Michael Ware Quotations

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

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

This video is straight from the mujahedeen. This is the Blackwater killings. They talk about planning it. I can't believe this.

This is clearly a military map of some sort,

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.

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.

The question is whether the knife was exposed or the actual clip of the knife, whereas you'd have a debate as the whether it was even considered a concealed weapon.

They've been filming this stuff from the beginning.

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.

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