And for me, that story was akin to the Heart of Darkness. But also, in our highest ambition, it could also be seen as part of the conversation about the nature of us as human beings because in the end, we all have the light and the dark within us. You know it when you see what it is that our boys in uniform have to go through, the dark place they have to get to in order to fight and survive; when you see what it is that the Iraqis have to endure, the dark choices that some of these people that we now call the Islamic State have made -- I think all of that more broadly reflects upon the human condition.
One of the most important tenets of journalism is that there are always two sides to a story. That was all done sitting in their homes, or sitting in their villages, drinking tea, with their children running about. It was relationship by relationship, trust by trust. Well certainly for the soldiers, they often—and by necessity—have a one-dimensional view of the other people they are fighting. Yet, even as time went by, even the U. I think everyone in uniform could understand that.
What was entirely different was the arrival of what we now call the Islamic State. There were at least four wars. There was the American war against the insurgents, fighting to free their country from what they saw as a foreign occupier. Then there was a holy war with the people we now call the Islamic State.
A brazen type with a poetic streak, the reporter embedded himself with U. He was the rare reporter trusted by multiple sides, and put himself in grave danger even by the standards of wartime journalists. He explained battlefield situations in which he turned away from a Marine on one side of him to talk to another, and then turned back to find the first had been killed in the interim.
Why if you turn left you die and if you turn right you lived? Ware, 46, had a low-budget hand-held camera from pretty much the moment he arrived in Iraq for Time, and soon after began shooting footage wherever he went.
He had no intention of making a film, but when he began sifting through them several years ago to jog his memory for an as-yet-unwritten book, he thought there might be a cinematic story to tell. Ware soon became a trusted emissary for Abu Musab Zarqawi, the infamous late leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq who turns into a Kurtzian obsession for the reporter. Zarqawi would stage and then film beheadings and suicide attacks on Westerners, and when he wanted the world to see his handiwork, he would often deliver footage to Ware.
The journalist, for instance, was given a DVD of the beheading of the American radio-tower operator Nicholas Berg, a snippet of which is shown here in a brief but highly discomfiting moment. CNN came under fire, particularly by the right, for furthering extremist aims in showing footage of this sort, including U. In one scene, narrated in the film, Ware himself was stopped on a road in Baghdad and threatened with death by Al Qaeda in Iraq militants.
Ware left Iraq for good around and, after other reporting stints around the world, left CNN, too, shortly after that. The grind, among other things, became too much, he said. He now hopes to tell stories in a more Hollywood context via documentaries and dramatized versions of military stories, he said. It has not been an easy adjustment. T20 live: Pakistan set Australia big target to make World Cup final. Captured fugitive Mostafa Baluch arrives back in Sydney in shackles.
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