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CBS News' Lara Logan Sexually Assaulted During Egypt Protests
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Posted on 02/15/2011 1:23:29 PM PST by MindBender26

Edited on 02/15/2011 7:34:17 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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 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.

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Knew something was going on when she was not on air from here in US after returning to CONUS.

This rumor has been working for a few days, and was all but confirmed by the lack of comment or denials from anyone at Black Rock or West 57th.

Some may say Logan has a checkered past, but nothing deserves this!

When 3 CBS engineers were killed by a perp years ago, Rather went into a (well deserved) on-air outrage. This time, there will probably be nothing, because, Lord knows, we don’t want to upset the “Arab Street.” Source with many years in SWA says many Muslims will approve of this, because, it was an infidel getting what she deserved.

When will the rest of America wake up?


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0bamasfault; animals; burkett; cbsnews; egypt; islam; joeburkett; journalist; koranimals; laralogan; lauralogan; muslimrape; muslims; obamasfault; rop
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To: PapaBear3625
She looks good for 40. (Well, 37 in this particular picture)

A good plastic surgeon will do that for you.
221 posted on 02/15/2011 4:53:05 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: MindBender26

Reminds me of the ending of ‘Camp of the Saints’.


222 posted on 02/15/2011 4:53:24 PM PST by Crawdad
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To: metmom

The poor woman had to be terrified. I can’t imagine how frightened she was. She was in a place she never should have been sent to.

I hope she can recover from all of this. But it will be a long road. The shame is on the media for sending people there.
Journalists are not exempt from violence. Sending her there was criminal on her employers part. I bet that she had confidence in them that they wouldn’t send her to a place where such things could happen.


223 posted on 02/15/2011 4:54:30 PM PST by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: Munz

Yep, that’s right.

I don’t believe we’ve spoken before, nice to meet you.


224 posted on 02/15/2011 4:54:36 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: MindBender26
An American woman is gang raped in downtown Cairo.

The American response? Crickets. Nothing.

What would the American response be if a Muslim woman was ganged raped on the streets of Washington D.C.?

225 posted on 02/15/2011 4:56:02 PM PST by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: Lazamataz

That’s a woman whose dumb luck was far greater than her ability to calculate risk. She may have chosen the right guide but she chose entirely the wrong place to go. She was lucky _they_ decided she was worth neither the money nor the trouble.


226 posted on 02/15/2011 4:56:44 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: SteamShovel
Employers that put employees in dangerous situations without regard to their particular vulnerability and without adequete security should be finacialy liable for incidents of this type.

It's the business the've chosen [/Hyman Roth]

How many newscritters, for instance, scramble insanely into the path of hurricanes just to get their one shot at fame and fortune? IIRC more than one news career has been made (including Dan "Fake but Accurate" Rather) by just that sort of thing.
227 posted on 02/15/2011 4:58:17 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: metmom

“Her background is irrelevant and is no reason to imply that she is responsible for it or that it didn’t happen.”

I would disagree with that, she most definitely is responsible for what happened to her. What she did was the equivalent of walking naked down the street in the bad part of town where the gang bangers hang out. She set herself up for this by dressing in western clothes and going to a location where a near riot was happening with thousands of Muslim men (who are known to do this type of thing).

Personally I think that she gets a thrill or adrenalin rush from going into these kinds of dangerous situations since she’s done it before and gotten away with it. In any case she is as responsible as the people that assaulted her in what happened to her.


228 posted on 02/15/2011 4:58:33 PM PST by trapped_in_LA
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To: Munz
...And all we hear from lSM is... Egypt had a peaceful protest...

PEACEFUL protest my a$$ looting and raping and beatings are NOT acts of peace!!

229 posted on 02/15/2011 4:58:33 PM PST by weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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To: Munz

Obama’s bootlickers are pathetic.


230 posted on 02/15/2011 4:58:41 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Gene Eric

>> Obama’s bootlickers are pathetic.

That comment is NOT about Lara Logan, but those piously enamored with every bowel movement taken by the One.


231 posted on 02/15/2011 5:01:02 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Munz

Amazing, I sent it out and posted it on my Facebook Page. Thank you very much.


232 posted on 02/15/2011 5:01:41 PM PST by seoul62
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Dear god,
people,
I am shocked by some of your comments,

This is horrible, i feel awful for this women, please think before you post, you are making the forum look bad,


233 posted on 02/15/2011 5:01:41 PM PST by Sophia777
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To: Lazamataz

>”I didn’t take foolish risks and I am an experienced journalist who knows how to avoid dangerous situations.”<

I bet that she thought she could get herself out of a situation. Plus the fact that her editor would never send her in a position that was so dangerous.

I also wonder how much of the MSM believe the White House when they talk about how good things are going. Can they be that stupid to believe Obama and his sycophants?


234 posted on 02/15/2011 5:03:21 PM PST by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
“Sexual assault is not even mentioned”

Wrong.

I don't know how you can get plainer than

“She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault...”

235 posted on 02/15/2011 5:05:56 PM PST by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: Sophia777

You any relation to jamese777 or james777? .....You know, the guy who hates “birthers”, conservatives and Americans and loves to make us look bad.


236 posted on 02/15/2011 5:08:40 PM PST by CanaGuy (Go Harper! We still love you!)
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To: metmom

We ask parents to sacrifice young ladies on the battlefield to bring some form of freedom to people that have no respect for women, Christians, Americans, Indians, Buddhists, Hindus, Italians, French, Spanish, Blacks, American Indians or Jews. ANYONE NOT a Muslim....a Semitical Muslim at that. I don’t know if they even like Indonesian Muslims. Seriously, we should have nuked Mecca and Medina in 2001. Take out their “god” and his happy places, watch the philosophy dissolve, like Nazism before it.


237 posted on 02/15/2011 5:13:56 PM PST by runninglips (government debt = slavery of the masses)
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To: Munz

There seems to be a delusion among some journalists that simply *being* a journalist somehow makes them immune to things like bullets and angry mobs. The MFM was so shocked when Cooper and Amanpour and Polkit and now Logan got beaten up by the mobs in Egypt. Well...they’re MOBS. Large numbers of people whipped into a frenzy do strange and unpredictable things. Sometimes, if they’re Muslims, they see a Western face and decide they’re going to rearrange it. Or in this case, they decide they “want them some of that.” Pro-Mubarak, anti-Mubarak, doesn’t matter.

I’m actually quite surprised this happened. Logan is a veteran reporter, she’s been in and out of the sandbox for over five years. She’s been there, done that, and I’m kind of shocked that her danger sense didn’t tell her that a good-looking, blonde, obviously Western female shouldn’t be wandering around in a group of thousands of hyped-up Muslims. That doesn’t justify her being raped, of course—NO woman ever “has it coming,” that’s just asinine—but wow, maybe keep a headscarf handy and throw it on after you get off-camera in the hopes of lowering your profile? Keep some security around? Stick to an area where you can get out if things go sideways?

The saddest part is that she’ll never get justice. In a mob that large, there’s no way the Egyptian authorities will ever be able to identify the perps. Hopefully the soldiers that rescued her kicked some ass when they pulled the guys away from her, but that’s about the best that could come of it.

}:-)4


238 posted on 02/15/2011 5:14:07 PM PST by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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To: Munz
That was an awesome can of whoop ass he gave Mica. Thanks for sharing.
239 posted on 02/15/2011 5:14:46 PM PST by Shqipo (I am the unofficial originator of the Mega-Bump! Only use judiciously.)
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To: RedwM

Sadly, they would have done the same thing to her and then lopped her head off.


240 posted on 02/15/2011 5:16:49 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (Where is our military?)
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