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CBS News' Lara Logan Assaulted During Egypt Protests

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(CBSNews) On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign 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.
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CBS News' Lara Logan Assaulted During Egypt Protests - 60 Minutes - CBS News

Blonde female, infidel... Islamic country in a riotous state...

I'm glad they got her out of there, but she should NEVER HAVE BEEN THERE. Just ASKING for trouble.
 
She looks like she would have been accosted in any mob of very horny and repressed men.. What was she thinking?

Tim-
 
Looks like several freedom loving Egyptians were more interested in some white girl *****.
 
CBS Reporter Sexually Assaulted in Tahrir Square

This seriously broke my heart. We were watching live as demonstrators broke between the pretty blonde correspondent and the rest of her production team. I told my husband I didn't like the way the men were looking at her. Now I see this:

CBS News' Logan Recovering after 'Brutal' Attack | CNSnews.com

...Separated from her crew in the crush of the violent pack, she suffered what CBS called "a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating." She was saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers, the network said...
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Absolutely horrible. It breaks my heat that this courageous woman was abused by the very people she was supporting, and trying to interview. I almost feel complicit in this vile attack, because I was so thrilled that the Egyptian people had managed to garner their freedom. I was watching when that same crowd pushed the camera/production team away from from the female correspondent.

I am horrified and stunned. I had been rooting for the Egyptian protesters to push Mubarak's corrupt regime out of office... and yet they do this to an innocent journalist trying to project their demands to the world???

I'm really, really furious, and sick at the depravity.
 
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**** happens and we move on.
 
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I hope she is tough enough to get past this enough to go back to work, but I also hope she has learned that her life is worth more than any story.

I am sorry this happened to her but she should have known the risks were enormous.
 
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DiAnna said:
This seriously broke my heart. We were watching live as demonstrators broke between the pretty blonde correspondent and the rest of her production team. I told my husband I didn't like the way the men were looking at her. Now I see this:

CBS News' Logan Recovering after 'Brutal' Attack | CNSnews.com



Absolutely horrible. It breaks my heat that this courageous woman was abused by the very people she was supporting, and trying to interview. I almost feel complicit in this vile attack, because I was so thrilled that the Egyptian people had managed to garner their freedom. I was watching when that same crowd pushed the camera/production team away from from the female correspondent.

I am horrified and stunned. I had been rooting for the Egyptian protesters to push Mubarak's corrupt regime out of office... and yet they do this to an innocent journalist trying to project their demands to the world???

I'm really, really furious, and sick at the depravity.
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There were thousand of people there, you have to seperate the few who attacked her from the thousands others who didn't, and then the few who helped her too.

I was surprised to read there were 140 attacks on journalists. But the foreign journalists are often proud of the fact that they are brave enough to go into these places to report these events. I think the one guy who was killed is to be pitied too.
 
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Sadly the dispicable act of a few people...and I garauntee you this isn't the only such act of ill repute by some of the protestors...can't be looked at as a symptom or a representation of the whole. Condemn those people for their actions, but don't ignore that it was egyptian protesters as well who helped the woman after that. These pieces of trash give their movement a black eye, but they are but a small part.

I wish some people would take a similar "**** happens" mentality when a minority of idiots of a larger momvent do something stupid ALL the time rather than only when its not politically advantageous to assume its not representitive of the whole...but that'd probably be asking too much.

The only people complicite with their actions are themselves, and I hope they find a fitting bit of karma dropping upon them for their dispicable act.
 
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DiAnna said:
This seriously broke my heart. We were watching live as demonstrators broke between the pretty blonde correspondent and the rest of her production team. I told my husband I didn't like the way the men were looking at her. Now I see this:

CBS News' Logan Recovering after 'Brutal' Attack | CNSnews.com



Absolutely horrible. It breaks my heat that this courageous woman was abused by the very people she was supporting, and trying to interview. I almost feel complicit in this vile attack, because I was so thrilled that the Egyptian people had managed to garner their freedom. I was watching when that same crowd pushed the camera/production team away from from the female correspondent.

I am horrified and stunned. I had been rooting for the Egyptian protesters to push Mubarak's corrupt regime out of office... and yet they do this to an innocent journalist trying to project their demands to the world???

I'm really, really furious, and sick at the depravity.
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What a horrible story, and you know the scum who did this to her won't be held accountable at all. It'll be interesting to see if people are willing to condemn this or will just duck it instead.
 
