Also, this week's blurb for This Week at War:

The Battle for Iraq: Violence is down but can the downward trend be sustained?
Michael Gordon, The New York Times; Author, "Cobra II" (DC)
Michael Ware, CNN International Correspondent (Baghdad)

A terrific interview with Michael was posted today on the website of Asharq Alawsat newspaper.
The interview was conducted while he was in Paris last month.

Q & A with CNN's Michael Ware

14/11/2007
By Enaam Kajjah Ji in Paris


Q: How did the idea of going to Iraq emerge?

A: I went to Kurdistan at the beginning of 2003 before the military attack [on Iraq]. I got to Baghdad after the fall of Tikrit in April 2003. I’ve been there for four and a half years.

(Also available in 655px and 1093px versions.)

Clip 1, 19:29
"I'm nothing more than a witness."

Clip 2, 1:53
"It ain't gonna be Rwanda, but it's gonna be Bosnia."

Clip 3, 1:56
"This is America turning on the government it created."

Clip 4, 3:13
"Under the guidelines of every insurgent or militia group...
journalists fit fairly and squarely as legitimate targets."

CNN's Michael Ware talking about the impact
of the Iraq war on the Presidential election.

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View the photographs taken by Yuri Kozyrev
during the battle of Fallujah

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These photos are copyright Time magazine and Yuri Kozyrev. I have archived them here simply for easier access.

Thanks to Sharon for sending the link.

House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
by SSG David Bellavia with John R. Bruning

I have read a lot of books about the Iraq war. Literally an entire bookshelf worth. Many of them are Very Important Books, the kind that will make their way into course curriculums of the future, that are cited as reference material for other books, that hit the NYTimes best-seller list.

But I have never pressed my friends to read them, never choked up trying to explain why a particular book was so important, never said that they would never forget this book.

Not until House to House.

The Huffington Post has another article about Michael.
(Although what they call "prescience" I would term "lots of smarts and a willingness
to be honest about the situation" ... but I guess that's too long for a headline.)

The Scary Prescience of Michael Ware
Huffington Post   |  Rachel Sklar   |   August 16, 2007 02:23 PM

CNN's Michael Ware, formerly Time's Baghdad correspondent, rarely has good news. Not really surprising, since he's one of the few — very few — journalists who has been in Baghdad since before the U.S. invasion. His reports are often bluntly pessimistic and contradictory of the official version, and all too often, right.

To read the official bio, check out his page on CNN.

This was shown during Michael Holmes' "Month of Mayhem" SIU special.