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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'', which will be published by Hachette and Random House. 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." ==Life and career== Michael Ware is a native of Brisbane (Queensland), Australia. He is a graduate of Brisbane Grammar School, and he earned a Bachelor of Laws and a degree in Political Science from the University of Queensland. He spent a year as Associate to then-President of the Supreme Court of Queensland Tony Fitzgerald before moving into journalism. He worked for ''The Courier-Mail'' in Brisbane (1995–2000) and gained local notice after a series of articles led to a formal investigation into police handling (or lack thereof) of a pedophile ring. Ware declined to name sources who had provided him with internal police documents in the matter. His earliest assignments for ''Time'' magazine took him to East Timor in 2000; and, in December 2001, he went into Afghanistan to cover the U.S. search for al-Qaeda. As preparations for the invasion of Iraq began in early 2003, Ware relocated to the Kurdistan area. Although he has gone into battles embedded with U.S. forces, he also traveled to insurgent camps and reported on their perspective of the war. His ''Time'' bylines include reports from Kabul, Kandahar, Fallujah, Tikrit, Tal Afar, Mosul, Samarra, Ramadi, and Baghdad. 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 fighters loyal to Zarqawi who had pulled pins from live grenades and forced his car to stop. The men dragged him from the car and stood him beneath one of the banners, intending to film his execution with his own video camera. By threatening them with immediate and violent retaliation, his local guides, including members of the Ba'ath Party, were able to win his release. Ware has stated that, had this happened only a few months later, when Zarqawi's group had grown stronger, he would have been killed. In October 2004, he was named ''Time'' magazine's Baghdad Bureau Chief. He was embedded for the September 2005 assault on Tal Afar, and his harrowing video of the battle has been included in a ''Frontline'' documentary and a ''60 Minutes'' report. When with CNN, he was partnered with Thomas Evans, who produced for Anderson Cooper. Additional career information: * August 2006, 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.〔(Michael Ware website, July 2006 archive ) Retrieved 27 April 2015〕 * October 2007, covered the quadrennial Rugby World Cup for CNN Sports, reporting from Marseilles and Paris.〔(Michael Ware website, October 2007 Archive ) Retrieved 27 April 2015〕 * February 2008, covered the parliamentary elections in Pakistan for CNN and hosted ''Pakistan's Vital Vote''.〔(Pakistan's Vital Vote Saturday, 16 February 2008 Michael Ware website ) Retrieved 27 April 2015〕 * April 2008, hosted 30-minute special for CNN, ''Iraq: Inside the Surge''.〔(Iraq: Inside the Surge Monday, 7 April 2008 Michael Ware website ) Retrieved 27 April 2015〕 * August 2008, covered the South Ossetia War between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Georgia, reporting at various times from the towns of Tbilisi, Gori, and Poti.〔(August 2008 Archive, Michael Ware website ) Retrieved 27 April 2015〕 * Beginning in early 2009, began covering the Mexican drug cartels, reporting from Juárez and Mexico City.〔(February 2009 Archive, Michael Ware website Michael Ware website ) Retrieved 27 April 2015〕 * In May 2010, began a one-year leave of absence from CNN to be treated for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).〔(…and Hello Again! Friday, 30 April 2010 Michael Ware website ) Retrieved 27 April 2015〕 * In September 2010, the program ''Australian Story'' on the ABC network in Australia ran a two-part special on Ware's career.〔(Prisoner Of War Part One – Transcript 13 September 2010 ) Australian Story Retrieved 27 April 2015〕〔(Prisoner Of War Part Two – Transcript 20 September 2010 ) Australian Story Retrieved 27 April 2015〕〔Dennehy, Kate (My report was too hot to broadcast: Brisbane war correspondent 19 September 2010 ) Retrieved 27 April 2015〕 * In April 2011, added to the list of contributors to ''The Daily Beast''〔(Michael Ware ) The Daily Beast Retrieved 27 April 2011〕 and also wrote a column for ''Newsweek''.〔(Michael Ware on the Pain of War Reporting 24 April 2011 ) ''Newsweek'' Retrieved 27 April 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Ware」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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