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This was Lara Logan's fault, she was not escorted by her husband or brothers and she was not wearing hijab. She should face prosecution for tempting this crowd of fine moderate muslim men. Now it is up to her family to execute her for bringing dishonor to her family, right?
 
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Check out what one of the academic elites from NYU tweeted about the reporter following the assault.

*“Lara Logan had to outdo Anderson. Where was her buddy McCrystal." (That is a reference to CNN journalist Anderson Cooper, and to retired Gen. Stanley Allen McChrystal, who was forced to resign as commander of troops in Afghanistan by President Obama for unflattering comments about administration officials attributed to McChrystal in a Rolling Stone article.)

*“Yes yes its wrong what happened to her. Of course. I don’t support that. But, it would have been funny if it happened to Anderson too.”

*“Jesus Christ, at a moment when she is going to become a martyr and glorified we should at least remember her role as a major war monger”

*“Look, she was probably groped like thousands of other women, which is still wrong, but if it was worse than [sic] I’m sorry.”
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/higher-education/why-didnt-nyu-fire-nir-rosen-o.html
 
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I think it's hasty to blame the entire group of protesters for the actions of a few jerks.
 
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Councilman said:
I hope she is tough enough to get past this enough to go back to work, but I also hope she has learned that her life is worth more than any story.

I am sorry this happened to her but she should have known the risks were enormous.
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For the love of god, she was just trying to do her job. Sexual assault of journalists is not a common thing and I doubt this even crossed her mind when she took the assignment.
 
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This wasn't just Logan being assaulted. According to the Post:

NYPost said:
As part of the anti-media backlash, CNN's Anderson Cooper had also been roughed up, and ABC correspondent Brian Hartman had been threatened with beheading.

"[Logan] was not in the country for long -- she'd been thrown out, if you remember -- and had just gone back in," one source said.

"She had security with her, but it wasn't enough."
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Read more: CBS reporter's Cairo nightmare - NYPOST.com


Jubilation of Egypts potentially new country by attacking, sexually assaulting and threatening the beheading of journalists sounds... not so good.
 
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thank goodness he was immediately asked to resign. what a creep.
 
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Hoplite said:
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I think it's hasty to blame the entire group of protesters for the actions of a few jerks.
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"Jerk"? That might just be the understatement of the year. I'm getting a little sick of being told not to be too outraged because of who commits a crime. Sometimes outrage is the appropriate response.
 
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X Factor said:
"Jerk"? That might just be the understatement of the year.
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Then insert whatever adjective you'd like

I'm getting a little sick of being told not to be too outraged because of who commits a crime. Sometimes outrage is the appropriate response.
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Be as outraged as you want, just dont lose sight of the fact that this was the responsibility of a handful of individuals and blaming the entire crowd for this is not valid.

Anger is perfectly find, so long as it doesnt blind you to other important things.
 
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Ockham said:
This wasn't just Logan being assaulted. According to the Post:

Read more: CBS reporter's Cairo nightmare - NYPOST.com

Jubilation of Egypts potentially new country by attacking, sexually assaulting and threatening the beheading of journalists sounds... not so good.
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How is what you're doing any different than the insinuations made towards Tea Partiers because of bad actions by a handful of various idiots within the movement throughout the country?
 
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Zyphlin said:
How is what you're doing any different than the insinuations made towards Tea Partiers because of bad actions by a handful of various idiots within the movement throughout the country?
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What am I doing?
 
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Ockham said:
What am I doing?
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You dared suggest disapproval that some people in the crowd were something other than peaceful protesters.
 
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Zyphlin said:
How is what you're doing any different than the insinuations made towards Tea Partiers because of bad actions by a handful of various idiots within the movement throughout the country?
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How is what you're doing not a deflection of the topic and a violation of the forum rules?
 
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X Factor said:
You dared suggest disapproval that some people in the crowd were something other than peaceful protesters.
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I dared to post that Logan was not the only journalist who was in danger AND I dared to state that it was not good.
 
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Degreez said:
How is what you're doing not a deflection of the topic and a violation of the forum rules?
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I believe the topic of this thread is the sexual assault of CBS's 60 minutes reporter Laura Logan, and NOT the tea party.
 
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Ockham said:
I dared to post that Logan was not the only journalist who was in danger AND I dared to state that it was not good. Everything else you assumed and inferred.
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Well, not me but I understand what you're saying.
 
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