MSNBC -- 6:43

[This is an Australian magazine that as far as I can tell
is not available in the US. This is an astonishing and
harrowing look at Michael’s work in Iraq.]

Michael does a special report for CBS News regarding the insurgents' plans and the on-going debate on whether there is a civil war yet.

Length: 2:16

Ten days after her abduction, a video of Jill Carroll was released, the first assurance that she was still alive. Mick -- in NYC -- talks to Wolf Blitzer about what might happen next.
 
(NOTE: I missed this interview -- flying to NYC, as it happens -- so this clip was taken from a video. And it shows, I’m afraid. When the heck is CNN gonna make their news shows available for download?)

Length: 2:31

Michael’s in New York City and joins Anderson in the studio to discuss the fate of abducted journalist Jill Carroll. Does the fact that she can speak the language and has shown herself to be sympathetic to the plight of the Iraqi people hold any sway with her captors?
 
Michael also talks about his own brief abduction by Zarqawi’s al-Qaeda group; he is the only Western journalist grabbed by them who was released alive. Further details were not released until the airing of Frontline’s "The Insurgency," which included footage of the incident.

Length: 4:02

Anderson (in Waveland, Mississippi) interviews Peter Bergen (in DC), Aneesh Raman (in Baghdad) and Michael (in Brisbane) on the sectarian violence ripping through Iraq following the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Sumarra. Michael points out that Zarqawi outlined this exact plan to disrupt the democratic process in a letter to Osama bin Laden over a year ago, and that the only group to benefit from this violence is al-Qaeda.

Length: 8:54

Michael, back in Baghdad, appeared on The Situation Room to reflect on the first three years of the war and look ahead to year four.

Length: 6:35

Anderson interviews Michael (in Baghdad) as well as Nic Robertson (likewise) and conservative talk-show host Hugh Hewlitt (NOT in Iraq) regarding the Bush administration’s attempt to paint the dissatisfaction of the American public over the war in Iraq as just a response to the media’s negativity.

Length: 9:03

Anderson, in New Orleans, continues last night’s discussion with Michael, Nic Robertson, Hugh Hewlitt, and additionally, blogger Michael Yon.
 
Length: 9:23

Anderson’s off, but John Roberts talks to Michael about his article in this week’s Time concerning the insurgency and the on-going debate as to whether Iraq is in a civil war.

Length: 4:51

It’s now 12:15 pm local time and he makes his first appearance on AC360, along with Christiane Amanpour (in London). Oddly, Anderson still intros him as being with Time, as do the graphics. I guess the 360 offices aren’t getting all their memos... *g*
 
Fifteen minutes later, his final appearance of the day. Anderson (who has now received the memo, even if Graphics has not) interviews him and Peter Bergen (in Zurich).

Length: 4:49 / 7:54

An hour later, he appears on Paula Zahn Now.
 
Length: 3:15

It’s morning in Australia -- 9:30 Friday morning. Mick appears on The Situation Room.

Length: 4:40

As the news broke about Zarqawi’s death, CNN‘s Miles O’Brien got in touch with Mick in Brisbane. The first conversation was by phone. It was just after 7:30 PM in Brisbane.
 
An hour later, Mick was in the studio. At the end of the interview, Miles breaks away for a live report, but when they come back, Mick cannot hear him.
 
Two hours after that, Miles again speaks with Mick.

Length: 10:24 / 4:50 / 7:22

Mick’s in Atlanta (no doubt champing at the bit to get back to a war zone) and spoke with Kyra Phillips about the connections and similarities between al-Qaeda and Hezbollah.

Length: 5:45

Mick talks to Zain Verjee about the deterioration of conditions in Iraq, following July’s highest-ever death rate.

Length: 3:20

Michael updates Wolf on the implications of the latest 'adjustments.'

Length: 3:59

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

Mick talks to Miles O’Brien about the Washington Post report regarding the lack of troops in al-Anbar province, where al-Qaeda in Iraq currently is basing its operations and growing stronger by the day.

Length: 4:48

Michael speaks with Soledad O'Brien, disputing President Bush's claim that he (the Pres) gets information on the situation in Iraq from people who are experiencing the real situation in Baghdad.

Length: 1:54

Mick files a piece for Lou about the report.

Length: 2:05

Five clips from American Morning, with Michael discussing al-Anbar with Miles and Soledad. (They also later ran the prepared piece from AC360 last night... I think by hour four Mick had finally decided to get some sleep!)

