Michael Ware

Michael Ware, a native of Brisbane, Australia, is CNN's Baghdad correspondent. Ware "has spent the past several years covering war zones for Time Magazine as well as Australia’s Channel 7. Until May of 2006 he was Baghdad Bureau Chief for Time," and, in May 2006, "joined CNN as part of their Baghdad team." [1]

Speaking of the sectarian violence in Iraq, on January 30, 2007, Anderson Cooper said "CNN's Michael Ware has spent years in Iraq watching things get to this point that he described as four separate wars unfolding at once."

"There are two types of war correspondent - those who stick to the circuit of military briefings, safe hotels and careful excursions into unstable areas, and those who throw themselves at the job with apparently reckless disregard for their own safety. Mike Ware is one of the latter. Writing from Afghanistan and Iraq for 'Time' magazine, he spent much of the past few years behind enemy lines, bringing back stories of the Taliban, Afghani war lords and, more recently, Iraqi insurgents," Andrew Denton wrote in July 2004 for Australia's ABC network.

Articles by Michael Ware

• "Encountering the Taliban. A TIME correspondent tracks down unrepentant anti-American forces who vow to keep fighting," TIME Magazine, March 22, 2002.
• "Meet the New Jihad," Time, June 27, 2004. re Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the prime training ground for foreign terrorists
• "Into the Hot Zone," TIME Canada (Free Republic), November 22, 2004. re David Bellavia
• "Iraq's Turn for the Worse Brings U.S. and Baathists Closer," TIME, March 15, 2006. re Iraqi insurgency
• "Can Iraq's Militias Be Tamed? As the killings continue, TIME meets fighters on both sides of Iraq's sectarian divide--and finds hope that all-out civil war can be avoided," TIME, April 2, 2006. re civil war in Iraq

External links

Profiles

• Profile: Michael Ware, CNN.
• Michael Ware in the Wikipedia.
• Unofficial website: http://www.mickware.com/.

Transcripts and Interviews with Michael Ware

• Transcript: "Time reporter: Iraqi resistance finely organized, cutthroat," CNN Access, December 8, 2003.
• Andrew Denton, Transcript: Enough Rope: Michael Ware, ABC (Australia), July 26, 2004.
• Interview: Michael Ware: "Inside the Insurgency," PBS Frontline, February 21, 2006.
• "Bill Maher and Michael Ware," The Third Path Blog, March 25, 2006.
• Transcripts: Lou Dobbs Tonight, CNN, November 24, 2006.
• "Michael Ware on Civil War in Iraq," CNN, added to YouTube November 27, 2006.
• Transcript: Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees, CNN, January 30, 2007.
• John Amato, "Michael Ware to Joe Lieberman: We're Only Talking about the Surface," Crooks and Liars, March 29, 2007. Ware on CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.
• "Video: Michael Ware Debunks Joe Lieberman's Happy Iraq Talk," OliverWillis.com, March 29, 2007.
• Transcript: American Morning, CNN, April 2, 2007.
• "Michael Ware Discusses The Heckling Incident," CNN, added to YouTube April 2, 2007.

Articles & Commentary

• "Journalist spends time with Iraqi insurgents," ABC Lateline (Australia), January 7, 2004.
• Brent Sadler, "Reporter gets inside look at insurgency. Attack videos put journalist at personal, professional risk," CNN, July 8, 2004.
• Janie, "Michael Ware Tells it Like it Is," News Hounds, January 20, 2006.
• "CNN's Baghdad reporter says Iraq is embroiled in 'civil war,' but rest of network is still hedging," Media Matters for America, November 28, 2006.
• "CNN: Bush-Backed Shiite Group Receiving Weapons Shipments From Iran," Think Progress, February 12, 2007.
• Amanda Terkel, "CNN: Military Sources Respond To McCain’s Escalation Remark With ‘Laughter Down The Line’," Think Progress, March 27, 2007.
• Joe Sudbay, "McCain insists Baghdad is safe. From Baghdad, CNN's Michael Ware is not sure what part of Neverland McCain is talking about," AMERICAblog, March 28, 2007.
• Betsy L. Angert, "John McCain, Michael Ware: The Truth About Iraq," My Left Wing, March 28, 2007.
• Joe Sudbay, "McCain insists Baghdad is safe. From Baghdad, CNN's Michael Ware is not sure what part of Neverland McCain is talking about," AMERICAblog, March 28, 2007.
• Matt Drudge, "McCain heckled by CNN reporter," Drudge Report, April 1, 2007.
• Jonathan Miller, "Blogswarm head's up: Michael Ware," Blogoland, April 1, 2007.
• Nico Pitney, "Drudge Smears CNN’s Michael Ware As Alcoholic Activist, Ware Responds," Think Progress, April 2, 2007.
• Daniel Schulman, "Who's Gunning for Michael Ware?" MoJoBlog / MotherJones, April 2, 2007.
• Joe Sudbay, "McCain's Iraq delusions, Part II," AMERICAblog, April 2, 2007.
• Michael Roston and David Edwards, "CNN reporter slams Drudge's charge that he 'heckled' McCain; Exclusive video confirms his claim," The Raw Story, April 2, 2007.
• Mark Memmott, "CNN's Ware fires back at Drudge report about 'heckling'," On Deadline Blog/USA TODAY, April 2, 007.
• "Oh WALNUTS! McCain's Henchmen Spread Dirty Lie About CNN Reporter," Wonkette!, April 2, 2007.
• Matthew Balan, "CNN's Michael Ware Denies Heckling John McCain," NewsBusters, April 2, 2007.
• ecthompson, "Reporter Michael Ware responses to Drudge Report," Where's the Outrage? Blog, April 3, 2007.
• Joy-Ann Reid, "Smearing Michael Ware," Reid Report Blog, April 3, 2007.
• Michael Roston, "Blogs accuse CNN reporter of disrupting McCain press conference again," The Raw Story, April 4, 2007.
• Ilana Mercer, "Mummified McCain," Free-Market News, April 4, 2007.