Michael Ware

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Michael Ware (born 25 March 1969) 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.

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 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 contractors.

Ware has been embedded with American and British military forces on numerous occasions, and the coalition forces have been the focus of many of his reports describing conditions in Iraq. As of 2015 he is working on a book about the Iraq war, titled Between Me and the Dead.

The title comes from a conversation he had with a friend in the Marines; when asked how he deals with civilians asking how many people he's killed, the Marine said he replies, "That's between me and the dead."

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Life and career

Michael Ware is a native of Brisbane (Queensland), Australia. He is a graduate of Brisbane Grammar School and earned a Bachelor of Laws and a degree in Political Science from the University of Queensland. Before transferring to journalism, he spent a year as Associate to then-President of the Supreme Court of Queensland Tony Fitzgerald. He worked with The Courier-Mail in Brisbane (1995–2000), receiving local notice after a series of articles led to a formal investigation into police handling (or lack thereof) of a paedophile ring. Ware declined to reveal to whom he had obtained internal police information in the investigation.

He was sent by Time magazine in 2000 to East Timor, and in December 2001, he went into Afghanistan to cover the US search for al-Qaeda. Ware was relocated to the Kurdistan area as war preparations for the invasion of Iraq began in early 2003. Despite being embedded with US forces, he has also traveled to rebel camps and wrote about their view of the conflict. His Time bylines include news from Kabul, Kandahar, Fallujah, Tikrit, Tal Afar, Mosul, Ramadi, and Baghdad.

When investigating evidence that Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's nascent "al-Qaeda in Iraq" group was openly claiming ownership of Baghdad's Haifa Street neighborhood, the ware was briefly held at gunpoint by fighters loyal to Zarqawi who had removed pins from live grenades and coerced his vehicle to stop. The guys dragged him from the car and stood him under one of the banners, ostensibly filming his execution with his own video camera. His local guides, which included members of the Ba'ath Party, were able to secure his release by threatening them with immediate and violent retaliation. Ware has stated that if this happened just a few months later, when Zarqawi's army had grown stronger, he would have been killed.

He was appointed Head of Time magazine's Baghdad Bureau in October 2004. He was embedded in the downpouring of Tal Afar in September 2005, and his harrowing video of the assault has been included in a Frontline documentary and a 60 Minutes study. He was partnered with Thomas Evans, who produced for Anderson Cooper when he appeared on CNN.

He spent three weeks in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley as part of CNN's team covering the Israeli invasion of Lebanon before returning to Iraq.

He covered the quadrennial Rugby World Cup for CNN Sports in October 2007, reporting from Marseilles and Paris.

He covered the parliamentary elections in Pakistan for CNN and hosted Pakistan's Vital Vote in February 2008.

He hosted a 30-minute special for CNN and Iraq in April 2008.

He covered the South Ossetia War, between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Georgia, in August 2008, reporting from various towns of Tbilisi, Gori, and Poti.

He started reporting from Juárez and Mexico City in early 2009.

In May 2010, he began a one-year absence from television to be treated for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Ware's career was chronicled in the ABC network in Australia in September 2010.

He was added to The Daily Beast's list of contributors in April 2011 and also wrote a column for Newsweek.

Ware announced in February 2011 that he would not be returning to CNN in February. He later told an Australian newspaper that he had founded Penance Films and recently completed Only the Dead, a documentary about his time in Iraq, which was released in 2015.

The Ware's film was on view at the Sydney Writers' Festival, where it received the Documentary Australia Foundation Award. The film also received the Walkley Documentary Award.

CNN aired a small portion of a videotape sent to Ware on October 18th, 2006, which featured snipers firing at, and apparently killing, American troops. Ware's narration for the edited broadcast that showed American soldiers being stalked and then shot by the gunmen ended, and the soldiers were eventually taken under fire by the gunmen. After the news coverage was revealed, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow accused CNN of "propagandizing" the American people. Following the airing of the news article, House Armed Services Committee Chair Duncan Hunter ordered Donald Rumsfeld to delete CNN embedded reporters, claiming that "CNN has now served as the publicist for an enemy propaganda film involving the assassination of an American soldier."

He revealed in 2008 that while stationed in Diyala Province in 2007, he filmed the killing of a teenage Iraqi man, who he described as "a legitimate victim" by US troops. The gun did not initially kill the man, but no assistance was given during the estimated 20 minutes it took him to die. Ware told the tale how dehumanizing war is for military forces as well as journalists.

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