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CBS Correspondent Lara Logan Sexually Assualted in Tahrir Square

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CBS News' Lara Logan Assaulted While Covering Egypt Protests
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 4:33 PM
WBNS-10TV


CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was separated from her crew and was brutally assaulted last Friday, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, the network announced Tuesday.
The following is a statement released by CBS News:

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.
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Luckily she's a not Muslim or she'd be stoned to death for committing adultery.
 
Maybe we'll find out more later. It seems odd that women and soldiers were able to rescue her. I guess those that attacked her were Mubarak supporters...but then, maybe they were just amped up angry men who saw her as a foreigner who was making things worse. Probably a huge amount of cultural aspect, in that she was not acting in a submissive role, but doing a "man's job", and possibly not dressing like they considered proper (not saying "suggestive", per se, just if she was not covered up enough it could be seen as another sign of her foreignness). No idea if she was dressed like Amanpour sometimes dresses. Lara seemed to avoid that strategy whenever I saw her.

Not saying she deserved it at all....but a few days earlier she was "hiding" from Mubarak thugs with an avowed agenda to attack foeign news crews. She had balls to go out, but what happened, however horrible, was one of the possibilities of her doing that job. Men get beaten in those situations. Women get raped. I hope she recovers.
 
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Gatorubet;1875122; said:
I guess those that attacked her were Mubarak supporters...
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There was one article I saw asserting that within the Tahrir square crowd that day (of mostly general jubilation) were smaller groups of the Egyptian secret police. They were getting into it with with those expressing joy at Hosni's departure - and also still trying to intimidate foreign journalists, despite being heavily outnumbered by opponents of Mubarak.

Couldn't find the article itself just now - so the above is a gist of it recall.

That they backed down when a crowd of Burka wearing Egyptian women came to Logan's rescue says all you need to know about their manhood.
 
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Prior posters should all be dinged for violating the long-standing BP rule of... referencing female names without pics

New thread readers will begin by being sympathetic .. then see photo.. and making immediate transition to pathetic... whle thinking 'dang, wish I was the one .. she's hot'
 
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Let's see, hot blonde...check

Egypt is 90% muslim...check

Muslim culture blames women for getting raped...check

Muslim culture says women should be fully covered and it is highly unlikely she was...check

Mob mentality...check

Gee, I can't imagine how this happened.

Maybe next time the people who assigned her will think a little about where they are putting her, and other women reporters, in the future.
 
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Jake;1875455; said:
Let's see, hot blonde...check

Egypt is 90% muslim...check

Muslim culture blames women for getting raped...check

Muslim culture says women should be fully covered and it is highly unlikely she was...check

Mob mentality...check

Gee, I can't imagine how this happened.

Maybe next time the people who assigned her will think a little about where they are putting her, and other women reporters, in the future.
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No kidding. She'd be so much safer in a locker room with Brett Favre.
 
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Jake;1875455; said:
Let's see, hot blonde...check

Egypt is 90% muslim...check

Muslim culture blames women for getting raped...check

Muslim culture says women should be fully covered and it is highly unlikely she was...check

Mob mentality...check

Gee, I can't imagine how this happened.

Maybe next time the people who assigned her will think a little about where they are putting her, and other women reporters, in the future.
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Wow. This is Egypt.

I don't even know where to begin. She was in a mob. With all the mobs there recently I'm surprised there hasn't been more of this: there would be in the USA. And she wasn't raped.

Also, for the ignorant, even bad comic sites make fun of your stereotypes:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18911_5-ridiculous-things-you-probably-believe-about-islam.html
 
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