Length: 4:15 / 0:29 / 3:30 / 6:32 / 2:23

Mick talks to Wolf about today's embed, including how the locals reacted to the push by American troops into al-Sadr's territory. (Okay, maybe it wasn't meant as a death threat as much as a warning...)

Length: 5:21

Mick speaks with Wolf about the Baghdad vs. al-Anbar prioritizing and why it is a short-sighted plan. Wolf also asks him about the reason for all the torture and mutilations by the sectarian groups -- it's all to piss off the other side and get things riled up. (Just when you thought the human race couldn't get any more screwed up...)

Length: 4:37

Michael is on the phone with Wolf discussing the British mission in Basra and the feelings of troops and commanders within the US and UK forces.

Length: 5:03

Hala Gorani asks Michael to assess statements made today during the press conference.

Length: 5:23

Michael breaks down who the players are in the insurgency. Considering many people in our government can't tell a Sunni from a Shia, this ought to be required viewing...

Length: 4:17

Michael talks to Wolf about what happened at Sadr City.

Length: 4:21

Michael speaks to Soledad about the Mahdi Army and the on-going search for the kidnapped American soldier.

Length: 2:44

Michael continues to update the situation on the mass-abduction.

Length: 3:40 / 2:10 / 2:41

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

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 talks to John King about the upcoming meeting between Bush and Maliki.

Length: 2:38

Michael describes the Iraqi perspective on the US election.

Length: 2:13

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

Host John Roberts (in Baghdad) interviews Michael and former Washington Post Baghdad Bureau Chief Rajiv Chandraskaran about the current pressures on Nouri al-Maliki's government following a week of very public policy disputes between DC and Baghdad.

Length: 6:43

John Roberts is reporting from Baghdad for the next couple of weeks; tonight he and Michael talk to Larry. Updates on the search for the missing American soldier and today's press conference.

Length: 6:53

Michael updates Lou on today's events.

Length: 1:39

A prepared piece, obviously recorded at the same time as last night's piece for AC360. (He looks, and sounds, exhausted. Does anyone really ever get used to the kinds of conditions the troops live in when they are deployed? I can't imagine how they even function, let alone excel.)

Length: 2:56

Michael finally has video contact, and speaks with Anderson about General Dannatt's comments and the effect that British forces are having in Iraq.

Length: 4:45

Mick speaks with John Roberts about the latest from Baghdad: the death squads, the police units, and the crossover between them.

Length: 4:27

Lou Dobbs shows a short recorded clip of Michael recapping today's violence in Iraq.

Length: 1:53

John Roberts, filling in for Anderson, talks to Michael about the big trench idea.

Length: 4:21

Michael reports on the release of a Sunni member of parliament who was abducted by gunmen July 1.

Length: 2:10

Michael discusses the events of the last two days.

Length: 3:32 / 2:16 / 2:24

Well, this was a surprise... Michael is in NYC and has just arrived from Iraq! (I actually thought I saw him in a clip from a Baghdad press conference yesterday but thought, nah, he's outta there! So where has he been for the past two weeks??)
 
Anyway, tonight he was safe and sound in New York and talking to Anderson about some of the current get-out-of-Iraq scenarios.

Length: 3:22

Michael and General David Grange talk about the reality on the ground in Baghdad.

Length: 2:30 / 1:45

Mick speaks with Heidi Collins about the situation in Ramadi and al-Anbar province.

Length: 5:00

Mick talks to Wolf about the current state of affairs in Iraq and some of the plotting going on.

Length: 3:16

Wolf shows a clip from Tony Snow's press conference where he discussed the videotape offer from the Sunni insurgent group to have direct talks with the US.
 
This interview also aired during the third hour of TSR.

Length: 3:16

Michael's been out talking to The Bad Guys, and gives us some insite into the mind of the enemy.
 
(Whoever subtitled the al Qaeda tape made a notable error, though. The guy says, "Just to let you know that we love to die as you love to live." BIG difference.)

Length: 6:42

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 talks to John King about the assassination in Lebanon and the repercussions it might have in Iraq.

Length: 3:23

Miles O'Brien talks to Michael about the torture victims. (You know, there are just some things that should automatically revoke your membership card in the human race. Using power tools to torture people is definitely one of them.)

