CBS News Issued Lara Logan Attack Assault In Egypt

CBS News issued a chilling statement Tuesday about a horrific attack against one of its correspondents, as she was reporting from Egypt last week: On Friday, February 11, on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, resigned, CBS correspondent Lara Logan was covering the joy in Tahrir Square for a history of 60 minutes, when she and her staff and security were surrounded by a dangerous element in the midst of the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into a frenzy.

     In the bustle of the crowd, she was separated from his crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beatings before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnects with the CBS team, returned to his hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. He is currently in hospital recovering.

     No more comments from CBS News and correspondent for Logan and his family respectfully request privacy at this time. Most mainstream media news of America has a policy of not naming sexual assault survivors and it is difficult to imagine that CBS has issued this statement, which fell like a thunderbolt in the media world very close without the permission of Logan. That makes a very brave woman, as news of the attack bounced through Twitter and newspapers with lightning speed.

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