Shockingly, his body was left behind, something that
would not have happened had he been a Western
journalist. Michael discusses the local response from
the Afghan media and says that the British forces
(who lost one of their own in the raid) are also
discussing whether a rescue should have been mounted
for a journalist.
Length: 5:02
The third AC360
report is
a look at the changes in Kandahar and the results of
a recent truck bombing (the location of
yesterday's
piece for
BackStory.)
Michael also tracks down some more old friends and
gets their views on the current situation.
(Read about Ahmed Wali Karzai in this
article written
for Time
in
February 2002 and Astad Abdul Halim in
this
article for
Time
from
March 2002.)
Length: 5:55
Michael does a "debrief" with Michael Holmes,
discussing what's been going on since he arrived in
Afghanistan, including the close call with the IED
last week.
Length: 8:51
A preview of the piece to air on AC360
tonight,
as Michael travels through Kandahar to see how the
city has changed since he left it to go to Iraq.
Length: 5:14
Becky Anderson talks to Michael about the release of
NYT correspondent Stephen Farrell and he then shows
the police patrol piece. She then plays a piece from
Reza Sayah about a supposed victory over the Taliban
in Pakistan, and then comes back to ask Michael about
the possibility of bringing the Taliban into the
Afghan government.
Length: 12:18
Isha Sesay talks to Michael about the situation in
Afghanistan and last week's close call in Kandahar.
(And whoever chose the B-roll to play while he's
talking clearly did not use stuff his team had shot
-- as he's describing going out without the safety of
being embedded with the military, we're watching
military patrols...)
Length: 6:25
The second AC360
report
also focuses on Michael's time in Kandahar last week.
As he mentioned in
this afternoon's discussion on
The
Situation Room, one
night when he had gone out on patrol with a local
police force working to curb Taliban activity in the
area, the truck he and his cameraman were riding in
hit an IED.
(Michael's friend, Mullah Gul Akund, was mentioned
in this
article he did
for Time
in
January 2002.)
Length: 7:03
Campbell
Brown talks to Michael (in Kabul) and Anderson Cooper
(at Forward Base Jaker in Helmand Province) about the
status of the war on the ground and the accusations
of fraud in the recent elections.
Length: 5:37
Tommy
Evans gives us a look behind the scenes as Michael
and the crew films in Kandahar.
Length: 3:07
Wolf
Blitzer asks Michael about the current status of the
war in Afghanistan, and also asks him about a close
call he had last week when the truck he and his
cameraman were riding in struck an IED. (The full
story and video of that night will be on
AC360
tonight.)
Length: 5:40
Michael
talks to Kyra Phillips about the lack of progress in
Afghanistan -- what is there to show for eight years
of combat there? In the second hour of her program,
another showing of the Highway #1 piece, but with a
different beginning.
Length: 3:04 / 3:22
Michael
talks to Fionnuala Sweeney about the disputed
election results and also shows the Highway #1 piece.
Length: 5:49
The first
of the AC360
reports:
the road from Kabul to Kandahar, which US forces had
rebuilt just a few years ago, is now under the
control of the Taliban. Michael talks with a truck
driver who has to drive that route every week as he
reports from a checkpoint at the Kabul end and a
truck depot at the Kandahar end. There is also a
recorded wrap-up.
(Michael's blog entry on this story is
here.)
Length: 3:55
Michael is
in Kabul and talks to Suzanne Malveaux about the
disputed election results (still disputed; it is
Afghanistan, after all...) and gives a bit of a
preview on his report tonight about the
Kabul-Kandahar road that had been one of the American
success stories but now has fallen to the Taliban.
Length: 3:34
Anderson
Cooper holds a "Strategy Session" with David Gergen
as well as Michael, who is in an unspecified location
in southern Afghanistan. It was not quite 7am there,
and it looks like Michael is heading out for a long
day of work. [We now
know he was in Kandahar, and later this day the truck
he was riding in would hit an
IED.]
Length: 5:08