Length: 3:28

Michael makes a brief appearance talking to Don Lemon regarding why the military still avoids using the term "civil war."

Length: 1:11

Anderson talks to Michael about Iran’s continuing influence in Iraq. (For those keeping score, Violence: still growing; Americans: still dying; Peace: nowhere in sight.)

Length: 3:24

Michael sums up reaction to the verdict throughout Iraq.

Length: 4:42

Why the big disconnect between the troops on the ground and the politicians running the war? Mick and Lou reach some sad conclusions.

Length: 3:00

Miles O'Brien talks to Mick about the latest uptick in violence -- Kirkuk saw coordinated suicide bombs today -- and other concerns, especially the expected surge in attacks during Ramadan.
 
(The headline refers to the trench-around-Baghdad idea that was floated over the weekend. As his grin indicates, that probably wasn't the "F" word he would have liked to use...)

Length: 3:07

Anderson asks Peter Bergen and Michael about insurgent claims that the election results are a victory for them.

Length: 6:38

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 discusses the graph run by the NYT today, which shows Iraq moving closer to chaos.

Length: 4:09

Mick talks to Jim Clancy about the announcement by twenty tribes that they are uniting against al-Qaeda.

Length: 3:19

Mick has a discussion with Jim Clancy regarding what can be done in Ramadi.

Length: 4:16

Mick gets to relax in the Green Zone for a couple hours while covering the Casey/Khalilzad press conference, and does a stand-up from there to assess what was discussed. (Kind of looks like a college campus there, doesn't it?)

Length: 3:35

Michael talks to Lou Dobbs about the still-increasing violence in Iraq and the fact that our troops are still badly outnumbered.

Length: 2:23

Mick talks to Wolf...

Length: 3:35

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki today insisted that American forces remove the cordon around Sadr City (where they are searching for the missing American soldier and a few of the most violent militia leaders). And the cordon was removed. Maliki needs the support of Muqtada al-Sadr to stay in office; America needs al-Maliki to stay in office to have any chance of an even mildly positive end to this mess.
 
(So AT BEST, Iraq will end up with a marionette leader whose strings are held by one of the most radical Shia clerics. Our boys are dying for this?? Brilliant planning...)

Length: 4:28

Michael does a prerecorded summation of the tape from al Qaeda in Iraq.

Length: 1:34

Mick recaps the UN report and upcoming summit for Kitty Pilgrim.

Length: 2:12

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

...Paula...

Length: 5:05

Anderson asks Michael whether more troops would help the situation in Iraq.

Length: 2:32

Michael talks with Wolf about the realities of life in Baghdad.

Length: 3:40

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

Michael makes three appearances on American Morning, discussing early reports that the new al-Qaeda in Iraq leader, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was killed by coalition forces.

Length: 2:07 / 2:52 / 2:38

Anderson (in Afghanistan) runs a piece Mick prepared about the situation in al-Anbar, followed by a very brief discussion of the situation.

Length: 6:56

Michael speaks with Wolf about the current conditions in Iraq.

Length: 3:25

Michael responds to a two-part question from Lou involving the Iraqi forces in whom we have invested so much.

Length: 2:48

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

Michael reports from another embed -- this time, he's joining the soldiers in Baghdad during their first push inside Muqtada al-Sadr's turf.

Length: 2:39

Michael updates the information on the abducted American contractors.

Length: 4:15

Soledad O’Brien has a roundtable discussion about whether or not it’s a civil war. (I left Bill Schneider’s opening comment in because I think he makes an excellent point.) As Mick points out, the U.S. government definition of the term keeps shifting because no matter how high they raise the bar, the violence meets and then exceeds it. Never a good sign.

Length: 3:55

Michael discusses the end-of-Ramadan decrease in violence within Baghdad.

Length: 1:56 / 2:45 / 2:39

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

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

Michael talks to John King about the kidnapping.

Length: 6:26

A short recorded piece regarding the al-Anbar controversy.

Length: 1:57

According to Iraqi government officials, most of the abductees have been released.

Length: 2:51

Iraqi officials set up their own Ramadan propaganda campaign: they claim they will have al-Masri by the end of the month. It's not the first time they've made that kind of challenge, just the first directed at him.

Length: 2:20

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

How fragile is the Iraqi government? It's not hard to figure that anything propped up by us and by the very militias we are trying to eliminate can't be all that stable. Michael discusses it with Wolf.

