Breaking this evening is the upsetting news that CBS News correspondent Lara Logan had been sexually assaulted in Egypt while covering President Mubarak's resignation last weekend. The assault reportedly took place on February 11 in Cairo, where she "suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating," according to CBS. Brian Stelter at the New York Times reports that in the midst of an estimated 200-person crowd, Logan was dragged into a "dangerous element" and was eventually "saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers." This was the day she arrived in Egypt, one week after being detained, accused of being an Israeli spy, and then told to leave the country.
Esquire.com was one of two interviews Logan conducted between her two trips (the other was a brief segment on Charlie Rose's show). The Politics Blog spoke with Logan as she was boarding her flight to Cairo on Thursday, February 10, one day before the assault took place. They were, in a sense, her last public words before the alleged assault — Logan didn't get a chance to file from Cairo before the incident in question took place. There are a few remainders from the interview — details about her second trip to Cairo — we've culled from the transcript of that interview in light of today's news....
Source: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/lara-logan-egypt-assault-5241788?src=rss
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