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...Lara Logan doesn't quit.
The other day, I read a chronicle written by Clara Ferreira Alves about what happen to Lara Logan in Egypt.
Lara Logan is the Chief of Foreign Affairs Correspondent of CBS. This pretty South African blue eyed blonde could have been a model, but she decided to become a journalist instead. Addicted to adrenaline, she was constantly on the front line, spending a lot of time in Afghanistan, Egypt, etc. She even found love on the first one.
Last February, Logan was in the right place at the right time, covering the celebrations in Tahrir Square following Hosni Mubarak's resignation that day. But the wrong people was there.
They began to tear off her clothes and rape her with their hands, while taking photographs of her with their cellphones. They pulled her body in different directions, pulling her hair so hard she said it seemed they were trying to tear off chunks of her scalp. Believing she was dying, she was dragged along the square to where the crowd was stopped by a fence, alongside which a group of Egyptian women were camping. One woman, wearing a chador, put her arms around Logan, and the others closed ranks around her, while some men who were with the women threw water at the crowd. A group of Egyptian soldiers appeared, beat back the crowd with batons, and one of them threw Logan over his shoulder. She was flown back to the U.S. the next day, where she spent four days in hospital.
I don't know Logan, but her story (before the attack) made me admire her. If I could, I would like to thank the women that saved Lara from those monsters. Just because a woman is pretty, it doesn't mean she is "asking for it" or should be abused.
Logan won't give further interviews about the happening, as she doesn't want to be defined by it. Here, Lara will only be remembered by her courage to be in the frontline, being clear that it was even more dangerous to her than to other (usually male) journalists. Courage is the word I associate with her.
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