Lara Logan suffered 'brutal' attack in Egypt

[A1Kaid]

Lara Logan of CBS News, pictured in Cairo's Tahrir Square shortly before she was attacked on February 11. Photograph: Reuters
Richard Adams
guardian.co.uk, Wed 16 Feb 2011 03.23 GMT


CBS News journalist Lara Logan is recovering in hospital this week after being violently attacked and sexually assaulted by a mob in Egypt's Tahrir Square on Friday, according to a statement by CBS.


Amid the celebrations on the night of Hosni Mubarak's resignation, Logan was reporting on the scenes in Tahrir Square for the news programme 60 Minutes when the South African-born journalist, her camera crew and security staff were overwhelmed by what the US television network described as "a dangerous element ... 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," CBS said in its statement released on Tuesday evening.


"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."


Logan joined CBS in 2002, after a television news career that included a spell at GMTV covering the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, and is a veteran of reporting from warzones including Iraq and Kosovo.
CBS's chief foreign affairs correspondent, Logan had previously been detained by the Egyptian military for a day, as part of the Mubarak regime's crackdown on foreign journalists.
Logan serves on the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists, which documented 140 attacks on journalists in Egypt during the protests this month.


"We have seen Lara's compassion at work while helping journalists who have faced brutal aggression while doing their jobs. She is a brilliant, courageous and committed reporter. Our thoughts are with Lara as she recovers," said Paul Steiger, chairman of the committee.
CBS said it will make no further comment. "Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time," the network said in its statement.

Source: http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/16/lara-logan-cbs-egypt-tahrir?cat=world&type=article


I'm very disappointed and disgusted by this. Those Egyptian mobs responsible for this are savage. Much tougher language can easily be used here...

Those people did it because Lara is a blue eyed blonde beauty something those desperate perverts don't see often in person not to mention their own despicable nature. It's important to note many other reporters have been attached while reporting the event in Egypt.


I know most of you will join me in sending our best wishes and condolences to Lara Logan and her family, get well soon!

 

[A1Kaid]

This event and many others also highlights how women journalist are treated differently compared to men journalist.


Andersoon Cooper seemed just fine in Egypt, who knows may be his security was tighter ehh.

 

[ajtr]

identify the people in mob and give them to firing squad.

 

[Roybot]

scum. I have a bad feeling about this revolution in Egypt.

 

[indianpatriot]

not serious but rather funny incidences

 

[Dalai Lama]

^^^

The last one was the funniest!

 

[Jigs]

This event and many others also highlights how women journalist are treated differently compared to men journalist.


Andersoon Cooper seemed just fine in Egypt, who knows may be his security was tighter ehh.

 

[Developereo]

Don't know about Lara Logan, but Andersen Cooper claims he was attacked by pro-Mubarak thugs.
Also, most of the museum looting was blamed on pro-Mubarak thugs.

 

[Cloakedvessel]

scum. I have a bad feeling about this revolution in Egypt.

This has nothing to do with the uprising. Treatment of women was just as bad in Egypt prior to the revolution. In Egypt it doesn't matter if you're white or dark, veiled or unveiled, foreign or Egyptian, you as woman will get harassed at some point.

Add the fact that dictator Mubarak set thousands of hardcore criminals, rapist and murderers free in an attempt to plunge the country into further chaos.

 

[Aramsogo]

She is a reporter on the most prestigious news show "60 Minutes". She is also famous for being one of the most beautiful journalists in America. She was in a sex scandal in Afghanistan with a married man 2 or 3 years ago. Now she gets sexually assaulted in Egypt. I feel sorry for her. Her beauty makes her job much harder.

 

[below_freezing]

Egypt descends into chaos. Now they are a military dictatorship. What will Egypt's future hold? It's a country with a huge and exploding population, low GDP/capita, no rule of law, no education, no technology of its own, no government as of now, only a bit of oil and Suez canal, imports 80% of its food and has a history of Islamic fundamentalism.

Will it turn into the next Zimbabwe?

 

[cross1993]

How about FC-1 contract? Does Egypt will change plans, cancel the contract?

 

[below_freezing]

No idea, the military government may still go through with it.

Sigh, maybe we lost this customer. Should sell to Iran, who care about USA, they sell to South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

 

[cross1993]

No idea, the military government may still go through with it.

Sigh, maybe we lost this customer. Should sell to Iran, who care about USA, they sell to South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

Maybe should wait some time. If the USA to sell F-16C/D to Taiwan, then China can sells fighter jets to Iran.

 

[Roybot]

Guys is talking about FC-1 necessary in this thread? Surely there are other Egypt related threads?