Length: 2:55

A pre-recorded piece about the video.
 
Note: This piece also ran on Your World Today at 9 a.m. PT.

Length: 2:38

Wolf asks Michael about whether the insurgency is ramping up the violence to coincide with the midterm elections and the comparisons to Vietnam. (Anyone else thinking about Haig's "cannon fodder" comment?)

Length: 3:37

More updates on the kidnapping.

Length: 3:44 / 3:22

Michael is embedded with British forces in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. He speaks with Tony Harris by telephone on the troops current situation and the level agreement with British commander General Sir Richard Dannatt that the forces should leave Iraq soon because they are exacerbating the violence.

Length: 3:59

Lou asks Michael about the stability of the Maliki government.

Length: 1:42

Michael's back in Baghdad, and has an exclusive video-response interview with the leader of one of the largest insurgent groups. (CNN sent a list of questions, they received a video back with the replies.)
 
Of course, the offer to meet with American officials to discuss a ceasefire will not be accepted; there is simply no way that US officials will acquiesce to the conditions mentioned. (A "formal recognition" of the insurgency? To give them diplomatic equality with the elected government, no matter how ineffectual that government may be, would be to undo the whole point of our going in there.) It would be nice to think that this is the first step in something that might lead to talks, but I'm far too cynical to think that will happen.

Length: 3:40

Michael talks to John King about the realities on the ground in Iraq.

Length: 3:33

Incredible footage from an embed in Ramadi... the closest most of will ever come to being under fire. I honestly don't know how these Marines cope with this, day in and day out, yet they consider it just doing their job. Michael's admiration of (and concern for) these guys comes through in all his work, but this piece is special.

Length: 7:54

John Roberts replays the Ramadi footage shown last night and then talks to Mick about it. This is just the interview portion.

Length: 2:19

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

More from Camp Liberty about today's action.

Length 3:13

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

Mick talks to Kitty Pilgrim about Muqtada al-Sadr's win-win plan.

Length: 4:31

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

Wolf asks Michael about the reasons behind SecState Rice's visit to Baghdad.

Length: 3:21

Michael and Wolf discuss the current military and political situation in Iraq, especially in al-Anbar province, where al-Qaeda is currently basing operations and building strength.

Length: 4:11

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

Michael talks to Jim Clancy about the violence, the death squads, the Iraqi government's involvement... same old-same old, only worse every day. They took an entire brigade of Iraqi police off the streets in order to investigate their involvement in the kidnappings and tortures. Not only are the Iraqis not standing up, they are using us to help them settle scores.

Length: 4:19

As Anderson anchors special coverage of the execution of Saddam Hussein, Michael comments via telephone from Brisbane.

Length: 3:53 / 2:43 / 2:25 / 5:09

Michael talks to Wolf about the possibilities of changing course in Iraq.

Length: 4:09

Anderson talks to Michael about the situation with the death squads.

Length: 5:00

The sniper video, more on the insurgent video, and comments on both of them.

Length: 8:10 / 5:25 / 5:02

Rick Sanchez fills in for Anderson, and Mick’s back in Baghdad, reporting for the first time from his new CNN “home.” Of course, since he was last there in April, the situation has become even more deadly and unstable. Sad to think he was safer on a rooftop in Beirut with bombs being dropped from the sky than he is in a city that American troops have been occupying for more than three years...

Length: 2:52

Wolf asks Michael about new figures calculating the number of civilian Iraqi deaths.

Length: 2:59

Michael talks to Wolf about the tape and gives a little more detail about who this group is and what they want.

Length: 5:29

Michael's pre-recorded piece explaining the events of the morning.

Length: 2:24

Michael talks about the current situation in Baghdad and Muqtada al-Sadr's ability to get American forces to release his associate, suspected of insurgent activities.

Length: 4:33

Michael talks to John King about the possible goals of al-Sadr's threat and the spiraling violence.

Length: 4:25

Mick talks to Wolf about the new tape/threat from al-Qaeda in Iraq, as well as the likelihood of the violence decreasing next year. (Not bloody likely...)

Length: 4:08

A brief piece on the deaths in Iraq over the past few days.

Length: 1:23

Anderson talks to Mick and Peter Bergen about the real situation on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Length: 6:17

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 does a short clip for Lou Dobbs regarding the worsening situation in Iraq.

