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Lara Logan Attacked, Sexually Assaulted In Egypt (CBS Reporter)
TV Newser ^ | Feb. 15, 2011 | Alex Werpin

Posted on 02/15/2011 1:25:48 PM PST by Beaten Valve

CBS News says that correspondent Lara Logan was attacked and sexually assaulted last Friday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square while filming a piece for “60 Minutes.”

From the CBS News statement:

On Friday February 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS 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 a 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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: burkett; cbs; cbsnews; egypt; islam; joeburkett; journalist; laralogan; muslims; religionofrape; rop
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To: Borges

CBS really knows how to protect their female reporters....send them tho dangerous places to get raped and beaten.... then CBS reports it all to the world with no regard for privacy concerns of the individual. Though she maybe liberal, but why broadcast her raping....this is
puzzling about liberals...


21 posted on 02/15/2011 1:36:09 PM PST by Bullfrogg (American by birth, Irish by heritage, and hellraiser by choice)
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To: Graybeard58
Yeah, n'though I don't know her politics or anything like that ... if she HAS been using words like, 'patriots' or 'conservatives' or 'protesters' or even 'democracy', when in fact it is all islamic noise to produce the coup de tat that was the desired result ... in preparation for the theocracy of islam ...

I would sincerely hope she has learned .. they're friggin' animals of a baser sort and a cancer to civilized society.

All they have going for them is a frenzied mob of sufficient numbers to produce a state of terror to the unprepared.

A gun, my dear, would have gone a long way to show those vermin what a real American woman of freedom and libeerty was all about.

Instead, she will tout the merits of other women instead of her self.

A speedy recovery and prayers for your well being and calmed spirit.

22 posted on 02/15/2011 1:36:17 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: Beaten Valve

My goodness, you took away my exact words.

“Democracy in action.”

This is what all these media folks have been working for.

And she was saved by the army, whom they all deplore.


23 posted on 02/15/2011 1:37:53 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Beaten Valve

Prayers for her recovery.


25 posted on 02/15/2011 1:38:59 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: Borges
I wonder if these losers in the press corps are starting to see what types of animals are living in these countries with all the attacks on them. Maybe their virulent defense of muslims will be tempered with reason in the future. These people are not civilized in the least and are not friends to even America hating journalists..


26 posted on 02/15/2011 1:40:49 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Beaten Valve; All
Hmmm...she has a history:

Lara Logan Sex Scandal: CBS' New Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent At Center of Divorce War: Report

27 posted on 02/15/2011 1:40:55 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Beaten Valve
I would also point out that, unlike NBC's Richard Engle (who's a little leftist b!tch), Logan is unapologetically supportive of the US fighting man. She has defending the surge in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and I've heard her say that without it, the countries would have devolved into absolute anarchy, and the women and Christians would have directly suffered because of it.

I'm sure Logan, even before this event, had no idealistic pretense about the "greatness" of Islam.

28 posted on 02/15/2011 1:41:26 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: Beaten Valve

Muslims/arabs consider women dirt.


29 posted on 02/15/2011 1:41:47 PM PST by Carley (ARAB STREET NO DIFFERENT THAN AMERICA'S LEFT)
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To: Beaten Valve

Isn’t she the ex-model/homewrecker who had men brawling over her in Baghdad? Yeah, she’s a wild one alright. Probably thought it was cute going into a crowd of known savages in revealing clothing who, no doubt, had read about her sexual exploits.


30 posted on 02/15/2011 1:41:47 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: sunmars

the female reporters and Anderson Cooper will be wearing burkas from now on....


31 posted on 02/15/2011 1:42:09 PM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: Beaten Valve

Another Obama victory.


32 posted on 02/15/2011 1:42:44 PM PST by exnavy (May the Lord grant our troops protection and endurance.)
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To: Beaten Valve

How many $$$ millions does this babe grab per annum?


33 posted on 02/15/2011 1:43:22 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Beaten Valve

prayers for her recovery

CBS bears some responsibility and of course the muslim thugs.

But who could not see this as a possibility given muslims attitudes toward women?


34 posted on 02/15/2011 1:43:47 PM PST by RWGinger
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To: Beaten Valve
I wonder how she feels about Obama's unions sending bus loads of goons to private residences to terrorize it's enemies?

35 posted on 02/15/2011 1:43:55 PM PST by I see my hands (You can know the young posters by the desperate optimism in their posts.)
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To: I cannot think of a name
This is about the best publicized “privacy” story I've ever seen!

WOW !

Did you ever hit the nail on the head!

ML/NJ

36 posted on 02/15/2011 1:45:03 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: Beaten Valve

Women who look like that are never safe in Muslim countries unless they are dressed in a burqua ... and then only if accompanied by their husband ... and hopefully another couple of dozen or so armed bodyguards

37 posted on 02/15/2011 1:45:11 PM PST by Zakeet (Always trust in the five G's: God, Gold, Guns, Grub, and the Government screwing up)
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To: Beaten Valve
She should be beaten and stoned to death for taunting poor Muslim men with her exposed skin!

Women are as cattle, and should be treated like the stupid pack animals that they are!

(hey, just stating the facts as Muslim men see it)

38 posted on 02/15/2011 1:45:27 PM PST by airborne (Why is it we won't allow the Bible in school, but we will in prison? Think about it.)
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To: Beaten Valve

This is a very sad thing. It’s horrible to see how our “PC” culture has made people so vulnerable to the animals that prowl the streets, here and in Cario.


39 posted on 02/15/2011 1:45:46 PM PST by RavenATB ("Destroy the family and you destroy the country!" ~Vladimir Lenin)
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To: DonaldC

In the days prior to this bad incident, western news crews with men or with women in the makeup of the crews were often roughed up. I think it was irresponsible for CBS and the other news organizations to keep sending in crews without some real security as this or a crew death was bound to happen. I am sad this young woman was so wrongly harmed.


40 posted on 02/15/2011 1:46:30 PM PST by RicocheT
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