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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: Virginia Ridgerunner

Got it. Interesting thought process you have there...


101 posted on 02/15/2011 3:28:26 PM PST by coop71 (Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
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To: Amberdawn

I read the article. Thank goodness she wasn’t raped. Hope she is okay.


102 posted on 02/15/2011 3:28:44 PM PST by BMWR1200C
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To: Tennessee Nana
“Why dont they use the word RAPE???”

My wife and I were talking about this last week. Everything is sexual assault. That covers everything from groping to violent rape. I think it allows media to cover for their pals like Rothelsberg, Kobe, Clinton..... Or maybe they think we can't handle it. Kinda like video from 9-11.

103 posted on 02/15/2011 3:34:24 PM PST by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: knarf

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

I agree. But there are plenty of places here in the USA where similar things would have happened to her.


104 posted on 02/15/2011 3:35:25 PM PST by PLMerite (Thanks for fixing the clock.)
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To: jimbo123

“Still waiting for CAIR’s apology...”

Don’t hold your breath. CAIR will be waiting for HER confession.


105 posted on 02/15/2011 3:38:26 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: LibWhacker

“Probably thought it was cute going into a crowd of known savages in revealing clothing who, no doubt, had read about her sexual exploits.”

That’s a bit harsh. Nobody deserves this. She is a human being. She has family, a mother and Father, maybe siblings. Would you want this to happen to your family? I don’t care what she has said or done in the past, I hope she can heal from this, physically, mentally, and spiritually. And you should be ashamed of yourself.


106 posted on 02/15/2011 3:40:19 PM PST by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: freeangel; jimbo123

Still waiting for CAIR’s apology...”

Don’t hold your breath. CAIR will be waiting for HER confession.
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107 posted on 02/15/2011 3:40:30 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: DonaldC

It is the networks that put these reporters in danger. The network bosses do not feel the need to protect the people they sen into harms way? More than one network is responsible for reporters being beaten up by criminal pigs


108 posted on 02/15/2011 3:40:48 PM PST by oldironsides
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To: Beaten Valve
Under Sharia Law, to bring a charge of rape which will hold up in court you have to have four (4!) Muslim males witness (Muslim women cannot be legal witnesses to this) the actual sexual penetration and testify to such and that it was not consensual. Otherwise, she can be prosecuted and stoned for adultery. She is obviously getting off "easy".

Welcome to Islamic justice and turd world hell.

109 posted on 02/15/2011 3:44:11 PM PST by Gritty (Respect for the literal words of The Prophet is incompatible with human rights - Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Who do you think you’re fooling...not me.


110 posted on 02/15/2011 4:10:09 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: MasterGunner01

Nope.


111 posted on 02/15/2011 4:30:41 PM PST by sport
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To: Beaten Valve

Next time, CBS, please send Baba Wawa,’K?!


112 posted on 02/15/2011 4:31:59 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: MPJackal

Um, not everything is a sexual assault. Not if the TSA is doing the “patdown”.


113 posted on 02/15/2011 5:16:36 PM PST by Snerdley (You can put a Suit on a Community Organizer, but it's still an EMPTY SUIT!)
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To: Amberdawn
Hard to defend oneself when you’ve had your bell rung in a CAR ACCIDENT.

Well, we are in agreement then. Women can serve perfectly well in combat as long as the enemy agrees never to injure them.

114 posted on 02/15/2011 5:26:45 PM PST by Last Dakotan (Hunting - the ultimate in organic grocery shopping.)
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To: txhurl
Anybody in Egypt apologizing for this?

Anybody in ISLAM apologizing for this?

115 posted on 02/15/2011 5:29:05 PM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: Beaten Valve

I’ve been told by people in the travel industry that it is dangerous for a woman to be alone in a muslim country


116 posted on 02/15/2011 5:31:19 PM PST by virgil
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To: Lazamataz; Munz

To: weston
Then you saw the video I linked I take it?

That is their peaceful protest in action.

What a shame .. and i do mean SHAME that these “reporters” say everything is just fine and dandy there.
The Muslim Brotherhood wants Sharia law there now. period. they will emerge on top of the game because Obama is putting them there.

Islam is not a religion and people better wake up to that fact. It is a political system backed by religious edicts.
Their laws are mandated by “god” and violence, lying, rape, murder is all not only acceptable but DEMANDED by their laws, which have been commanded by the Prophet.

It is a sinister system of controlling people to act in the most base and depraved manner on the planet. They will happily die or kill to keep it going, because that is the only way to heaven for them.

the MSM better start telling people the truth and they should start right here with this incident of Lara Logan.
THIS is ISLAM.

It is not peaceful or about religion.

243 posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 7:22:22 PM by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)


117 posted on 02/15/2011 5:38:15 PM PST by txhurl
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To: txhurl

I often say, if Hitler had only had the prescience to make Nazism into a religion, we’d all be speaking German today.


118 posted on 02/15/2011 5:50:56 PM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: Beaten Valve

I’ll venture saying that for the compensation she is receiving (in the $$$ millions per year) the lady (?) is well aware of and accepts the risks.


119 posted on 02/15/2011 5:53:31 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: PLMerite
"But there are plenty of places here in the USA where similar things would have happened to her"

That's just the kind of statement that keeps us immobile.

I forget how I came about having this question in my head, but 20 or so years ago I was challenged ... "When you talk to yourself, what do you say?"

We have been SO conditioned to say, "Yeah, but .. ", that the enemies of America just move right in.

The murderous scumbags never think ... they just do.

We need to be a little more adamant in our stand for certain things.

ONE of those things (to me, imo) is .. islam is a cancer and it must be radiated.

120 posted on 02/15/2011 5:55:43 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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