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CBS Reporter Assaulted During Egyptian Celebration

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Posted on Feb 15, 2011
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Lara Logan is the chief foreign correspondent for CBS News.

On Tuesday, CBS News released a statement that reporter Lara Logan was attacked and sexually assaulted in Tahrir Square after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. Logan was filming a segment for “60 Minutes” when she and her crew were caught up in a mob of about 200 people “whipped into a frenzy,” according to the network.  —KA

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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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By Leefeller, February 16, 2011 at 8:14 pm Link to this comment

What truth? She was raped by a mob of male pigs, now I can assume they were a particular kind of male pig, from all counts it seems they were clearly Egyptian Republican pigs. Now some people are able to guesstimate with decisiveness, with such certainty and bandy their introverted opinions sponsored by certitude of the imbeciles they seem! So, I can guesstimate with the simplest of them all.

May it be male pigs in this world are not limited to Egypt, even our own military supports rape by ignoring it and obviously Halocarbon has had its dirty hands involved in a well known rape case of its own. The fact women can still be treated as such provokes a vision of just how flat the world really is.

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By photoshock, February 16, 2011 at 8:08 pm Link to this comment

The very idea of a sustained and brutal sexual
assault by a mob of Egyptian men is abhorrent to the
ideal of Islam. This is an assault that should not
have taken place and until the perpetrators are
discovered, women in Egypt must be aware of this
happening again. I am appalled at the level of
violence that Ms.Logan endured and she should seek
justice for this assault.
Whether she ever leaves this country again, is
another story. With this kind of sexual assault, PTSD
is an obvious result. Hopefully, she will receive
help from her employer and their insurance company.
Had this been a European or any other country, right
now she would be receiving rape counseling and
counseling for PTSD. Here in America one never knows.

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By Arabian Sinbad, February 16, 2011 at 8:00 pm Link to this comment

I feel deeply sorry and extremely outraged at what happened to Lara Logan. This is uncharacteristic of Egyptians, especially those who were celebrating their victory of freedom and liberty. Most likely the attackers were Mubarak’s thugs trying a revenge on the international media figures for covering the revolution. In fact, there were other journalists, such as Anderson of CNN, who was viciously attacked by the Mubarak thugs, but he got a little luckier.

Now, let’s look at a parallel piece of news about some 3000 American service women in Afghanistan, who in 2009 alone were raped by their fellow American soldiers, and the Pentagon failed to take serious action. Therefore, a group of those women are suing the Pentagon! I heard this story on Public Radio just yesterday. The TV Networks I watch have yet to report this savagery affecting thousands of women abused and raped by their fellow Americans in a war zone.

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By Leefeller, February 16, 2011 at 7:49 pm Link to this comment

What truth? She was raped by a mob of male pigs, now I can assume they were a particular kind of male pig, from all counts it seems they were clearly Egyptian Republican pigs. Now some people are able to guesstimate with decisiveness, with such certainty and bandy their introverted opinions sponsored by certitude of the imbeciles they seem! So, I can guesstimate with the simplest of them all.

May it be. male pigs in this world are not limited to Egypt, even our own military supports rape by ignoring it and obviously Halocarbon has had its dirty hands involved in a well known rape case of its own. The fact women can still be treated as such provokes a vision of just how flat the world really is.

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By lastdaywatchers, February 16, 2011 at 1:42 pm Link to this comment

The perfect example of what to “watch” 
for in these last days, namely Israel hypocrisy
(See: The Hypocrisy, The Promise & The
Fulfillment
)

The propaganda of the so-called “green
movement”
  have been describe as a
“brutal suppression”
  but here is the
facts

“Revolutionary Guards, fiercely loyal to
Khamenei, put down the 2009 protests. Two people were
hanged and scores of opposition supporters jailed.
The last mass demonstration was held in December 2009
when eight people were killed”

Whereas the Egypt protest have been rightfully
describe as a “peaceful protest” 
despite these facts

Up to a 1,000 people died in this revolution —
most of them killed by the police, Journalists were
beaten & rape”

It is because of that hypocrisy, the propaganda will
continue: especially on this day

(watch how they try to tie Iran to Middle East
uprising to make it seem like they are like the rest
of those U.S. supported regimes - but you
LastDayWatchers
  have been told the truth)

As you view more evidence to the failures of
God curse of the Bush/Obama Administrations


http://infoofwisdombythemay15thprophecy.blogspot.com/
2011/02/binocular-snapshot-for-2142011.html

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By abikecommuter, February 16, 2011 at 12:08 pm Link to this comment

We should be balancing the governents budget by cutting military spending. The need
for regime change in Iraq has been shown to unncessary as Arabs in Iran, Egypt,
Tunissia, Bharain, Jordan, etc. show themselves perfectly capable of addressing their
issues. But it was harrowing to read that a CBS reporter was raped in Egypt during the
celebration. Every war zone we are involved for rersources have rapes as a policy tool
from colton in the congo to oil in Iraq. And todays New York Times reports on a lawsuit
against our military for sexual assaults. Our halls of congress also ring with terror against
women.

The military and a culture of assualts against women should NOT be the only growing
job market for our children. Lets fund our schools, health care, and local jobs now
instead of terrorizing our wives, mothers and daughters in half the worlds population.

