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?
Right on. WTF? This happened Friday and they’re just telling us now in the era of reporters are also news.
>Those lovely, religious muslim men and their manners...you’re a slut to them.<
EXACTLY. Stupid liberal management at C-BS. I would give Logan points for graciously defending Bush years back but this was seriously an idiotic position. Surely she realized in her common sense she was in a country whose sole religion denigrates women as an inferior species?
Muzzies have such respect for women, dontcha know?
I know I’m probably going to get shredded for this, but that is NOT the place to send a woman, much less a Western woman.
Not that a man would likely be a lot safer.....
Who would send a woman reporter to Cairo to stand in the middle of a frenzied mob? Apparently the money was more important to her than it was to Katie Couric, who was smart enough to get out of there the day after she arrived! Geez...even the male reporters left!
IOW, she was gang raped by the ROP.
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.
If I have an employee that works in a hazardous location, I am not able to avoid damages by saying the employee was a roofer, they shouldn’t have fallen or if they suffered injury they understood the risk.
That’s stupid of CBS News. They should only had sent young, single male reporters to the Middle East.
It's their culture. She was on their turf.
It must have been terrifying.
On the other hand, all of this was common sense. This is the Middle East we’re talking about here and dealing with Arabs.
I’m shocked... You usually see this kind of behavior at Tea Party Rallies... /s
Im dissapointed at the light hearted remarks being made here. We should be pissed off an American citizen was treated in such a way, regardless of their affiliations.
She does not look happy in that picture. I wonder how threatened she felt even then?
I bet it was terrifying, she could have been sentenced to death in some Muslim countries for being raped.
I feel so bad. I hope and pray she heals as best she can.
“I’m shocked... You usually see this kind of behavior at Tea Party Rallies... /s”
It’s no laughing matter. These people are savages and CBS and this reporter should’ve known better and followed Couric’s lead. This is appalling, and hardly surprising.
I thought the same thing metmom.
Look at the C. Amanpour video linked above.
Prayers up for this young woman. I doubt if you can ever completely recover from something so terrifying and traumatic.
I hope CBS is happy for following the feminist doctrine and putting one of their young woman on the front lines of battle.
Whether a male or female producer made the decision to have her there. They are freaking irresponsible idiots!
If a young roofer falls off the roof because I did not REQUIRE and verify that he was supplied and used proper fall protection harnesses and lanyards, I can’t say that he needed to use common sense.
The news media has the historical knowledge to be able to determine risk, a young employee does not. Even experienced employees don’t have the historical knowledge of an entire organization. She should sue CBS and future incidents will drop due to risk avoidance by the employer.
CBS wanted “theater” and they got it.
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