Length: 1:07

Wolf asks Michael about the expected increase in violence during the month of Ramadan, which starts in about a week.

Length: 5:41

Mick speaks with Jim Clancy about the latest in the Ramadan offensive: a call from al Qaeda in Iraq leader al-Masri for his followers to kidnap Westerners.
 
Length: 3:00

Michael speaks with Wolf Blitzer and Paula Zahn about the Mahdi Army.

Length: 3:40 / 5:38

A replay of the lengthy piece shown on AC360 last night, followed by a new live interview with Heidi Collins. The first clip is the full thing, the second is the interview only.

Length: 6:40 / 2:27

Anderson and Mick discuss the violence, the torture, the insanity. Prepare to be horrified, again, by the crazy people.

Length: 3:55

Michael is part of a panel discussion -- along with Barbara Starr and Maj. Gen. Don Shepperd -- summing up the Iraq situation.

Length: 7:09

Mick is still with the troops in Ramadi as they try to establish a foothold against al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Length: 1:05

Paula asks Michael about the ongoing violence and the number of displaced Iraqi civilians.

Length: 2:52

Michael talks with Stephen Frazier about a new UN report on the number of civilian Iraqi deaths.

Length: 2:57

Wolf talks to both Michael and Barbara Starr about the current situation in Iraq, playing some clips from today’s Congressional hearing, contrasting them with earlier statements.

Length: 6:19

Mick talks to Wolf about the Postreport on the situation in al-Anbar.

Length: 3:54

Michael narrates a prepared piece about the current state of democracy in Iraq. He is onscreen only for a quick moment during one of the interviews.
 
Length: 3:49

Michael continues to report on the attacks in and around Sadr City.

Length: 3:21

A second replay of the al Qaeda piece (with the best, least intrusive graphics) followed by a live interview with Jim Clancy. Again, the first clip is the entire thing, the second is just the interview.

Length: 7:03 / 2:20

Mick talks to John Roberts about today's events in Baghdad.

Length: 3:07

Michael appears via video from Baghdad (where it is 7 a.m. Saturday morning) to discuss the current situation. An excellent interview.

Length: 8:40

Michael talks to Kyra Phillips about the brigade of Iraqi police taken off the streets due to their infiltration by Shiite death squads.

Length: 3:21

...Anderson, with Peter Bergen...

Length: 5:29

Michael was one of the main contributors to this amazing episode of the PBS series. This is a compilation of clips covering his portions of the episode.

"The Insurgency" is produced and directed by Tom Roberts, and co-produced by Matt Haan, but a lot of this new report comes courtesy of the contacts and personal video journals of Michael Ware of Time magazine. He and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, a photojournalist from Iraq whose access to insurgents is equally impressive, get very close to their subjects.
 
In one case, too close. There's a frightening piece of footage here, as part of the 2004 battle for internal control of the city of Tal'Afar, in which Ware comes face to face with a terrorist intent on killing him.
 
Ware is documenting, with his handheld video camera, proof of a Ba'athist claim that the insurgent forces of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi so brazenly controlled the town that their flags adorned its main boulevard. Ware sees one flag, then another, and films them. In the process, he films one of Zarqawi's men, who leaps from the curb, screams for the vehicle to stop, and heads right toward Ware and his camera.
 
The camera captures, in freeze-frame, the rebel soldier pulling the pin on his grenade, and walking forward with apparent murderous intent. Ware lives to tell the tale - but at the moment that image is frozen, it's hard to imagine how.

Length: 19:39

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

Three reports regarding the search for a missing US soldier, reported kidnapped while visiting famiily in Iraq, and a pre-recorded piece about today's press conference complete with more reality checks on the "new" benchmarks announced there.

Length: 2:07 / 2:26 / 3:02

Mick tells Lou about the latest proof that Iran is providing weapons to Iraqi insurgents.

Length: 2:26

Michael appears on The Situation Room to talk about situation in Sadr City and the risks faced by reporters and civilians in Baghdad.

Length: 7:09

Michael updates the situation in the capital and beyond.

Length: 2:45

Mick reports again from Ramadi, still embedded with Marines there.

Length: 3:46

Michael talks to Betty Nguyen and T.J. Holmes about the state of things in Iraq.

Length: 4:36 / 4:27 / 1:32

Mick does a report on American deaths in Iraq... 12 so far, in three days.

