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Lara Logan Beaten With Flagpoles, Fists

Recovering reporter was stripped in mob of 200 men

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 21, 2011 6:37 AM CST | Updated Feb 21, 2011 7:40 AM CST

(Newser) – Harsh new details of Lara Logan's attack in Cairo: The CBS reporter was stripped and battered with fists and makeshift flagpoles, reports the Times of London, via the Daily Mail. She was pinched so hard by her attackers that the red marks that covered her body were initially thought to be bites. “The psychological trauma is as bad as, if not worse than, the physical injuries,” said a friend. Still, “Lara is getting better daily."

After Logan and her crew were separated, soldiers attempted to rescue her, but she reportedly fell, the Australian notes. She was attacked for 30 minutes, sources say, amid shouts of "Israeli" and "Jew." She was finally rescued by a group of women and about 20 soldiers, and was then taken to the Four Seasons, where she was treated and sedated. Despite the experience, friends expect her to return to the Middle East. Click for more on Lara Logan.

In this Feb. 11, 2011 photo released by CBS, 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan is shown covering the reaction in in Cairo's Tahrir Square the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.
In this Feb. 11, 2011 photo released by CBS, "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan is shown covering the reaction in in Cairo's Tahrir Square the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.   (AP Photo/CBS News)
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passinthru
Feb 21, 2011 7:17 PM CST
that wasnt a flag pole they were beating her with...
Bartmaeus
Feb 21, 2011 2:08 PM CST
This was how the happy freedom-loving band of revolutionaries celebrated their liberation from Mubarak: by screaming "Jew Jew Jew" and brutalising a woman. This was known all along. And what does the liberal western media do? It buries this inconvenient truth about the real nature of these jokers in an item over ten days after the event. I wonder why? And see below, voices rationalising this behaviour as common to all religions. What double standards! Laughable! No principles, that's liberalism.
YouLikeDont
Feb 21, 2011 11:30 AM CST
The conservatives that are praising the attack on Logan are sick (and it appears to mainstream right-wing belief now). It's like saying American soldiers deserve to get killed and maimed because they "knew what they're getting into." It's so fucking sick.

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