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| Lara Logan in Iraq. Photo by US Army Lieutenant Colonel Scott Bliechwehl (RELEASED) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons |
A long-time follower of the CBS Evening News, I’ve been a loyal supporter of chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan and news anchor Katie Couric since they first assumed their current responsibilities in 2006.
This evening, I was shocked by Katie Couric’s announcement that Lara Logan had been brutally assaulted in Egypt while attempting to cover the resignation of Hosni Mubarak. Couric went on to say that Logan is back in the states and “recovering well in the hospital.”
Here’s the official CBS statement:
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.
There will be no further comment from CBS News and Correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.
This is indeed a dark chapter in the Egyptian uprising, and we owe a debt of gratitude to that group of women and those Egyptian soldiers for rescuing Lara Logan.
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