CBS' Lara Logan Hospitalized After 'Brutal' Sexual Assault in Egypt

By Zach Dionne Posted Feb 15th 2011 06:42PM

CBS reporter Lara Logan was surrounded, beaten and sexually assaulted after being separated from her team in the midst of Egyptian protests last Friday.

CBS News released a statement that on Feb. 11, shortly after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power, "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."

Logan was able to rejoin her team and return to the U.S. She was recovering in a hospital on Feb. 15.

CBS' statement concludes by saying: "There will be no further comment from CBS News, and correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time."

Esquire landed an interview with Logan just last week, on her way back to Cairo after being kicked out of the country the week before. "This is the Tiananmen Square of the cyber age," she said. "There's no question."

Reporter Foster Kamer incredulously asked Logan if CBS was "insured for this s**t" and if she was crazy to go back to the thick of the protests. "You know," Logan answered, smiling, "I don't worry about things like that."

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Tuesday 15 February

By wendy spector-steinmetz

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my heart is breaking for lara logan.
she is so brilliant and brave and beautiful.
the mob mentality is despicable and brutal...
men who do this kind of behavior should be beaten and raped for their punishment....
unforgivable behavior...these men are animals....worse!

By Common sense is not so common.

Getting into that crowd was as atupid as jumping into the polar bear cage at the zoo. She should know that.

By stu

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take note ladies..TMZ reports she's 39! u could all look so good.

By islanddreamer

That's what you got from this brutal story Stu? Moron.

By J

Peaceful protesters, eh?

By Ed

Azzhole!!

By j.Isbell

One must wonder if she will "not worry about things like that" in the future? Maybe she won't but somehow doubt that very, very much.

By Paul

You cannot humanize these people they all are animals and will always be.

By Doc

and maybe YOU just need to keep your you know what where it belongs and out of other peoples business & countries? Leave trouble alone and trouble will leave you alone! Remember that!!

By soossass

Yeah good thing nothing like that ever happens here, right? Like the Richmond High School girl who was raped by 5 guys while a dozen others watched... or when that 11 year old girl was raped by 10-20 guys in a trailer in Texas... or when women had their clothes ripped off and were groped during the Mardi Gras in Seattle in 2001. Good thing Americans NEVER act like animals...

By JIM

Absolutely inexcusable. However, she is a veteran of overseas journalism and has been in similar situations before. She had to know that something bad would eventually happen. It's in the numbers. Kudos to her for doing her job even in the face of that.

Tuesday 29 March

By niaya

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"You know," Logan answered, smiling, "I don't worry about things like that."
what the hell?!!I mean ,you just got (probably gang)raped and all you can say is 'i dont worry about things like that'!!!I REALLY REALLY hope that was a made up quote put out in the media to make everything look ok because rape is a terrible crime and she making light of it like nothing ever happened!is it just me and i interpreted what she said wrong?

Friday 18 February

By rockrgirl228

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NIAYA, that quote was from an interview she did BEFORE this incident. duh

Americans will never get it!

By lucmizell

It seems like you had something to say, and then didn't say much.

By ofalaska

I get it, Ed: savage little boogers in equatorial climes can't stand seeing a fine blonde with her head uncovered and think it's an invitation for rape. They want to stone women for their own attraction to them...childish, ignorant barbaric bozos in the idiot empire of Islam!

Wednesday 16 February

By JT

I don't care where she was. She did not deserve what happened, and shame on you for suggesting that she was to blame.

Thursday 17 February

By AndorAbl

Get what? What don't Americans get about this brutal attack?

By raffiatoribbons

I am so sorry that happened to her.

By shannon g

That's really sad it happen to her, but covering news that closely in dangerous situations like that is very risky, and you have to ask yourself, is getting a story up close and personal worth it. That story was not even covered in the news.

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