Reporter gets inside look at insurgency -CNN-

[Chicago Democrat]

Reporter gets inside look at insurgency
Attack videos put journalist at personal, professional risk
From Brent Sadler
CNN
Wednesday, July 7, 2004 Posted: 12:52 PM EDT (1652 GMT)

TIME reporter Michael Ware has become a go-between for militants in Iraq and the media.


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Islamic insurgent groups in Iraq are taking an unexpected step to give an inside view of their terror attacks on Westerners by sharing video not only of the assaults, but also of the planning behind them.

"This video is straight from the mujahedeen," journalist Michael Ware said as he viewed the tape at a hotel in Baghdad. "This is the Blackwater killings. They talk about planning it. I can't believe this."

Ware, an Australian reporter working for TIME magazine, is walking a professional knife-edge, an unlikely go-between for anti-Western militants and the media.

"They've been filming this stuff from the beginning," Ware said as he watched what purports to be the attack that killed four employees of Blackwater Security Consulting in Fallujah in late March.

Rest at....

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/06/iraq.insurgent.videos/index.html

[Chicago Democrat]

1. Wow almost like real journalism on CNN?! Oh, he works for TIME...

Of course! CNN doesn't do journalism...

[Barrett808]

2. This interview with Ware is worth checking out

Journalist spends time with Iraqi insurgents
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT
Broadcast: 01/07/2004
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2004/s1145069.htm

[Barrett808]

3. kick