Michael did a telephone interview with a radio program yesterday afternoon (late morning in Brisbane) to discuss the role of the Australian army in Afghanistan:

John Laws Morning Show -- 6:48

Michael appeared on ABC News in Brisbane tonight to discuss the ways he feels the Australian government is letting down their soldiers: Well-known war correspondent Michael Ware says Australian troops are "fighting, bleeding, sweating and dying" in a vacuum of silence in Afghanistan. Ware accuses the Australian Government of not informing the public about the broader nature of the Afghan war.

Length: 7:30...28.3MB

Earlier this month, the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney hosted a two-day summit titled The 9/11 Decade: How Everything Changed. During the first session, Michael asked a question of the panelists. (Sadly, the cameras were not set up to capture the audience.)

Michael specifically directed the question to Dennis Richardson (the former head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, on the left) who sidestepped it completely, leaving it to US Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich to address.

Length: 1:36

Length: 14:12

LARGE (81.4 MB) ----- SMALL (15.5 MB)

(This is the download from their website and it isn’t great quality.)

High-res version (worthy of watching full-screen)
88.6 MB

Death will rally faithful

• Michael Ware From:
  The Courier-Mail May 03, 2011 12:00AM

FAMILIAR TERRITORY: Journalist Michael Ware covering the conflict in Iraq. Source: Supplied

BARACK Obama and his agency chiefs could not have scripted the killing of Osama bin Laden better if they had tried.

In a daring, breathtaking and clinically lethal operation they cut him down right where he lived.

The raid makes the passing of a long, bloody decade of war since 9/11. It comes as the great price of treasure and blood - around 6000 US combat deaths and hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths - continues to be paid.

But in August last year US intelligence finally unearthed the lead they had been so desperately seeking. It allowed them to track and hunt down the masterfully elusive al-Qa'ida leader in a plush Pakistani mansion.

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Here is the interview that aired live yesterday:

The Grill Team --- 3:40

Hunting for Osama bin Laden
By Sarah Collerton
Two journalists close to the story of the hunt for Osama bin Laden are Michael Ware and Nick Bryant.
Former CNN and Time journalist Ware is the only Westerner kidnapped by Al Qaeda to be released alive. The Brisbane-born reporter spent several years in Afghanistan and Iraq.
BBC journalist Bryant was the broadcaster's Washington correspondent during the 9/11 attacks. He was embedded with US troops in Afghanistan in 2003 and also spent time in Pakistan.
Here they share their thoughts about bin Laden's death and the nearly decade-long manhunt for the Al Qaeda leader. Read More...

A radio interview from yesterday. (This is not the same interview that Triple M aired live, this is from their podcast.)

The Grill Team --- 6:24

Michael was back on Channel 7 news this morning to discuss the affect that OBL’s death would mean to al Qaeda:

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Al-Qa'ida's story is far from over following Osama bin Laden's death

Michael Ware
From: Herald Sun
May 03, 2011 12:00AM

THEY couldn't have done it better - the killing of Osama bin Laden.

In a daring, breathtaking and clinically lethal operation they cut him down right where he lived.

The raid makes the passing of a long, bloody decade of war since 9/11 - about 6000 US combat deaths and hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths.



Read More...