CBS's Lara Logan Assaulted, Hospitalized

[SeattleGirl]

(CBSNews)

On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a "60 Minutes" story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy.

In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. She is currently in the hospital recovering.

There will be no further comment from CBS News and correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.

Link: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archive...028016.php

This completely sickens me, not because it's Lara Logan, but because it happened. My best to Ms. Logan in recovering from this (though how much she will recover emotionally is anybody's guess).

[RoyGBiv]

She was gang raped.

I can't even imagine the horror of such a thing. She won't fully recover from that I suspect, at least not emotionally.

The only fortunate thing for her, I suspect, is that this was Egypt where the women were capable of intervening without being guaranteed of facing brutal reprisals for daring to subvert the will of a group of men.

[atomic]

Good gawd that is appalling. I wish her a peaceful recovery. I'd have a tough time reconciling the beauty of liberation with that horrible act of violence.

Egyptian women came to her aid. Solidarity, sisters in peace.

[Cha]

What a traumatic horror she went through..I'm so sorry this had to happen to her. There are stupid asshole everywhere and I'm not equating Lara Logan's attack with the attack on the demonstrator who was kicked to the curb by Rand Paul Supporters and kicked in the head but it's crossing my mind to wonder if the new teabagger pundit that Cnn hired, Dana Loesch, who said "the woman should apologize"..thinks Lara Logan should do the same?

Where is the line drawn for Dana Loesch?

[Hekate]

Oh God, I'm so sorry. To be covering such a grand moment in history and have it end in gang rape and beating -- the special danger of female war correspondents.

I wish her all the best in her recovery -- she and her family will need extra courage and support.

[nofurylike]

[jaxx]

Absolutely brutal. I feel so sorry for her, she will have a lifetime to try to get over the rapes and the beatings. A terrible thing to happen to any woman.

[Born_A_Truman]

This is horrific! I read about this yesterday and it made me physically sick. I hope they can identify and prosecute the people responsible.

[SeattleGirl]

and is at home with her husband and children.

Obama calls CBS reporter assaulted in Cairo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday telephoned CBS News correspondent Lara Logan, who is recovering from a brutal sexual assault last week in Egypt, a White House official said.

Logan, a 39-year-old South Africa native and longtime war correspondent, has been released from a hospital and is recovering at her home in Washington with her husband and two young children.

She was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob while covering the jubilation in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS said on Tuesday.

The White House official confirmed Obama had called her but gave no details.

Logan made her name as a war correspondent for Britain's GMTV during the start of the U.S.-led Afghanistan war in 2001 and subsequently reported on the war in Iraq and its violent aftermath. She joined CBS News in 2002.

Link: http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-pol...onesLogan/

I hope she has a lot of support from her family.

[Cha]

(02-16-2011 10:44 PM)Punky Wrote:  and is at home with her husband and children.

Obama calls CBS reporter assaulted in Cairo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday telephoned CBS News correspondent Lara Logan, who is recovering from a brutal sexual assault last week in Egypt, a White House official said.

Logan, a 39-year-old South Africa native and longtime war correspondent, has been released from a hospital and is recovering at her home in Washington with her husband and two young children.

She was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob while covering the jubilation in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS said on Tuesday.

The White House official confirmed Obama had called her but gave no details.

Logan made her name as a war correspondent for Britain's GMTV during the start of the U.S.-led Afghanistan war in 2001 and subsequently reported on the war in Iraq and its violent aftermath. She joined CBS News in 2002.

Link: http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-pol...onesLogan/

I hope she has a lot of support from her family.

Thanks for the update, Punky..here's to all the love surrounding her that she needs to recover from this and get on with her life.

[SeattleGirl]

(02-16-2011 10:48 PM)Cha Wrote:  Thanks for the update, Punky..here's to all the love surrounding her that she needs to recover from this and get on with her life.

Amen to that, Cha.

[Treestar]

Anderson Cooper was attacked too. A dangerous place to be for a journalist.

No revolution is entirely glorious - the merely violent can take advantage of it.

[There Is No Spoon]

This is an awful story - I had no idea how badly she was assaulted when I watched Lawrence O'Donnell describe how some right-wing bloggers were going on about how she "deserved" it. Sometimes our adversaries are more than just stupid, they give up their humanity over some ridiculous political game - ass holes.