Length: 2:19

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

Michael discusses the recent report about missing American weapons.

Length: 2:34

Anderson’s in DC covering the State of the Union, Michael’s still in New York and gives his response to the speech as far as the situation in Iraq. (”Political gymnastics” is his summation.)

Length: 2:49

Michael talks to Paula about SecState Rice's visit to Baghdad and the deadly October statistics.

Length: 3:08

Paula Zahn asks Michael about the current round of negotiations supposedly aimed at working towards political solutions.

Length: 2:35

A final report of the Thanksgiving Day attacks in Sadr City, as Baghdad goes under curfew.

Length: 2:28

WOLF: President Bush and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld want the U.S. military, the U.S. policy to stay the course, if you will, to continue doing what it has been doing. Colin Powell is quoted as saying today, "Staying the course isn't good enough because a course has to have an end."
 
MICHAEL: Colin Powell is right. Staying the course will only further strengthen America's enemies.
 
Any questions?

Length: 4:00

Al Qaeda today announced that Iraq is now "The Islamic State of Iraq." I guess among the lessons they learned from Vietnam is the "Declare victory" part...

Length: 2:25

Michael talks to Wolf about the players in the region and who's benefiting most from the current mess.

Length: 5:06

More about the video from Islamic Army of Iraq, the coalition (as it were) or many of the Sunni insurgent groups. In the first clip, Michael talks to Soledad about the tape and its implications; the second clip is a brief "Around the World" promo; the third is a recorded piece on the video.
 
Note: the piece from the third clip also aired on NewsRoom as noon PT and Lou Dobbs Tonight at 3 pm PT.

Length: 3:26 / 0:36 / 2:51

Mick talks to Soledad and Miles about the 2004 intelligence report that was leaked to the Washington Post last week.

Length: 1:40 / 0:34 / 3:34 / 2:26 / 1:45

Mick phones in from Ramadi and describes the conditions that American troops are dealing with -- hot meals, showers, and sleep are rare commodities in the small forward bases they are establishing inside the heartland of al-Qaeda.

Length: 2:10

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

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

Mick does voiceover on a night-vision recorded embed he went on in Ramadi last night. As Anderson says in the intro, the outcome was not what was planned... It’s a heart-stopping piece that brings home the difficult, dangerous, and deadly task American troops are dealing with there.

Length: 5:21

Mick, still in Ramadi, marks a grim milestone: the number of American deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq has now surpassed those from the 9/11 attacks.

Length: 1:21

Mick’s first interview as a CNN correspondent. He’s in Brisbane, speaking to Larry about the Haditha killings that are being investigated because of a Time magazine report.
 
Larry welcomes Mick to the CNN team, and Mick’s grin says it all. Insha’allah, indeed.

Length: 3:05

John Roberts asks Mick whether the Iraqi people think it's time for us to get out of Iraq. (Ya think?!)

Length: 4:02

Anderson talks to Michael (and Peter Bergen) about the current situation in Iraq. Also, Anderson addresses the controversy caused by last night's airing of the sniper video.

Length: 1:36 / 0:48 / 1:57

Michael and Anderson discuss the reported abduction of four American contractors.

Length: 3:58

Michael does a summation of today's violence in Iraq.

Length: 1:22

Michael speaks to Paula about the, you know, not-civil war.

Length: 3:22

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

Wolf asks Michael to comment on President Bush's assertion that we are winning the war in Iraq.

Length: 3:32

Michael talks to Miles about the latest efforts by the al-Maliki government to look like they are cracking down on the death squads.
 
And an "Around the World" brief.

Length: 3:29 / 0:48

Michael is still in New York, and this morning talks to Miles O'Brien about how the militias continue to re-arm and what it is like to be a journalist in Iraq.

Length: 3:38

Mick does a brief recap of the recent tribal treaty in Al Anbar province.

Length: 1:58

On March 12, 2006, 60 Minutes did a piece on the battle at Tal’Afar. Michael is interviewed and much of the footage he recorded of the battle is used.

Length: 11:28

Mick (back in Baghdad) discusses the most recent increase in violence with Anderson (who is in Kabul.) Anderson is in Afghanistan in preparation for the 9/11 anniversary next week and covered a car bombing this morning -- such bombings are rare in Afghanistan, but the Taliban fighters seem to be studying al-Qaeda methods.

