Michael Ware
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"Michael Ware" is an Australian journalist formerly with CNN and was for several years based in their Baghdad bureau. He joined CNN in May 2006, after five years with sister publication Time (magazine)/Time. His last on-air appearance for the network was in December 2009.

He was one of the few mainstream reporters to live in Iraq near-continuously since before the American invasion and gained early acclaim due to his willingness to establish contacts with the Kurdistan/Kurdish Peshmerga and the Iraqi insurgency. He reported on the severity of the growing opposition Western coalition forces faced in mid-2003, and his contacts have provided him with controversial videotapes of attacks on coalition forces, including the murder of four Blackwater USA/Blackwater contractors.

Ware has been 'Embedded journalist/embedded' with American and British military forces on numerous occasions, and the coalition forces have been the focus of many of his reports as he continues to describe conditions for the military and civilians in Iraq.

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This is far more serious, organized, committed, than many of us realized.

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Something in the last few months has got them filming the most intimate, graphic attacks -- like up-close and personal.

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Giving some poor fellow three days to live -- that made me a participant. I made it very clear after that: I want nothing more to do with any hostage tapes. Any that you give me will not see the light of day.

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We are seen as legitimate targets, as part of the problem rather than the solution, according to the insurgents.

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This was a military organization run on military lines -- the very, very thing that at the time the American military was telling us did not exist. And it was access to this group that told me that this war was going to be a long and very ugly one.

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This is clearly a military map of some sort.

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They have reached a level of organization and sophistication that we have not seen previously. They have become incredibly savvy.

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They've been filming this stuff from the beginning.

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It's like they are embedding combat camera units, who are there on the front line with them, knowing they are going to have propaganda value in time to come.

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