via Drudge, this was the female news reporter who got raped by a mob in Egypt. Shit is crazy

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/business/media/29logan.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2

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"CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that Hosni Mubarak’s government fell in Cairo. Ms. Logan, a CBS News correspondent, was in the square preparing a report for “60 Minutes” on Feb. 11 when the celebratory mood suddenly turned threatening. She was ripped away from her producer and bodyguard by a group of men who tore at her clothes and groped and beat her body. “For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands,” Ms. Logan said in an interview with The New York Times. She estimated that the attack involved 200 to 300 men. Ms. Logan, who returned to work this month, is expected to speak at length about the assault on the CBS News program “60 Minutes” on Sunday night. Her experience in Cairo underscored the fact that female journalists often face a different kind of violence. While other forms of physical violence affecting journalists are widely covered — the traumatic brain injury suffered by the ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff in Iraq in 2006 was a front-page story at that time — sexual threats against women are rarely talked about within journalistic circles or in the news media. With sexual violence, “you only have your word,” Ms. Logan said in the interview. “The physical wounds heal. You don’t carry around the evidence the way you would if you had lost your leg or your arm in Afghanistan.” Little research has been conducted about the prevalence of sexual violence affecting journalists in conflict zones. But in the weeks following Ms. Logan’s assault, other women recounted being harassed and assaulted while working overseas, and groups like the Committee to Project Journalists said they would revise their handbooks to better address sexual assault. Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News and the executive producer of “60 Minutes,” said that the segment about the assault on Ms. Logan would raise awareness of the issue. “There’s a code of silence about it that I think is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break,” he said. Until now the only public comment about the assault came four days after it took place, when Ms. Logan was still in the hospital. She and Mr. Fager drafted a short statement that she had “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating.” That statement, Ms. Logan said, “didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of.” The assault happened the day that Ms. Logan returned to Cairo, having left a week earlier after being detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. “The city was on fire with celebration” over Mr. Mubarak’s exit, she said, comparing it to a Super Bowl party. She and a camera crew traversed Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the celebrations, interviewing Egyptians and posing for photographs with people who wanted to be seen with an American journalist. “There was a moment that everything went wrong,” she recalled. As the cameraman, Richard Butler, was swapping out a battery, Egyptian colleagues who were accompanying the camera crew heard men nearby talking about wanting to take Ms. Logan’s pants off. She said: “Our local people with us said, ‘We’ve gotta get out of here.’ That was literally the moment the mob set on me.” Mr. Butler, Ms. Logan’s producer, Max McClellan, and two locally hired drivers were “helpless,” Mr. Fager said, “because the mob was just so powerful.” A bodyguard who had been hired to accompany the team was able to stay with Ms. Logan for a brief period of time. “For Max to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts,” Mr. Fager said. He said Ms. Logan “described how her hand was sore for days after — and the she realized it was from holding on so tight” to the bodyguard’s hand. They estimated that they were separated from her for about 25 minutes. “My clothes were torn to pieces,” Ms. Logan said. She declined to go into more detail about the assault but said: “What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.” After being rescued by a group of civilians and Egyptian soldiers, she was swiftly flown back to the United States. “She was quite traumatized, as you can imagine, for a period of time,” Mr. Fager said. Ms. Logan said she decided almost immediately that she would speak out about sexual violence both on behalf of other journalists and on behalf of “millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse.” More than a dozen journalists have been detained in Libya in the past two months, including four who were working for The Times. One of the Times journalists, Lynsey Addario, said she was repeatedly groped and harassed by her Libyan captors. For Ms. Logan, learning about Ms. Addario’s experience was a “setback” in her recovery. While Ms. Logan, CBS’s chief foreign affairs correspondent, said she would definitely return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, she said she had decided — for the moment — not to report from the Middle Eastern countries where protests were widespread. “The very nature of what we do — communicating information — is what’s undoing these regimes,” she said. “It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.” Before the assault, Ms. Logan said, she did not know about the levels of harassment and abuse that women in Egypt and other countries regularly experienced. “I would have paid more attention to it if I had had any sense of it,” she said. “When women are harassed and subjected to this in society, they’re denied an equal place in that society. Public spaces don’t belong to them. Men control it. It reaffirms the oppressive role of men in the society.” After the “60 Minutes” segment is broadcast, though, she does not intend to give other interviews on the subject. “I don’t want this to define me,” she said. She said that the kindness and support shown by Mr. Fager and others at CBS and by strangers — like the high school class in Texas and the group of women at ABC News who wrote letters to her — was a “very big part of picking myself up and restoring my dignity and my self-worth.” Among the letters she received, she said, was one from a woman who lives in Canada who was raped in the back of a taxi in Cairo in early February, amid the protests there. “That poor woman had to go into the airport begging people to help her,” Ms. Logan recalled. When she returned home, “her family told her not to talk about it.” Ms. Logan said that as she read the letter, she started to sob. “It was a reminder to me of how fortunate I was,” she said. "