Length: 3:29

Mick talks to Paula about the Ramadan offensive and the poll that shows most Iraqis want the Americans to leave.

Length: 3:47

John Roberts talks to Michael as well as Jamie MacIntire on the whole semantics vs reality thing.

Length: 6:29

Michael talks to Paula about the tape.

Length: 3:16

Michael speaks to Paula by phone about the airstrike on the convoy.

Length: 2:47

Michael again talks to Wolf via phone from near the scene of the attack on the convoy.

Length: 2:27

Michael is on the phone from the place where part of the Marjayoun convoy was hit by an Israeli drone airstrike. As he reports, another Israeli drone appears and someone yells to him to get away from the vehicles.
 
Also included is an update from Brent Sadler on why the Israelis attacked this breakaway faction of the convoy.

Length: 5:54

We join CNN International in the midst of Michael’s report on the convoy of 1500 vehicles leaving Marjayoun. The cars stream past behind him as he talks about the civilian flight from the fighting.

Length: 3:23

Michael speaks with Daryn Kagan from outside Marjayoun as a massive caravan of civilian vehicles prepares to leave the area.

Length: 3:42

Michael spent the day in the Bekaa Valley (as he points out, on the receiving end of the rockets being launched from the Israeli artillery position where John Roberts is stationed.)
 
Length: 5:26

Michael talks to Anderson about the possibility of a ceasefire and what would need to be agreed upon for both sides to agree to one. Also, an update on what’s been going on in Iraq.

Length: 7:00

Michael talks to Larry about the Israeli airstrike on the Sidon refugee camp he visited last week as well as the situation in Tyre. He also answers an email from a viewer regarding the Lebanese Army taking on Hezbollah.

Length: 5:07

Michael is part of the discussion on the current state of the conflict and the peace talks. Also, a recorded piece from Michael’s weekend trip to the Bekaa Valley, where he toured bombing locations and spoke with Hezbollah supporters.

Length: 10:38

Michael speaks with Larry about the likelihood of the Lebanese Army taking on Hezbollah as terms of a cease-fire.

Length: 2:32

Michael talks to Paula about his weekend trip to the Bekaa Valley and what he witnessed of Hezbollah’s structure and force capabilities.

Length: 3:12

Michael phones one in from the Bekaa Valley as he tours the Hezbollah heartland again. (This time, the audio issue isn’t my fault, just a byproduct of the broadband connection.)

Length: 3:15

During the second hour of the show, Michael gives another update from Beirut and discusses Israeli goals.
 
Length: 4:26

During the first hour of the show, Anderson speaks with Michael in Beirut as another night of bombing continues.

Length: 7:47

Michael talks to Carol Costello (filling in for Paula) about the overnight airstrike in the Lebanese city of Qaa, the continuing effort by the Israelis to cut Hezbollah’s resupply lines, and how that is affecting the Lebanese citizens.

Length: 3:39

Michael talks to Wolf during a lull in the Beirut bombing campaign.

Length: 5:52

Michael makes a rare appearance on Lou Dobbs’ show (although Lou is not there) to discuss the latest airstrikes in Lebanon.

Length: 3:28

Anderson talks to Michael throughout the show, starting in darkness and ending well after dawn.

During the second hour of the show, Anderson does a “24 Hours Under Attack” special and includes Michael’s piece from Baalbeck.

Length: 12:01 / 3:07

Michael finally puts on a flak jacket! (Now CNN just needs to get him one of the new models the other reporters are wearing...)

Length: 0:41

Michael speaks with Paula about the second night of bombardment of the Lebanese capital.

Length: 9:40

Wolf talks to Michael about tonight’s air bombardment.

Length: 6:21

Anderson speaks with Michael about Baalbeck and the Beirut bombings. Michael has another prepared piece from the town of Baalbeck, which runs in both hours.

Length: 11:20

Larry leads off his show with Mick’s off-air reaction to what would have been at least the fourth bomb today. (I hope CNN puts that in one of the commercials. Hey, John Roberts got in last week for his reaction to the artillery launch behind him, it’s only fair!)

Length: 4:58

Michael speaks with Paula about the airstrikes heard in the last hour.

Length: 3:52

Michael is on the air with Wolf describing his trip to Baalbeck when the air bombardment of Lebanon starts up again. Four explosions are recorded during the show.
 
(I especially like the last one Wolf shows, where although there is no audio, Michael can be seen saying, “That was closer.”)

