2GB (Sydney radio): Michael Ware – the only Westerner known to escape an Iraqi beheading
Michael Ware – the only Westerner known to escape an Iraqi beheading
Friday August 22, 2014
Michael Ware tells a compelling story of his experience at the hands of Islamists wanting to create an Islamic State. He was almost executed by the group that began the current push. Michael speaks about the brutality he witnessed at the hands of these people. Michael Ware is presently making a documentary on the subject.
Triple J Hack: Islamic State executes US hostage
ABC (AUS) - Conversations with Richard Fidler
21 August, 2014 11:35AM AEST
Michael Ware
Journalist Michael Ware returns to discuss the guiding ideals of jihadist group, Islamic State.
Michael is a former correspondent for Time magazine and CNN, and delivered some of the most reliable and candid on-the-ground reporting from Iraq.
Today he explains the origins of Islamic State (I.S.) the powerful and viciously cruel group now controlling parts of Iraq and Syria.
Michael knows these jihadists: he was kidnapped by them in 2004.
Michael's documentary Only the Dead, will be released in 2015.
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2014/08/21/4071673.htm?site=conversations
UPDATE: Podcast now available at https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/conversations-richard-fidler/id94688506?mt=2&i=317972085
Courier-Mail -- Journalism Matters: A high price paid for the truth
- MICHAEL WARE
- THE COURIER-MAIL
- AUGUST 20, 2014 12:00AM
Australian TV cameraman Harry Burton was killed in Afghanistan in 2001.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more …
DID Harry Burton know he was about to be executed? Against giant bare rock, standing in the dirt. When his car was stopped and he was dragged out of it?
Did he know, I’ve long wondered? Asking myself that over and over ever since his murder in 2001.
Even as I found that lonely patch of road and stood there, months later, in silent testament. Grieving. Heaving. On that dusty little highway, by a winding mountain river, on the road to the Afghan capital Kabul. I wondered.
– William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act III, Scene I.
Shooting the bird
...so you can guess the pose!
Courier-Mail re ISIS
VICIOUS, EVIL REALITY OF IRAQ JIHAD
MICHAEL WARE, WAR CORRESPONDENT
ISLAMIC terrorists — more vicious, more radical and more dangerous than al-Qaeda — have created their own country in the Middle East.
Spanning parts of Syria and Iraq, they have named this the Islamic State.
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Mornings with Steve Austin (AUS radio)
USA begins humanitarian air drops in Iraq
08 August 2014 , 11:04 AM by Gabrielle Burke
US officials are reporting that an humanitarian air drop has begun in Iraq.
Around forty thousand Kurds are trapped without food or water on Mount Sinjar near the Syrian border, having fled there when ISIS forces took over.
Michael Ware is a former Baghdad bureau chief for CNN and Time magazine reporter.
He spoke with Steve Austin about ISIS and the current situation in Iraq.
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