Anderson is in Amman,
Jordan... and so is Michael! An unexpected appearance
on a new rooftop (possibly an indication that Mick will
be out of Iraq for a few weeks) as he joins Anderson in
an hour-long discussion of the various options being
kicked around for a way out of the (say it with me)
civil war in Iraq.
Length: 9:30
Mick shows the tail fin of
a mortar round, built this year in Iran and fired last
week from a Shia neighborhood in Baghdad into a Sunni
one.
Length: 4:40
Michael speaks to Paula
about the, you know, not-civil war.
Length: 3:22
Michael talks to Wolf about
the players in the region and who's benefiting most
from the current mess.
Length: 5:06
Michael makes a brief
appearance talking to Don Lemon regarding why the
military still avoids using the term "civil war."
Length: 1:11
Anderson has Reza Aslan
with him in Turkey and Michael on the video link from
Baghdad. They're talking about Iran's involvement in
Iraq and why it's bad news for us.
Length: 4:15
John Roberts talks to Michael as well as Jamie
MacIntire on the whole semantics vs reality thing.
Length: 6:29
Lou asks Michael about the
stability of the Maliki government.
Length: 1:42
Michael keeps trying to
convince CNN that it's a civil war. (So why was NBC the
first network to get it?)
Length: 4:13
Mick is still trying to
convince people it's a civil war. What part of this
slaughter are we not understanding?
Length: 3:58 / 2:25
John Roberts speaks with
Michael (in Baghdad), "Spider" Marks (in DC) and Rajiv
Chandrasekaran (in LA) about the explosive events of
the past few days. The discussion looks to have been
filmed yesterday evening, Baghdad time.
(I just started reading Chandrasekaran's book
yesterday. Another excellent addition to the Iraq
bookshelf.)
Length: 6:39
Mick talks to Kitty Pilgrim
about Muqtada al-Sadr's win-win plan.
Length: 4:31
Michael talks to John King
about the possible goals of al-Sadr's threat and the
spiraling violence.
Length: 4:25
Michael discusses the
events of the last two days.
Length: 3:32 / 2:16 / 2:24
Michael speaks with Soledad
O'Brien about Muqtada al-Sadr's threat-by-proxy to
collapse the Iraqi government if Prime Minister Maliki
meets with President Bush next week.
Length: 4:24
A final report of the
Thanksgiving Day attacks in Sadr City, as Baghdad goes
under curfew.
Length: 2:28
Michael continues to report
on the attacks in and around Sadr City.
Length: 3:21
Violence explodes in Sadr
City after American forces enter the area in search of
the missing soldier. In the hours that followed that
raid, nearby Sunni neighborhoods apparently took an
opportunity to attack. Carbombs, mortars, small-arms
fire... But there's no civil war here, folks.
Length: 2:52 / 2:51 / 3:36
Michael does a
heartbreaking report on the civilian casualties of the
civil war -- a family searching for a missing son amid
the thousands of dead, wounded, and arrested in
Baghdad.
Length: 5:03
Mick recaps the UN report
and upcoming summit for Kitty Pilgrim.
Length: 2:12
Michael talks to John King
about the upcoming meeting between Bush and Maliki.
Length: 2:38
Michael talks with Stephen
Frazier about a new UN report on the number of civilian
Iraqi deaths.
Length: 2:57
John Roberts speaks to
Michael about the Iran/Syria influence in Iraq, and in
the second hour, they are joined by Aneesh Raman (in
Tehran) for more discussion on Iran's role in the
violence.
Length: 2:40 / 4:36
Paula Zahn asks Michael
about the current round of negotiations supposedly
aimed at working towards political solutions.
Length: 2:35
Michael talks to John King
about the assassination in Lebanon and the
repercussions it might have in Iraq.
Length: 3:23
Michael talks to John
Roberts about the current climate in Iraq, as Henry
Kissinger states we cannot win a military-only victory,
and as the politics of the region are tipping away from
us.
Length: 3:35
Michael talks to John King
about Iraqi President Talabani's trip to Iran and the
strengthening of Iranian influence in Iraq.
Length: 3:25
Michael and Anderson
discuss the reported abduction of four American
contractors.
Length: 3:58
Michael updates the
information on the abducted American contractors.
Length: 4:15
Breaking news, first about
a potentially explosive warrant issued by the Shia
government for the arrest of a major Sunni cleric, and
then of the abduction of four American contractors.
Length: 3:58 / 7:07 / 3:21
Michael responds to a
two-part question from Lou involving the Iraqi forces
in whom we have invested so much.
Length: 2:48
Michael and Wolf discuss
the current events in Baghdad and Iraq.
(Note: Wolf played the same
clip on both shows; I am archiving the second one
only.)
Length:
3:06
According to Iraqi
government officials, most of the abductees have been
released.
Length: 2:51
Michael talks to Wolf about
how the events of the morning reflect on Prime Minister
Maliki's control (or lack thereof) of the situation in
Iraq.
Length: 2:51
Michael's pre-recorded
piece explaining the events of the morning.
Length: 2:24
Michael continues to update
the situation on the mass-abduction.
Length: 3:40 / 2:10 / 2:41
Michael begins a long day
of reporting about the brazen abduction of 100 - 150
men from a government building. The abductors wore
Iraqi army/police uniforms and pulled off a highly
organized raid in broad daylight.
Length: 1:44 / 2:48 / 2:40
Anderson asks Michael
whether more troops would help the situation in Iraq.
Length: 2:32
Michael does a prerecorded
summation of the tape from al Qaeda in Iraq.
Length: 1:34
Anderson plays some clips
from today's insurgency message and discusses the
actual capability of the groups to carry out their
threats.
Length: 3:57
Wolf talks to Michael about
today's propaganda tape from al-Qaeda in Iraq,
threatening to blow up the White House, etc etc.
Length: 3:13
Hala talks to Mick about
the audiotape released today by the head of al-Qaeda in
Iraq, in which he taunts Bush and Rumsfeld.
Length: 3:02
Anderson asks Peter Bergen
and Michael about insurgent claims that the election
results are a victory for them.
Length: 6:38
Wolf asks Michael about new
figures calculating the number of civilian Iraqi
deaths.
Length: 2:59
In the first clip, Michael
discusses the Rumsfeld resignation with Wolf Blitzer.
In the second clip, two hours later, Michael discusses
the effect of the election results and the SecDef
resignation with Lou Dobbs.
Length: 3:19 / 2:31
Michael describes the Iraqi
perspective on the US election.
Length: 2:13
Michael discusses the
verdict and the reaction of the Iraqi people.
(Note: these clips were actually part of the "America
Votes" series, but aired during the normal TSR times.)
Length: 2:30 / 3:04
Michael sums up reaction to
the verdict throughout Iraq.
Length: 4:42
The verdicts are announced
in the trial of Saddam Hussein and his cohorts. Michael
discusses the news on CNN International in several
clips over the space of three hours.
(There were some earlier interviews he did that I was
unable to record; unfortunately, the video service CNN
uses does not record Breaking News.)
Length: 6:52 / 1:29 / 1:36 / 7:15 / 5:21 / 4:08 /
7:11
Michael speaks to Soledad
about the Mahdi Army and the on-going search for the
kidnapped American soldier.
Length: 2:44
Michael speaks with Wolf
Blitzer and Paula Zahn about the Mahdi Army.
Length: 3:40 / 5:38
Michael discusses the graph
run by the NYT today, which shows Iraq moving closer to
chaos.
Length: 4:09