Length: 24:46

After last night’s raid by the Israelis into the Bekaa Valley town of Baalbek, Michael spent time there today getting a look at the results. Three versions of his recorded piece aired on American Morning, with a video that appears to have been sent by broadband. First is his original version.
 
In the second hour, same voiceover but some new images, many of them from Lebanese television. Also, a slightly longer hold on the end reveals his displeasure with the take.
 
In hour three, most of the original video is back.

Length: 1:25 / 1:22 / 1:13

Anderson talks to Mick about the Baalbeck mission and what news they have been learning about it.

Length: 11:40

Mick speaks to Larry about the Baalbeck operation and what the possible targets might be.

Length: 2:22

Mick does another prepared piece on the 48-hour ceasefire of air attacks and the increasing shortages of needed items like food, medicine, and gasoline.

Length: 4:34

Mick speaks again with Wolf about the Israeli SpecOps mission into the Bakaa Valley stronghold of Hezbollah.

Length: 4:07

Mick talks to Wolf about a new Israeli offensive in the town of Baalbeck in the infamous Bekaa Valley.

Length: 2:50

Mick does his first prepared piece for CNN: a trip to a refugee camp of sorts in southern Lebanon where enemies of Israel are given safe haven and the nation’s army and police are not allowed inside. (So of course, the crazy Aussie figures this would be a good place to visit in the middle of a war...) Not only is it a fascinating piece, but he gets to use his FM-DJ voice, do some interviews, and give a walk-and-talk summation. It’s followed by a live interview with Anderson.

Length: 4:50

Michael joins a panel discussion on Reliable Sources regarding how the media is reporting on the war.

Length: 6:00

Michael is on the street, covering the aftermath of this morning’s riot at the UN headquarters in Beirut for CNN Sunday Morning.

Length: 2:41

The second hour of 360 is the special “24 Hours Under Attack,” which features an interview Anderson did with Mick on Tuesday regarding Hezbollah’s tactics and their goals during the current conflict.

Length: 4:02

John Roberts covers for Anderson, and talks with both Mick and John King.  Mick once again discusses the Hezbollah munitions and distance capabilities.

Length: 5:18

Wolf talks to Michael about the military capabilities of Hezbollah -- what, exactly, do they have in their arsenal and how far into Israel might they be capable of reaching?
 
(Not sure whether the “Senior International Correspondent” banner reflects a promotion or just an over-eager graphics crew.)

Length: 2:55

CNN/Beirut has finally left the streetcorner and gone up to a rooftop. Must be planning to stay awhile...
 
Mick does not think that al-Zawahiri’s call for jihadis to come to Lebanon will be much of a success because of the sectarian issues and the nature of the conflict there.
 
(And judging from the “ready to run a marathon” fidgeting when he thought the camera was off him, Mick’s gotten used to the god-awful-early-hours he’s keeping over there!)

Length: 5:22

Wolf talks to Michael regarding the latest terror-tape from al-Qaeda (wherein #2 al-Zawahiri expounds that everyone is picking on the terrorists.)

Length: 4:12

Anderson speaks to Mick regarding the earlier story he broke that additional Lebanese forces are fighting alongside Hezbollah. Western hopes that the Lebanese Army could step in and stop Hezbollah seem to be seriously misplaced.

Length: 2:43

Larry talks to a panel of CNN reporters covering the Middle East, including Mick. How long can Hezbollah hold up against the IDF?

Length: 2:37

It’s just after 8 p.m. in Beirut, and although Kyra Phillips throws to Mick for an update on the re-opening of the airport there, he instead breaks a story that has much larger implications: the militia loyal to the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament has been fighting alongside Hezbollah throughout the current conflict.

Length: 4:06

Anderson, in northern Israel, speaks to Michael in Beirut regarding the strength of Hezbollah and how long the war may continue. Michael says that he’s been told that Israel has so far destroyed only a small portion of Hezbollah’s arsenal.

Length: 4:17

Anderson (in Haifa, Israel) interviews Michael as the 14th day of the war dawns. They discuss the nature of insurgency warfare and the ease with which Hezbollah can be rearmed by Iran and Syria.

Length: 3:42

Mick reports from Beirut as Secretary of State Rice arrives to meet with the leaders of Lebanon and Israel.

Length: 3:23 / 3:57 / 2:49