4/28/2011 9:16:46 PM

4/28/2011 9:26:36 PM

This literally makes me sick to my stomach. Kudos to her for speaking out about it..

4/28/2011 9:34:11 PM

This is why I don't shed a tear when the thugs of the evil mobs are massacred by civilized leadership. Lest we forget men like Gadhafi and Mubarak were trained by the British and don't tolerate this type of behavior. Mubarak's own military rescued her, and Gadhafi keeps women free to uncover themselves and bear arms if they so desire.
I don't think anyone should doubt these mobs are the work of NGOs and terrorist organizations focused on destabilizing the region.

4/28/2011 9:52:54 PM

THATS what you got out of the text from OP?

4/28/2011 9:57:41 PM

^^i've heard a lot of dumb stuff in my day, but wow

4/28/2011 9:59:52 PM

Yes because it's a whole shitstorm over there and they put a beautiful blonde reporter in the middle of a mob of animals in the downtown square. This isn't 1776 with John Adams about to jump out and shake your hand to tell you thanks for coming to the Arab Revolution and here's a complimentary fancy hat.

These people are fucking animals; do you really think that we are welcome there or that they are our friends or that the men there who've been in power for longer than we've been alive are COMPLETELY clueless? I personally don't think we have ANY friends there and the same people we're supporting will kill us and rape us as soon as we look away.

4/28/2011 10:00:24 PM

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"I don't think anyone should doubt these mobs are the work of NGOs and terrorist organizations"

...& Iran.

4/28/2011 10:05:41 PM

i dont think the point is that we need friends. it's more important that we KNOW what's going on around the world which can only be done with journalists willing to brave the dangers of whatever region they might be in. she said herself she didnt realize how badly women were suppressed so thats just something to consider for future female reporters but by no means does it mean we shouldn't be out there reporting

4/28/2011 10:06:29 PM

[trying to imagine a role reversal]


A group of women from 20 to 40 years old grab at me and tear my clothes in pieces. They thrust themselves upon me and force me to come over and over again. They stick their fingers in my ass and they enjoy my pain. They are relentless, every stroke of my penis is more like a punch to my balls. The horror!

[Edited on April 28, 2011 at 10:08 PM. Reason : .]

4/28/2011 10:08:06 PM

^it would def be funny as hell if for one day, some crazy spell was cast that totally reversed the gender roles

4/28/2011 11:02:09 PM

lol for thinking that fancy hats were in plentiful supply during the American Revolution

also IMO what's more enticing about Lara is that she's a D-cup, but maybe the Egyptian men were also attracted to her hair color, which is unusual in that part of the world, as in most of the world

still if their culture didn't have such a fucked-up repression of sexuality, I don't think such a huge mob would have formed during that time of turmoil for the purpose of rape and sexual assault, instead sticking to fighting back at The Man and looting storefronts

[Edited on April 28, 2011 at 11:09 PM. Reason : ^Indeed, I'd love for the women to make the first move most of the time

4/28/2011 11:08:09 PM

Groping does not equal rape.

