Gen McChrystal's speech to IISS 1 Oct 2009 - any complete audio/transcript available?

[deeceethree]

Does anyone know where there is a full transcript or audio file available of the speech that General Stanley McChrystal gave to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London last Thusday 1st October 2009? This concerned his assessment of the situation in Afghanistan, and it seems to have attracted a 'negative' reaction (bollocking) from his Commander-In-Chump, Barack Obama:

Barack Obama angry at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6259582/Barack-Obama-angry-at-General-Stanley-McChrystal-speech-on-Afghanistan.html)

I listened to the opening couple of minutes of the presentation, live, on BBC Radio 5 but the BBC managed to lose the transmission and only returned to it many minutes later, just as the General finished. The BBC Radio 5 on-line archive of the event is, unfortunately, the truncated event that was going out on the Victoria Derbyshire show on Thursday. I was impressed with General McChrystal's opening remarks and would really like to find a complete audio or transcript (preferably the former) file. Can anyone help? Please?

[mick2088]

You could try the IISS website www.iiss.org, if it worked that is instead of displaying "Server Error in '/EasySiteWeb' Application."

[deeceethree]

Mick,

Precisely the problem I had earlier, hence my request here! :ok:

[mick2088]

The whole website is down, so I guess it will be back up by tomorrow. Cached version as a stream: http://www.iiss.org/EasySiteWeb/media/McChrystalspeech.wmv

Seems to work, although I only watched one minute of some chap talking about future IISS events.

The Q&A (including a certain Flt Lt) link:

General Stanley McChrystal: the Q&A Session | Fitaloon at MicroShaft (http://diack.co.uk/fitaloon/2009/10/general-stanley-mcchrystal-the-qa-session/)

I haven't tried that one to see whether it works.

[deeceethree]

Mick, thanks for the links! Am downloading the wmv file as I write, using a neat bit of software, as the website itself seems to still be u/s. :)

EDIT: For anyone interested, the IISS website seems to be up and running again. The 2 links in the post above are available, as is a PDF transcript of General McChrystal's speech:
International Institute for Strategic Studies General Stanley McChrystal Address (http://www.iiss.org/recent-key-addresses/general-stanley-mcchrystal-address/)