Valuable information. Personally, I disagree with Pamela Geller about Mubarak. In power for 40 years without an election, he should have been forced from office many years before 2011. There are, after all, more interests at stake then those of the state of Israel. As much --as everyone ought to know-- as I consider myself to be pro-Israel, there had to have been some other official US policy than endless support of a dictatorial regime. Otherwise, the story about Lara Logan ought to tell us something of consequence about what is really going on in Egypt. BTW, just days before, I read a story I did not know what to do with, about a movie theater in Cairo. A large mixed crowd , viz, both men and women, mostly dressed in Western fashion, was waiting to go inside. Before they could do so, another crowd of Muslim men appeared on the scene and attacked, separating the women from the men, and raping some or all of the women. Needless to say, none of this reported in the US media. The stories about Logan do not say if she was raped. Although the word is used repeatedly the only descriptions in the text say that the men who assaulter her used their hands and ripped off her clothes. Without the least question this is inexcusable and felony criminal in character, but whether it was rape still is an open question. BR comment ============================================================ Atlas Shrugs / May 2, 2011
_Lara Logan on Egypt Rape: "For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands" "What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence." _ (http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=55664135&f=26412&u=13042656&c=4012163) (http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=55664135&f=26412&u=13042656&c=4012163) I am grateful to Ms. Logan for speaking out about the Sharia attack on her during the "celebrations" of freedom! democracy! gender apartheid! in the newly Islamicized Egypt. One can only wonder what punishment the newly formed "modesty police" would have exacted upon her. The silence of the enemedia after Logan's horror is an act of complicity. I don't know how any female reporter who remained quiet can look at herself in the mirror and not weep in shame. Obama backed this movement. Never forget that. And Mubarak, our ally for over 30 years, _faces possible execution._ (http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4012163/http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/14379 7) As for Assad's mass slaughter of his own people in Syria, Obama has no comment. CBS Reporter Recounts a ˜Merciless Assault _NY Times_ (http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4012163/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/busines s/media/29logan.html?_r=1&src=twr&pagewanted=all) April 29, 2011 _Lara Logan_ (http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4012163/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/lara_logan/index.html ?inline=nyt-per) thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that _Hosni Mubarak_ (http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4012163/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/ reference/timestopics/people/m/hosni_mubarak/index.html?inline=nyt-per) '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. [...] 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_ (http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4012163/http://topics.nytimes.co m/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/v/veterans/traumatic_brain_injury/index .html?inline=nyt-classifier) _suffered by the ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff_ (http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4012163/http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/10/24/arts/1025-WOODRUFF_index.html) 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. This is so misleading. Woodruff wasn't beaten. Woodruff was injured in a roadside explosion of an IED. That is not the equivalent of rape. 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 Protect Journalists_ (http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4012163/http://topics.nytimes.com /top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/committee_to_protect_journalists/ index.html?inline=nyt-org) said they would revise their handbooks to better address sexual assault. Why? Why has little research been done? Why hasn't the Times and NOW and all the liberal liars "researched" this they way they "researched Sarah Palin or Bush's National Service Records? These are the urbane savages. Handbook revisions - yes that will cure Islamic misogyny and gender apartheid. The left's submission knows no bounds. [...] 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_ (http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4012163/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/super _bowl/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) 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." Read the rest. As Atlas reported, though largely denied by Islamic apologists and supremacists and Jew-haters: _Lara Logan's Vicious, Violent Gang-Rape, Media's Silence ..._ (http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4012163/http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad. com/atlas_shrugs/2011/02/lara-logans-vicious-violent-gang-rape-medias-silenc esanction.html) Feb 19, 2011 ... CNN covered the faces of the barbarians who brutally beat and raped Logan here. Atlas ran the uncensored picture February 15th, here. _Egypt Army Saves CBS News' Lara Logan after Rape and Beating by ..._ (http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4012163/http://atlasshrugs2000.t ypepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/02/egypt-army-saves-cbs-news-lara-logan-after-r ape-and-beating-by-egypts-freedom-loving-protesters.html) Feb 15, 2011 ... Freedom-yearning young Egyptian role models? Not so much. CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir ... _"60 Minutes" Lara Logan was Repeatedly Raped by Egyptian Mob ..._ (http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4012163/http://atlasshrugs2000.type pad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/02/60-minutes-lara-logan-was-repeatedly-raped-by-e gyptian-mob-yelling-jew-jew.html) Feb 16, 2011 ... "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan was repeatedly sexually assaulted by thugs yelling, "Jew! Jew!" as she covered the chaotic fall of ... Rioters chant "no god but Allah" » New York Post Wednesday, February 16, 2011 "60 Minutes" Lara Logan was Repeatedly Raped by Egyptian Mob Yelling, "Jew, Jew! Jew!" "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan was repeatedly sexually assaulted by thugs yelling, "Jew! Jew!" as she covered the chaotic fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo's main square Friday, CBS and sources said yesterday. _This horrible story_ (http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/02/egypt-army-saves-cbs-news-lara-logan-after-rape-and-beating-by-egypts-fre edom-loving-protesters.html) gets worse and worse. Worse still, CBS tried to keep the whole thing quiet and was forced to get in front of the story only when it became widely known that other media outlets were on to it. Who are they covering for? And why? Because the false narrative the media is painting of what is going on in Egypt is patently false, and this brutal sex attack points to something else entirely. (http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0147e29e1210970b-pi) The NY Post is the only news outlet reporting that the Muslims raping her were shouting "Jew, Jew, Jew." Obama should make a statement addressing this horror and condemning the vile Islamic anti-semitism at the heart of Islam. _Lara Logan set upon by mob in brutal sex attack_ (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/cbs_reporter_cairo_nightmare_pXiUVvhwIDdCrbD95ybD5N) NY Post (hat tip Pamela Hall) "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan was repeatedly sexually assaulted by thugs yelling, "Jew! Jew!" as she covered the chaotic fall of Egyptian President_ Hosni Mubarak _ (http://www.nypost.com/t/Hosni_Mubarak) in Cairo's main square Friday, CBS and sources said yesterday. The TV crew with Logan, who is also the network's chief foreign correspondent, had its cameras rolling moments before she was dragged off -- and caught her on tape looking tense and trying to head away from a crowd of men behind her in Tahrir Square. _READ: BATTLE-TOUGH BEAUTY NO 'GIRLY GIRL'_ (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/battle_tough_beauty_no_wimpy_girly_FfpfAveJxIM23QKQh98MeO) "Logan was covering the jubilation . . . when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration," CBS said in a statement. "It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into a frenzy. "In the crush of the mob, [Logan] was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. "She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning," the network added. "She is currently in the hospital recovering." A network source told The Post that her attackers were screaming, "Jew! Jew!" during the assault. And the day before, Logan had told Esquire.com that Egyptian soldiers hassling her and her crew had accused them of "being Israeli spies." Logan is not Jewish. In Friday's attack, she was separated from her colleagues and attacked for between 20 to 30 minutes, The_ Wall Street Journal _ (http://www.nypost.com/t/Wall_Street_Journal) said. Her injuries were described to The Post as "serious." CBS went public with the incident only after it became clear that other media outlets were on to it, sources said. "A call came in from The [Associated Press]" seeking information, a TV-industry source told The Post. "They knew she had been attacked, and they had details. CBS decided to get in front of the story." Most network higher-ups didn't even know how brutal the sexual assault was until a few minutes before the statement went out. "We were surprised it stayed quiet" as long as it did, one source said. Another source insisted that Logan was "involved in the process" of deciding whether to make her attack public, and ultimately understood why the statement had to be released. The horrific incident came a week after the 39-year-old reporter was temporarily detained by Egyptian police amid tensions over foreign coverage of the country's growing revolution. As part of the anti-media backlash, CNN's Anderson Cooper had also been roughed up, and_ ABC _ (http://www.nypost.com/t/ABC) correspondent Brian Hartman had been threatened with beheading. "[Logan] was not in the country for long -- she'd been thrown out, if you remember -- and had just gone back in," one source said. "She had security with her, but it wasn't enough." Before the attack, Logan -- who is based in Washington, where she lives with her 2-year-old daughter and husband -- had been set to return to the States sometime over the weekend to tape a "60 Minutes" segment on Wael Ghonim. Ghonim, Google's head of marketing in the Middle East, had been briefly kidnapped after helping to organize protesters. But after she was assaulted, Logan went back to her hotel, and within two hours -- sometime late Friday and into early Saturday -- was flown out of Cairo on a chartered network jet, sources said. She wasn't taken to a hospital in Egypt because the network didn't trust local security there, sources said. And neither CBS nor Logan reported the crime to Egyptian authorities because they felt they couldn't trust them, either, the sources said. "The way things are there now, they would have ended up arresting her again," one source said. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
