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ABC Radio (AUS) "Cultures of Journalism" -- 8:45
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TIME: Into the Hot Zone
By MICHAEL WARE
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NBC: Battle for Fallujah
Tom Brokaw introduces a clip that uses footage Michael
shot during the battle, along with some recorded
commentary about the fighting. (Clip size is same as
original.)
Length: 2:11
TIME: Appointment in Samarra
By MICHAEL WARE
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TIME: The Enemy With Many Faces
The grenade was visible when the insurgent stepped in front of our car. His sinewy arm was cocked, ready to throw. Fifteen more men poured out from the corner of a nearby tenement, swirling about the car like angry floodwaters. They brandished grenades and AK-47s, pistol grips nudging out from under the folds of their shirts. Spotting me in the backseat, they went into a frenzy, yanking on the handles of the doors, thumping the window with the grenades. Across Iraq, the insurgents have gone on a kidnapping spree, seizing Italian aid workers, French journalists and American construction workers. As they ordered us out of the car, I wondered whether we were about to become their latest catch.
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NPR: Iraq Update: Hostage Crisis Confusion
Dateline (AUS): "In all regards, we regard ourselves on our own."
Michael appears on an
Australian show to discuss reports that two Aussies had
been abducted in Iraq.
(This
clip was posted online in .RM format, which I converted.
The size of the window is the same as the
original.)
Length:
7:50
TIME: High Noon on Haifa Street
The booby-trapped artillery shell detonated shortly before midnight. In the roar and smoke, bodies ripped apart. Suddenly the nine-man foot patrol from Task Force 1/9, composed of infantrymen and cavalry troopers, was down to five, alone, in a darkened Baghdad alley and cut off from help. One soldier was dead. Three others lay bleeding but still alive as fire from AK-47s rained down on the scrambling troopers. Company commander Captain Thomas Foley hollered orders above the din, desperately trying to stave off the attack while getting some kind of aid to his wounded men. One had lost a leg in the massive blast; two others were critically wounded. Grenades were lobbed down from houses and apartments above. Foley banded the survivors together to cover their fallen comrades. A minute elapsed, then another and another. The onslaught didn't cease, but they held on. Forty more minutes would pass before rescuers could fight their way to them. It felt like a lifetime.
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TIME: Uniting to Resist?
Intense fighting broke out last week between U.S. troops, backed by Iraqi forces, and fighters loyal to the radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. But while al-Sadr's Mahdi militia represents a serious threat to Iraq's stability, an equally vexing challenge to Iraqi order is taking shape in the Sunni Muslim--dominated area northwest of Baghdad, where Sunni terrorists, Baathists and nationalists are thriving.
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NPR: Iraq Propaganda
NPR's Philip Reeves reports.
CNN: When the reporter becomes the story
From a CNN report: Michael
becomes the story when the insurgent groups with which he
had made contact start sending him videos of their
attacks.
The original intro:
Among the believers: an Australian journalist penetrates
the Iraqi jihad and finds himself the insurgents latest
pipeline to the international press.
It takes a special kind of courage for foreigners to live
in Iraq right now. It takes a stunning kind to put your
life in the hands of people who kidnap and kill
foreigners.
Journalist Michael Ware, a correspondent for "Time"
magazine, has been working on special assignment in Iraq,
getting inside the groups who are leading the campaign
against coalition forces and the new government the
coalition installed.
What he found is an extremist movement that had never
before existed in Iraq, but is growing in size,
confidence and sophistication there.
On our program today, seeing the insurgency from the
inside.
Length: 3:44
TIME: Meet the New Jihad
The safe house lies on the outskirts of Fallujah in a neighborhood where no Americans have ventured. Inside, a group of Arab sheiks has gathered to discuss the jihad they and their followers are waging against the U.S. The men wear white robes and long beards and greet each other solemnly. They are all Iraqi, but their beliefs are those of the strict Wahhabi strain of Islam repressed under Saddam Hussein. Unlike most Iraqi sitting rooms, this one has no pictures adorning its walls or a television or radio nestled in a corner. Such luxuries are forbidden, just as they were under the Taliban in Afghanistan. At the back of the room are a few men from Saudi Arabia, who stand silently as one of the sheiks, the group's leader, addresses me in Arabic and stilted English. The war in Iraq, he says, is one of liberation, not just of a country but of Muslim lands, Muslim people, Islam itself. There is no room for negotiation with the enemy, no common ground. What he and his men offer is endless, righteous resistance. "Maybe this war will take a long time," he says. "Maybe this is a world war."
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TIME: A Chilling Iraqi Terror Tape
By MICHAEL WARE
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TIME: Where's Bin Laden?
The men of Camp Blessing know they are bait. They dangle far from the formidable, heavily fortified perimeters of other U.S. bases in Afghanistan. Instead of the hundreds or thousands of troops that are in the large encampments, there are only a dozen Green Berets from what is known as Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 936 and a smattering of Marines. But they are dangling far from safety to attract a big catch. "This is Osama bin Laden's backyard," says the team sergeant. "And part of the solution to tracking him is having guys like us out here in isolated areas."
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Charlie Rose -- 3:10
Charlie
talks to Mick by telephone after the bombing at the Mount
Lebanon Hotel.
TIME: Karzai on the Dangers He Faces
Afghan President Hamid Karzai talked with TIME's Tim McGirk and Michael Ware in Kabul:
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TIME: Remember Afghanistan?
Hamid Karzai is lonely. He is huddled, as always, deep inside his presidential palace in Kabul, protected by towering stone walls, growling dogs and U.S. bodyguards. Visitors to the palace must undergo three separate body searches before passing through the arched gates, all under the gaze of trained marksmen standing sentry in a watchtower.
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