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Lara Logan Talks About Assault to '60 Minutes'
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- CBS correspondent Lara Logan says she believed she was going to die while she was being sexually assaulted and beaten in Egypt's Tahrir Square. CBS News / AP "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan is shown covering the reaction in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. Logan speaks out Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes" about the assault, which happened while she was reporting on that country's political uprising. She was set upon by a mob of several hundred men. She said in an interview with Scott Pelley that "there was no ...
Ordeal of Freed Times Reporters Highlights Dangers Faced by Journalists
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsGunfire. Sexual assault. Beatings. These are just a few of the abuses New York Times reporters and photographers said they suffered when they were captured by the Libyan government and held for six days until their release Monday, a stark reminder of the huge risks often taken by journalists when they cover some of the world's most important and compelling stories. The journalists' account of the ordeal is harrowing. It began when their driver accidentally drove into a checkpoint manned by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and the group was immediately ambushed and nearly killed by a barrage ...
Lara Logan Assault: Why Female Foreign Correspondents Need Self-Defense Skills
By Mary Winter - Politics DailyHow does a woman acquire the trademarked name "Dr. Ruthless"? If you're Melissa Soalt, aka "Dr. Ruthless," you preach the gospel of low-down, dirty, eye-gouging, groin-crushing, go-for-the-throat self-defense tactics for women. You also take your 26 years of martial arts training -- Soalt is in the Black Belt Hall of Fame -- and combine it with your insights as a former psychotherapist. You come up with a potent message to women that constant fear is a crippler, and that you can learn how to fight like a warrior -- or a mad dog -- always keeping in mind that fleeing, if possible, is your ...
Middle East Erupts: Orchestra Seat to the Revolution
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyIf the powers that be had realized the global implications of the Internet when it was invented, they probably would have found some way to kill it. Take a look at these early pages and the very first World Wide Web site. Then take a look at this CNN footage of the intrepid Ben Wedeman in Benghazi. In just two decades, the earth has shifted. I suspect the 1989 slaughter of unarmed protesters in Tiananmen Square could not happen today, or at least not without severe international repercussions. Same with Rwanda. One wonders how much sooner Hitler and Stalin might have been stopped if the ...
Keri Potts' and Lara Logan's Shared Ordeal: Sex Assault Overseas
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyKeri A. Potts claims membership in an exclusive club. But it's a club she never wanted to join. Potts is a sexual assault survivor. Her ordeal occurred in Rome, but it could have happened anywhere. On a college campus like Notre Dame. At a high school party in Texas. In Egypt while on a journalism assignment. "I'm a sexual assault survivor," said the svelte, curly-haired, 33-year-old. "That's the first time I've said that in a room full of people." Potts was featured speaker at this week's lunchtime lecture at the Clinton School for Public Service in Little Rock, Ark. Potts, an ESPN ...
Lara Logan Was Stripped, Punched, Slapped, Report Says
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsNew details have emerged in the "brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating" inflicted on CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan in Egypt's Tahrir Square the night President Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power. During the Feb. 11 attack, Logan was stripped of her clothes, punched and slapped by the crowd, according to the Times of London (via the Daily Mail.) She was beaten with the poles demonstrators used to fly flags during the protests, and red marks on her body initially believed to be bite marks turned out to be the result of pinching. As she was being abused, the crowd of ...
What CNN Didn't Want to Show in the Lara Logan Photo
By Joseph Schuman - AOL NewsThe image is already infamous for the horrendous event that took place moments after a photographer captured it. It shows CBS News correspondent Lara Logan with a jostling crowd of Egyptian men in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday night. CBS said it was taken just before she was attacked and sexually assaulted amid the uproar and jubilation that followed President Hosni Mubarak's decision to resign. The faces of the people behind her seem to reflect a range of emotions, from anger and anxiety to joy and celebration. One smiling man in a hooded sweatshirt appears to be holding up a "V" sign for ...
Nir Rosen's Offensive Tweets Shouldn't Have Surprised Us
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAs I recently noted, Nir Rosen, a left-wing war journalist, resigned his NYU fellowship amid uproar over offensive Tweets he sent immediately following news of the brutal sexual assault suffered by CBS reporter Lara Logan in Egypt. As the news about Logan was breaking, Rosen Tweeted several utterly disturbing remarks, including: "Lara Logan had to outdo Anderson [Cooper]. Where was her buddy [General Stanley] McCrystal." "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." "Look, she was probably ...
ABC's Miguel Marquez Attacked During Bahrain Protests
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsABC News correspondent Miguel Marquez was attacked today in the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain as government security forces moved in on protesters. Marquez had been filing a report from Pearl Square in Bahrain's capital Manama, where thousands of pro-democracy campaigners had gathered, when police moved in to clear the plaza of protesters. Marquez was surrounded by what he described as a "gang of thugs," who attacked him with billy clubs and snatched a camera from his hands. In an audio clip of the attack, Marquez can be heard describing how the square was being bombarded with canisters ...
Opinion: Lara Logan Assault Exposes Egypt's Dirty Little Secret
By not in system - AOL NewsThe sexual assault of CBS reporter Lara Logan during her coverage of the revolution in Egypt is reprehensible. Her courage, for daring to make her story public, is laudable, drawing attention as it does to the contemptuous treatment of women in Egyptian society. Sherry Jones Author Sherry Jones visited Egypt just before the revolution to research her new novel. During the two weeks we spent in Egypt just before the revolution, we heard numerous accounts of male harassment and exploitation of women, especially white women, in that country. In a literary salon in Cairo, women spoke ...
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