CBS correspondent Lara Logan reveals she was victim of sex attack while covering Egyp

That CBS reporter is one brave woman. It is terrible what happened to her at the hands of the mob in Egypt. I hope and pray she makes a speedy recovery from her horror.

CBS correspondent Lara Logan reveals she was victim of * attack while covering Egypt protests

CBS correspondent Lara Logan brutally assaulted in Egypt | Mail Online


By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:20 AM on 16th February 2011

• Newscaster was victim of 'sustained sexual assault' during protests
• She had been detained and interrogated overnight in Cairo just a week before the attack
• In interviews before the incident she speaks of her need to return to the country

CBS correspondent Lara Logan was seriously assaulted while covering the Egyptian protests and is still recovering in hospital, it emerged today.
The newscaster was the victim of a 'sustained sexual assault' and had to be saved by a group of women and 20 soldiers, CBS said.
The alleged attack comes just a week after Ms Logan and her crew were detained overnight in Cairo before being interrogated and deported back to New York, it emerged tonight.


Attack: CBS News correspondent Lara Logan pictured shortly before she was assaulted in Tahrir Square while she was reporting on the Egyptian protests. There is no suggestion any of the men pictured were responsible for the attack

In the latest incident the mother-of-one had been reporting in Tahrir Square, Cairo, on February 11 - the day President Mubarak stepped down - when she was separated from her crew and surrounded by a mob of 200 people.
CBS issued a statement today, saying: 'On 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.

Assault: The married mother-of-one was attacked after she became surrounded by a mob and was separated from her TV crew

'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.'
They added: 'There will be no further comment from CBS News and Correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.'
Just a day before the alleged attack, as she was boarding the plane to Cairo, Ms Logan, told Esquire.com about being detained and interrogated a week earlier.

'We were not attacked by crazy people in Tahrir Square,' she said. We were detained by the Egyptian army.

'Arrested, detained, and interrogated. Blindfolded, handcuffed, taken at gunpoint, our driver beaten. It's the regime that arrested us.'

"We were accused of being Israeli spies. We were accused of being agents. We were accused of everything.'
The CBS correspondent also said she had been 'violently, violently ill' for a few days before and had to beg her captors for an IV drip in order to rehydrate herself.

Despite the traumatic experience Ms Logan said she still felt compelled to return to the country.

'Part of me feels like it's really insane, but the other part of me made a very considered, rational decision with my teammates,' she told Esquire.com.

She reiterated the sentiments on the Charlie Rose show last Monday saying: 'It's very hard for me to be away from this story,' she said. 'I feel, in one sense, like a failure professionally.

'I feel like I failed because I didn't deliver, and I take that responsibility very seriously.

'Fundamentally it's in my blood to be there and to be on the street and listening to people and to do the best reporting that I can.'
She acknowledged that she had 'put my family through a difficult situation' but said she felt worse for the Egyptians left behind in the interrogation cells.
She also revealed to Esquire.com that the team were not travelling with private security on the trip when the alleged attack took place, but had alerted the Egyptian embassy in the U.S.
'There are no surprises here this time,' she has said. 'It is a better plan. Again, it's not foolproof, you know?'

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Covert: Miss Logan files a news report from her hotel room in Egypt after she claimed the press was being prevented from reporting on the streets


Crowd: The scene in Tahrir Square minutes after the resignation of President Mubarak - and shortly before Miss Logan was attacked. She was saved by a group of women and 20 Egyptian soldiers

South Africa-born Logan is married with a two-year-old son.
The 39-year-old is an experienced war reporter and was the only journalist from a U.S. network in Baghdad when American troops invaded the city, and reported live from Firdos Square as the statue of Saddam Hussein was brought down.
The chief foreign correspondent had also reported extensively from the frontlines of Afghanistan.

Brave: Miss Logan reporting from South Africa in 2002 for British morning news programme GMTV. She is now chief foreign correspondent for CBS News

Mob: CNN's Anderson Cooper was filmed by his crew as they were attacked by pro-Mubarak supporters in Egypt. He left the country shortly afterwards

Logan, who had previously worked for Britain's morning news programme GMTV, is one of at least 140 correspondents who have been injured or killed since January 30 while covering the unrest in Egypt, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Prior to Mubarak stepping down, the Egyptian military had been rounding up members of the press for their own safety after several were stabbed, punched, kicked, marched back to their hotel by gunpoint or hijacked in their cars.
Pro-Mubarak supporters had blamed the press for encouraging the uprising and publishing pro-democracy views.
CNN's star reporter Anderson Cooper was pulled out of Egypt ten days ago after he was physically assaulted.

Married couple: Miss Logan, pictured when she was pregnant, with her husband Joseph Burkett, whom she met while they were both working in Iraq

Cooper described how he was 'roughed up by thugs' and hit in the back of the head in the pro-Mubarak crowd, calling it 'pandemonium' and 'out of control'.
ABC's Katie Couric and Christiane Amanpour were also physically attacked.
Miss Couric was said to have been manhandled in the city while Miss Amanpour's car was surrounded by rioters shouting they hated America, though she escaped unhurt.
A Greek photographer was stabbed in the leg, while the BBC's Jerome Boehm was also targeted by thugs.
Reuters said one of its television crews were beaten up close to Tahrir Square while filming a piece about shops and banks being forced to shut during the clashes.

