Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Lara Logan

Lara Logan is the CBS reporter who got caught in the middle of the Egyptian unrest and was sexually assaulted and generally beat up by a mob of men.

What CBS originally DID NOT report was what the men were saying while they abused her.

New 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 roughly 200 men chanted "Israeli" and "Jew," apparently believing her to be a spy. Egyptian state media had been reporting that Israeli spies were disguising themselves as television crews.

See it here; http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/21/lara-logan-was-stripped-punched-slapped-report-says/

Why wouldn't CBS have reported that right away? Maybe it didn't want to tarnish the perception of all these young Muslim men? Maybe it didn't fit their story line of the poor, downtrodden men just looking for a better life by throwing out a dictator?

Maybe CBS should just give us the news and let us decide what we think.

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