[PapaBear3625]

From my experience, I can't imagine any Western woman being in Egypt during a riot and not knowing she was in extreme danger. Lara had spent a lot of time in the Middle East. She shouldn't have been outside at all. Look again, at the news photos...no women, not even in burkas. I guess Lara thought she was invincible. Very foolish, indeed.

One simple reason why she was there: it is her JOB to accept risk in order to get the story. She gets paid EXTREMELY well to be there in dangerous environments in front of a camera. More than a high-rise construction worker, more than a coal miner, more than an inner-city cop, more than a soldier.

If she wasn't willing to go where the story is, regardless of risk, then she would be out of a job.

[Travis McGee]

And she probably had a false sense of security from being surrounded by a dozen or so camera people, gophers and security men.

But in the mass mob, her dozen protectors were swept away like dust, leaving her alone.