Unsettling New Details Emerge From Lara Logan Attack In Tahrir Square
Scary new details have emerged about the attack upon CBS News reporter Lara Logan in Tahrir Square in the hours that followed Hosni Mubarak‘s resignation as president of Egypt. The attack occurred at the hands of jubilant celebrators of the Egyptian Uprising that turned very ugly towards Logan and sent her to a U.S. hospital for five days.
According to a report from the Daily Mail:
The 39-year-old foreign correspondent for CBS News show 60 Minutes was separated from her film crew in Cairo on February 11 and 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.
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.’
The report suggests that the reason behind the attack on Logan was in part reports that came from Egyptian state run media that claimed foreign journalists covering the Egyptian revolution were Israeli spies. The article claims that Logan’s attackers had labeled her a spy and were chanting ‘Israeli’ and ‘Jew’ as they beat her.
(H/T Gawker)
