michael ware
Despite the change in administration, CNN’s Michael Ware, who regularly issued doom-and-gloom reports on Iraq in past years, bluntly stated during a report on Thursday’s Anderson Cooper 360 that ‘America cannot win the war in Afghanistan…with bombs and bullets,’ and offered that the only solution to the attacks on NATO troops was ‘cutting deals’ with the Taliban and its leader, Mullah Omar. [1]
Michael Ware is a CNN correspondent based in the international news network’s Baghdad bureau. [2]
And if you’re very lucky, what you end up with is Michael Ware. [3]
Michael Ware, a native of Brisbane, Australia, is CNN ’s Baghdad correspondent. [4]
Michael Ware is an Australian journalist reporting for CNN as an international correspondent based in Baghdad. [5]
It’s hard not to admire the hell out of Michael Ware after this clip. [6]
Ware joined CNN in June 2006 and quickly established himself as one of the foremost on air experts on Iraq, providing in-depth analysis and reports across all CNN networks. [2]
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.” [4]
He joined CNN in May 2006, after five years with sister-publication Time Magazine. [7]
“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. [4]
Let’s be honest? we’ve all wondered from time to time why anyone would be crazy enough to be a war correspondent covering a city as dangerous as Baghdad. [...] As the invasion of Iraq shaped up, he entered the country through the Kurdish north, hooking up with US Special Forces teams and Peshmerga militia forces to cover the front line battles. [3]
Ware “has spent the past several years covering war zones for Time Magazine as well as Australia’s Channel 7. [4]
In September 2004, while investigating reports that Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi ’s nascent “al-Qaeda in Iraq ” group was openly claiming control of the Haifa Street area of Baghdad, Ware was briefly held at gunpoint by terrorists loyal to Zarqawi who had pulled pins from live grenades and forced his car to stop. [7]
After watching/listening to other media pundits dutifully regurgitate Bush’s insistence that the surge is working, Ware’s honesty is breathtaking. [6]
Sources:
[1] Michael Ware | NewsBusters.org
[2] CNN Programs - Anchors/Reporters - Michael Ware
[3] Bio
[4] Michael Ware - SourceWatch
[5] Charlie Rose - Michael Ware
[6] Keeping Them Honest: Michael Ware on Bush’s Definition of an “Ordinary …
[7] Michael Ware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia