When news of her difficulties [a] in Egypt surfaced a few months ago, some folk insisted, without any direct quotes or sources, that she had been raped. As in the classic definition.
The official statements from CBS used the term "sexual assault". She's just gone public in this coming weekend's "Sixty Minutes", with a pre-interview in the NY Times this afternoon: [NY Times] "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." [b] - I'll let the Usual Propagandists fight the "is this a rape" battle. My attitude is simply that she was viciously attacked, and making the claim that one type of such is more evil than another diminishes the basic concept. [a] I was trying to think of a non-loaded but adequately descriptive term for the event. Don't read anything else into this... [b] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/business/media/29logan.html [d] [c] while the crowd may have numbered 200 to 300, I find it quite unlikely that such a large group actually attacked her. It just doesn't work out that way. [d] you all are using https for the NY Times, right? Check out the "https everywhere" Firefox Addon from the EFF [e] [e] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key [email protected] [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en.
