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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]

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To: cripplecreek
Lara Logan is no stranger to reporting on war and revolution

"In late January 2007, Logan filed a report about fighting along Haifa Street in Baghdad. When CBS News refused to run the report on the nightly news because the footage was "a bit strong" (although the network did run the report on their internet site), Logan tried to win public support to reverse this decision. Logan said, "I would be very grateful if any of you have a chance to watch this story and pass the link on to as many people you know as possible. It should be seen. And people should know about this." Logan went on to use some of the Haifa Street material in a 60 Minutes report about life in Baghdad under the surge."

Logan has described how she begged a clerk at the Russian Embassy in London to give her an expedited visa to travel to Afghanistan days after the September 11, 2001, attacks. While in Afghanistan in November 2001, Logan, then working as a correspondent for the British morning program, GMTV, infiltrated the American- and British-backed Northern Alliance fighting against the Taliban. Then she interviewed the Northern Alliance's commander, General Babajan, at the Bagram Air Base.

Logan next spent much of the next four years reporting from the field, including battlefields, in Afghanistan, traveling often as an embedded journalist with the American Armed Forces.

Logan was promoted to the position of the Chief Foreign Correspondent for CBS News in February 2006.

81 posted on 02/15/2011 2:06:58 PM PST by kabar
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To: truthkeeper

“Look at the expression of the guy in the hoodie.”


Leave Manny Ramirez out of this!


82 posted on 02/15/2011 2:07:04 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: lonevoice

I know...I was referring to your comment.


83 posted on 02/15/2011 2:07:22 PM PST by truthkeeper
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To: MindBender26

May God bless and keep Lara Logan during her recovery. Prayers for her emotional and physical healing.


84 posted on 02/15/2011 2:08:49 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: Richard Kimball

It’s often called “gallows humor”...and common on this forum.


85 posted on 02/15/2011 2:08:51 PM PST by truthkeeper
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

If it happened on Friday, then her attackers must have been Coptic Christians, because Muslims were all praying in their mosques. /s//


86 posted on 02/15/2011 2:08:58 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: Chuzzlewit

They sat on this for days and there has been no on-air condemnations and no on-air outrage over this. They are dhimmi denial mode.

If they want to really appease the Muzzies they will have to fire Lara Logan and accuse her of instigating it by being a woman. or something.


87 posted on 02/15/2011 2:09:28 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: MindBender26
Absolutely horrifying.

Not like she wasn't aware, though: this is from 2001.

Byline: ROSA PRINCE Lara, 30, who acknowledged that a sex attack was "always a possibility" while working among Afghanistan's brutal tribal factions, was saved by her loyal interpreter. She had interviewed the gun- carrying Alliance fighters and faced having to stay in the area overnight because it would be unsafe to travel after dark. The pair tried to bribe translator Mohammed Mohammadullah into delaying her departure and told him they planned to "have their way" with her.

Mohammadullah refused the offer and rushed Lara to safety. "He was a man who I trusted - literally - with my life," said Lara yesterday. "I will always be grateful. But I believe you have to take calculated risks. It was always a possibility that I would be raped in Afghanistan but you have to weigh up the probability of it. I was never foolhardy but I thought it all through and decided how I would cope if it did happen.

"I didn't take foolish risks and I am an experienced journalist who knows how to avoid dangerous situations."

88 posted on 02/15/2011 2:10:25 PM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: BykrBayb

CBS is wringing their hands because they don’t have video of the attack. Then again, maybe it never happened; a hoax, a publicity stunt for Lara’s career.


89 posted on 02/15/2011 2:11:00 PM PST by Misterioso (The noble soul has reverence for itself. - Nietzche)
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Some pretty sad comments on here. You can talk about the wisdom of sending an attractive young woman into a crowd like this. But don’t let your disgust for the kind of animals that did this outweigh your empathy for this young lady. Putting herself in a risky situation made her more vulnerable to an attack NOT more deserving of an attack (or less deserving of our sympathy after the fact).


90 posted on 02/15/2011 2:11:17 PM PST by ICU812 (Oldtime Freeper, back from a long hiatus)
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To: Chuzzlewit
...it’s interesting that they sat on this for days...

Their legal team had them hold off while they spent the weekend reviewing the possible magnitude of the workman's comp claim and other assorted lawsuits they may be facing.

92 posted on 02/15/2011 2:12:06 PM PST by HKMk23 (WANT DIFFERENT? VOTE DIFFERENT!)
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To: MindBender26
A liberal, spoiled, Westerner (who on top of that works for See BS) learns the hard way that Muslims are scum bags.

I remember reading about the upper middle class white liberals who went to Haiti, and were raped on roof tops and in shanty towns.

So many US liberal women have bought into the Great Lie:

ALL CULTURES ARE EQUAL! ALL CULTURES ARE EQUAL! ALL CULTURES ARE EQUAL!

The poor woman. I hope she is OK, and heals up, both mentally and physically.

It is going to be a long road for her, especially if she has no faith in God.

93 posted on 02/15/2011 2:12:23 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: MindBender26

So does this mean the media is going to cancel those plans for the neighborhood softball games with the Muslim Brotherhood?


94 posted on 02/15/2011 2:12:59 PM PST by GVnana
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To: AppyPappy

Must have been Tea Partyers/s


95 posted on 02/15/2011 2:13:15 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Planning on using 911? Google "Brittany Zimmerman")
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To: truthkeeper; Richard Kimball

Sometimes it’s an odd reaction when what you really want to do is kill the scum with your bare hands, skin them alive and throw their sorry butts into a vat of salt water.


96 posted on 02/15/2011 2:14:39 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: MindBender26

The islamic murders and rapists are simply doing the job Christian murders and rapists won’t.


97 posted on 02/15/2011 2:14:39 PM PST by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks.)
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To: ICU812

Do you have the same empathy for Anderson Cooper? Although Logan had plenty of experience in wartime reporting in the Islamic world, she made a foolish mistake believing that she could be among a crowd of young Muslim men dressed like a Westerner and not covering her hair and most of her body. It was dumb and she is lucky it was not worse.


98 posted on 02/15/2011 2:16:05 PM PST by kabar
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To: MindBender26
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.

Here we see pure democracy in action. Democracy is nothing but organized collectivist mob rule with no constraints UNLESS it acknowledges, guarantees, and protects individual rights unalienable endowed by the Creator.

We see here a good real world example of the difference between Islamic democracy and American democracy as Founded.

As well we see clearly the collectivist democracy 0marxo and and his socialist community organizers wish to 'reform' America into...

100 posted on 02/15/2011 2:16:47 PM PST by DBeers (†)
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