4/28/2011 11:09:13 PM

god damn why do i open ThePeter's threads. Its like a words armageddon in this bitch

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

4/28/2011 11:09:39 PM

4/28/2011 11:10:49 PM

Should of used his claws and shredded them into pieces.


Oops, wrong Logan.

4/28/2011 11:17:35 PM

I literally rape myself everynight. I mean, I rape myself with my hands tenderly. Also, external only.

4/28/2011 11:34:09 PM

Fucked up shit

[Edited on April 28, 2011 at 11:47 PM. Reason : jj]

4/28/2011 11:35:24 PM

america will no doubt respond by electing kobe bryant and mike tyson to the whitehouse

4/29/2011 8:46:12 AM

I just looked her up....she's fucking hot.

4/29/2011 8:55:03 AM

^ yeah, she really is...and smart, too

she's my celebrity crush

4/29/2011 9:05:21 AM

4/29/2011 12:01:20 PM

I cant lie


It moved.

4/29/2011 12:03:27 PM

Wow, those details are heart wrenching. I hope they all burn in hell.

I posted this in TSB 2.5 months ago when it happened:



Egyptian men in general are notorious for sexual harassment and assaults on women in public. There was a BBC article a couple of years ago which mentioned some horrible statistics on the percentage of women in Cairo who have been sexually harassed.

During the recent protests, one CNN commentator was talking about why there were no women in the streets (but there were in protests in Iran last year). He said during similar anti-government protests several years ago, women DID come out onto the streets as well, but they were groped and assaulted by the police and MUBARAK SUPPORTERS ---> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4600133.stm

Sad.

According to this video, 60% of all women face harassment DAILY in Cairo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvNoOmSUHag

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7514567.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8314091.stm

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"Being an Egyptian woman is to accept sexual harassment as daily routine, according to a recent report from the Egyptian Center for Womens Rights (ECWR). The study outlines, 60 percent of Egyptian women and 98 percent of foreign women are harassed on a daily basis. This is not a new problem. In fact, the problem has been simmering silently since the fall of 2006, when dozens of men and boys attacked and assaulted women outside a downtown Cairo cinema. In a mob style attack, the perpetrators attempted to grope and tear at any passing womans clothes in the October attack. "

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"SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN EGYPT Experienced by 98% of foreign women visitors Experienced by 83% of Egyptian women 62% of Egyptian men admitted harassing women 53% of Egyptian men blame women for 'bringing it on' Source: Egyptian Centre for Women's Rights"

These were the men the whole world was cheering for.

4/30/2011 9:59:57 AM

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"I hope they all burn in hell."

Your hopes will go unfulfilled, my son.


Anyway, the moral of this story is, "if you can't take the heat stay away from the god damned fire son."

4/30/2011 10:19:37 AM

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"I personally don't think we have ANY friends there and the same people we're supporting will kill us and rape us as soon as we look away."

I was there March 2nd-10th. You are a fucking idiot. They love Americans, and were incredibly nice and civil. I honestly think the problems of sexual assault are primarily due to ignorance. Their society (like most predominantly Muslim societies) is incredibly sexually repressed. There is no sex education in schools, no contraceptives, and no understanding of STDs.

I had a conversation with a guy who had a postgraduate degree, but was asking me if he could get aids by kissing a girl. And who was astonished that Americans wear protection commonly, and actually get tested for STDs. This from a married guy with three kids.

My fiance is blue eyed and blonde, but she wore a head scarf and long sleeves as a sign of cultural respect and we never had any problems. The cat calls were pointed towards the eurotrash wearing tank tops and mini skirts.

4/30/2011 1:45:54 PM

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"I just looked her up....she's fucking hot. ^ yeah, she really is...and smart, too she's my celebrity crush "

Not such a smart move to go to a place where 10,000 horny men were gathered with only one bodyguard.

4/30/2011 1:49:27 PM