Miss Logan was previously married to professional basketball player Jason Siemon, whom she wed in 1998. The pair separated while she was in Iraq.
In 2007, about two years after her separation, she began a short-lived relationship with CNN correspondent Michael Ware, after which she began dating Joseph Burkett.

She met Mr Burkett in Iraq, where he worked as a U.S. defence contractor.
Mr Burkett also has a daughter with his ex-wife Kimberly, to whom he was still legally married when he met Logan , although they had been separated for years.
Miss Logan, who modelled swimwear while she was at college, became tabloid fodder in early 2008 when Kimberly overdosed on tranquilisers after her husband filed for divorce.

She recovered and her lawyer told the National Enquirer that 'Kimberly believes Lara stole her husband'.

Miss Logan and Mr Burkett married in autumn 2008 and in December 2008 Miss Logan gave birth to son Joseph Washington Burkett V.

 

And were was the camera crew? and all the other guys?

 

They all got separated. Shows that the country still has a long way to go. What's the point of winning your freedom if this is how you use it?

 

so it was the pro mubarak protesters that did it?

hope she recovers well

 

Doubt it's anything to do with freedom. Can happen anywhere.

 

you stick your head into lions mouth, don't be surprised if you get bitten. not saying it's right what happened but anybody could have predicted that was likely to happen. too many people taking actions based on how they feel things should be instead of how things actually are.

 

I know but my point was more a moral question for the people who did it. If you're repressed maybe you take that out on someone. But for these people who want to live in a free society, they are really the height of hypocrisy if they think this is in anyway alright.

 

there are scum in all societies and the fact is that the entire country was in a state of anarchy at that moment. that said, the egyptians are obsessed with blondes. so again, you could have predicted this would happen

 

Egyptian men are notoriously aggressive towards women even foriegn women even under Mubarak, when I was living in Cairo even about 13 years ago I remember that the Museum my mom was working for would have hire egyptian soldiers on leave to rough up any men who came near the women working at the dig sites or museum itself.

 

This is bullshit i think wonder where all the camera people were? etc BULLSHIT!

 

you might be surprised but i agree 100%

 

aye it's bullshit, she's probably making it up for attention!

Here's a novel idea, you could actually try reading what the article says? It explains there was a massive mob and she got seperated in the crush.

 

perfect excuse anyway, we got separated, why the * are the brit media over there anyway * her and her corespondents. Dont believe this for a second.

 

What are you on pal, she was covering a massive news story, why shouldn't she be there? Would you rather not know what's going on in any part of the world other than the town you live in?

And for the record she's south african, and cbs is an american network, it's nothign to do with the brit media, not that it would matter if she was.

 

Well CBS are american not British and the media go over to report breaking news stories! Would be a fairly blind world without them! Why would she make it up she was in hospital for days and was beaten up?????

 

Hardly surprising, from what I've heard some of the men are utter filth out there. Sleazy to the extreme.

 

Apparently there was 200 of them and there was nothing her minders could do. Absolutely horrific what's happened to the girl. A lot of these countries have no respect for women. It's a big risk you take going to a place like that. If they are bad enough to be as violent as they were then doing something like that will not make a difference to them. Total scum. Just such a shame she will now have to live with this for the rest of her life.

 

fair enough there american, why the * are they even over there anyway same old americans cant keep there noses out. If you believe without america it would be fairly blind then...... cool story bro!

I believe shes made it up for media attention and in hospital for days but she made a report before she went home? hmmmm porky's like!

Imho i think this is just racial intent towards Egyptian men imho.

 

No I did not say that! I believe that without Journalists going into dangerous situations like this then we would not have a good understanding of events! Journalists off all nationalities report on major events, its not like an invading army, they were not looking to change the course of events merely report events! I am confused by your argument that British and American reporters should not stick their oar in.... are Irish reporters allowed to report on things though?



Furthermore do you have any evidence that she has made up this story? Or have you just decided that this woman made up a rape story for * and giggles? She is a respected journalist and perhaps the delay in the story breaking is because she did not want the story to come out?? Maybe she felt it would undermine her as a reporter.. she would now be that one that got assaulted in Egypt?

There is a lot of evidence to show that mob behaviour can cause relatively decent people to act in different ways, 200 men would be classed as a mob and I doubt that a few camera men could challenge 200 rioters do you?

 

You are very mis-informed, If it wasnt for the media being over there the Egyptian people would not have gotten rid of mubarak, your are so biased that anytime you see a chance to critisize america you jump at it. There are pictures in all the newspapers here from here attack and eyewitnesses there say she was attacked. There is no proof saying she wasnt attacked yet since she works for an American company she must be another stupid lying american, despite the fact that she is from South Africa