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I have a friend who will be running jewellery making classes in Heliopolis in the near future to assist people who would like to learn to make their own jewellery. The course will be in both Arabic and English. Prices are not yet confirmed as there has been an influx in the cost of silver over the last couple of months but as soon as she releases her price list etc I will forward it on to anyone interested.
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'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
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As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery. 'They ripped off my clothes and took pictures on their cell phones as they groped and beat me': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying new details of sex attack in EgyptBy Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:32 AM on 2nd May 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories One after another, they grabbed at every part of her body
As her underwear came off, sickos started taking photographs
Lara Logan was groped all over her body and had her clothes ripped off by a baying mob in Egypt who went on to 'rape her with their hands'. The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent revealed terrifying new details of the 40 minute-long February attack in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday's 60 Minutes show.
She told how she became separated from members of her crew after someone in the frenzied 200-strong crowd shouted 'Let's take her pants off.'
Scroll down for video Terrifying ordeal: Lara Loganspoke candidly and bravely about the assault during the Egyptian uprisings, saying she was convinced she was going to die Miss Logan said: 'Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind. I mean, and it’s not one person and then it stops, it's like one person and another person and another person. And I know Ray is right there, and he's grabbing at me and screaming, "Lara hold onto me, hold onto me".' It was revealed that as she was pulled into the frenzy the camera recorded her shouting 'Stop.' It was revealed that someone in the crowd shouted out that she was an Israeli Jew, which is untrue. She said: 'My shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore. They tore the metal clips of my bra. They tore those open. And I felt that because the air, I felt the air on my chest, on my skin. And…uh I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. 'And then I felt my underwear go... and I remember looking up…when my clothes gave way I remember looking up and seeing them taking pictures with their cell phones, the flashes of their cell phone cameras.' Set upon: Lara Logan was torn away from her film crew just moments after this picture was taken in Cairo's Tahrir Square. She was subjected to a prolonged sexual assault by a terrifying mob of at least 200 men She added: 'I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the, of the sexual assault was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again. 'They were tearing my body in every direction at this point ... and they were trying to tear off chunks of my scalp.' Badly beaten, traumatised and in pain, she said she drew strength at one point in the attack by thinking of her two young children. Miss Logan said: 'It's about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. what more can they do now? They’re inside you everywhere So the only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.'
Last week she told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were.
Miss Logan, who returned to work this month, said: 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.' But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.'
The brutal assault happened on February 11, on her first day back in the city - the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell. 'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence' She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs. But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop. As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
Strong couple: Ms Logan pictured with her husband Joseph Burkett while she was pregnant. She spent weeks at home recovering with her family 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.' Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'. He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.' Miss Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand. She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' Miss Logan was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones. He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.' CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children. Anxious to get back: The foreign correspondent said she wants to return to combat zones like Afghanistan, but will avoid the Middle East Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.' Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.
It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'. Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'. She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'. While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned. Reliving the trauma: Lara Logan returned to work only two months after the sexual assault, spoke of her ordeal on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She said she is determined not to let the attack define her Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. 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.' Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing. She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there. Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.
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I read somewhere VW is Danish... hmm, is she a Danish lesbian? Do we have Sandi Toksvig posting on ES.
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whoever she is she must've pulled as it's been quiet today, I think.
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