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 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.
Hey, sounds like the threats I get from American Muslims on a regular basis. Now you know what its like, Lara.
There will be no further comment from CBS News and Correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.
I just love it when the people of the profession of the publics right to know suddenly want privacy. Tell it to your next interview subject, Lara. Of course CBS has no further comment. Wouldnt wanna impugn the peacefulness of Religion of Peace animals, would we? Now, if they were Christians or Jews, well, then there would be comments galore.
So sad, too bad, Lara. No one told her to go there. She knew the risks. And she should have known what Islam is all about. Now she knows. Or so wed hope. But in the case of the media vis-a-vis Islam, thats a hope thats generally unanswered.
This never happened to her or any other mainstream media reporter when Mubarak was allowed to treat his country of savages in the only way they can be controlled.
Now thats all gone. How fitting that Lara Logan was liberated by Muslims in Liberation Square while she was gushing over the other part of the liberation.
Hope youre enjoying the revolution, Lara! Alhamdilllullah [praise allah].