Lara Logan - CBS Correspondent

(Daily Mail) — As Lara Logan recovers from her attack in Cairo on February 11, more details are emerging of her terrifying ordeal at the hands of a frenzied mob. The 39-year-old foreign correspondent for CBS News show 60 Minutes was separated from her film crew and was surrounded by as many as 200 men in Tahrir Square at the height of the anti-Mubarak demonstrations.
According to one source, reported in The Sunday Times newspaper, sensitive parts of her body were covered in red marks that were originally thought to have been bite marks. After further examination they were revealed to be from aggressive pinching. It has also been revealed that she was stripped, punched and slapped by the crowd, which was labelling her a spy and chanting ‘Israeli’ and ‘Jew’ as they beat her.
And medical sources have revealed that marks on her body were consistent with being whipped and beaten with the makeshift poles that were used to fly flags during the demonstration. An unnamed friend of the reporter told The Sunday Times: ‘Lara is getting better daily. The psychological trauma is as bad as, if not worse than, the physical injuries. She might talk about it at sometime in the future, but not now.’
Guards who had escorted her into the square were also badly beaten by the mob, with one suffering a broken hand, and it took women in the square and about 20 soldiers to finally rescue her from her attackers.  She was taken to the Four Seasons hotel, where she was treated and sedated by the hotel doctor. Within hours of the attack she was flown out of the country and spent five days in a New York hospital.  (Read More)
Our prayers are with her, and her family, for a full recovery; physically, mentally, and spiritually.
It is strange that CBS or any other American news media have not pursued this story much at all.  Not sure what that means entirely or it is reflective of anything.

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