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By Inherit The Wind, February 16, 2011 at 11:24 am Link to this comment

Only Cyr would be a pig enough to suggest this reporter got what she “deserved” by being gang-raped.

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By magus12, February 16, 2011 at 10:54 am Link to this comment
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rollzone:

Yours is the most inexcusably vicious and repulsive comment I’ve seen in a very long time. Particularly at this time.  Ah well, just another rape joke to you, huh?  Do us all a favor and crawl back under your rock.

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By Larry Snider, February 16, 2011 at 10:35 am Link to this comment
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I would like to say that in the midst of all the misplaced anger and finger pointing it is necessary to express sympathy for Ms. Logan.

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By David J. Cyr, February 16, 2011 at 10:09 am Link to this comment

Logan was the most cheerfully embedded media cheerleader for America’s beyond brutal assault upon the People of Iraq.

Perhaps her Karma has come around.

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By rollzone, February 16, 2011 at 9:58 am Link to this comment

hello. i have dirtied my sites, and i want to know whom
has rights to the footage? will her porno debut be
frowned upon by upper management, and will it harass
her career? is there some particular one she is
secretly staying in touch with? will there be an
ongoing series throughout the Middle East? what tips
can she pass along to other sexually adventurous
females? how can this behavior still be frowned upon?

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By zonth, February 16, 2011 at 6:52 am Link to this comment
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Indeed, a mob is as a mob does.  As inspiring as it may be to US inernet ‘hive mentality’; watching the Egypians get off their arses and catalyze change; it does not change the psychology of mob mentality. Journalist’s often have some strange megalomaniacal complex of immunity from the chaos they are attemting to objectively cover. I empathize with her but in truth it Serves her right.  She should have filmed it from her Crown Plaza Hotel balcony.
I can only imagine a mob revolution in NYC.  People would be too busy breaking into stores to steal shiny white sneakers and i-phones that they would forget why they were there in the first place.  In fact I bet the US governement would forestall revolution by dropping cell phone gadgets, cans of Coke, and bags of chips into the American mob.

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By truedigger3, February 16, 2011 at 6:23 am Link to this comment

Re: By Inherit The Wind, February 16 at 4:39 am

ITW wrote:
“It is the latest horror being used by dictators: rape squads. “
—————————————————————————

ITW,
I am sure that Mubarak with all his faults and shortcomings, had anything to do with that ugly incident.  Definitely, he didn’t form “rape squads”.
That incident is extremely uncharacteristic of the Egyptian culture and pattern of behaviour. Rapes do happen in Egypt but they are EXTREMELY VERY RARE.

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By gerard, February 15, 2011 at 11:55 pm Link to this comment

Inherit the Wind:  You mean that now we have to crawl out of the fear of a Jihad morass only to jump into a Muslim rape-squad cesspool?  Enough, already!

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By Inherit The Wind, February 15, 2011 at 10:39 pm Link to this comment

Let me add: I don’t think what happened to this reporter is funny in any way.  It is the latest horror being used by dictators: rape squads.  Bashir in Sudan used it in Darfur.

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By Inherit The Wind, February 15, 2011 at 10:38 pm Link to this comment

Rico,
Your tongue-in-cheek comment about the CIA (you left out Mossad) will, in fact be taken literally by some of the feeble-minded posting here—they’ve already claimed that for the protests in Iran.

Meanwhile, your turn of phrase is stylin’, and is damned funny (and my younger son is golden brown, too)

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By rico, suave, February 15, 2011 at 9:20 pm Link to this comment

Big B:

How is it possible to read so much into a smart ass juvenile post such as mine? Brown convenience store robbers? “Debotchery”? (Spell check please.) What conclusions did I jump to? Who did the raping in NYC- fundamentalist Christians? Wall Street bankers? Republicans? Conservatives? Tea Partiers? Who did the raping in Cairo? Mubarak’s people? The army? The Muslim Brotherhood? I hope you have answers. I know I don’t. Just don’t jump to conclusions.

Read gerard’s comment below. He gets it.

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By gerard, February 15, 2011 at 8:55 pm Link to this comment

rico, snide is at it again.  It’s not what he says but how he says it.

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By Big B, February 15, 2011 at 8:54 pm Link to this comment

Ah Rico, playing the typical conservative line, If one “brown” person robs a convenience store, they are all thieves.

And since you have once again decided to stand up for us “put upon” americans, you should probably know that our reputation for debotchery here, and around the world, is well documented and deserved. The rates of violent and sexual crime in the US is only equaled by the civil war ravaged nations of central africa.

Why do conservatives still believe that, if an american fucks you over, you should shake his hand and thank him.

The truth you need to wake up to is that there are bad people everywhere, and that more women were raped in New York city on that same day as were in egypt. And please, don’t jump to any more conclusions until all the facts are in.

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By rico, suave, February 15, 2011 at 8:33 pm Link to this comment

Impossible!

Only white trash ‘Murikans and the US military are capable of such behavior. Those brown skinned freedom fighters are far too busy thinking Jeffersonian thoughts to be distracted by a foxy blond in their midst.

Those 200 “frenzied” “Egyptians” were obviously false flaggers planted by Halliburton contractors working for the CIA in their sick effort to get ‘Murikans to hate the “other”.

Come on people- wake up to the truth!

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