| Friday,
February 18, 2011 Here comes the Ayotollah
Jerry,
Just saw thsarticle about a Muslim Cleric who has been
banned from leading Friday Prayers for thirty years will now be allowed to
do so. I don't know enough about him to make a prediction. However, the
parallels are ominous.
Perhaps the Mameluks still govern Egypt and will
continue to do so. However there is no guarantee that the Mameluks will not
adopt an Islamisist rather than secular agenda.
Jim Crawford
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Qaradawi Returns to Egypt
http://www.rightsidenews.com/
2011021712862/world/terrorism/
qaradawis-ominous-return-to-egypt.html
http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/
2011/02/egypt-qaradawi-worlds-leading-islamist.html
"Let history show that neither the New York Times
nor the Washington Post reported on the return of the world's single most
important Islamic cleric to Cairo to begin what he hopes to be the
transformation of Egypt into a revolutionary anti-American state."
-- "The past, while much studied, is little read." -
M.M.
"In the first and in the final analysis, so-called
multiculturalists are simply Western radicals, in the Western radical
tradition, with the most imperial, dogmatic, and absolutist aspirations of
all." - Alan Charles Kors
-- "The past, while much studied, is little read." -
M.M.
"In the first and in the final analysis, so-called
multiculturalists are simply Western radicals, in the Western radical
tradition, with the most imperial, dogmatic, and absolutist aspirations of
all." - Alan Charles Kors
James
Think of it as democracy in action.
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Thursday essay
Jerry,
There are several thoughts stimulated by your essay
today that are worth considering.
1. One factor to be considered is that, as the amount
of information increases, the time require to assimilate it will also
increase. More people are spending more time assimilating more information
these days (maybe not always effectively) just in order to stay on top of
their jobs. (This is what Mr. Heinlein called "the crisis of the librarians.
In the 50's, if I recall, but it is hardly surprising that he would be ahead
of the curve on this one.)
2. This then leads to what I've called "the scariest
fact in engineering." Consider a consolidated development project involving
N people. Each person is capable of producing an amount of output, call it
"P," for each full worday. Each person also spend some amount of time, call
the average "f", coordinating with and/or reviewing each full workday's
output from each of the other people on the project. If we calibrate "P" as
8 work hours of production per workday, the total effort to produce one
fully coordinated workday of effort from every project member is thus:
W = NP + N(N-1)f = NP (1+(N-1)(f/P))
The time required to produce N workdays of individual
productivity is thus:
T = W/NP = 1 + (N-1)(f/P)
As an illustration, assume an average of six minutes
reviewing each additional person's work product; hence,
f/P = 6 minutes / 8 hours = 1/80.
Thus:
If N = 81, it takes two days for each person to
generate one day's worth of original product If N = 321, it takes five days
(one week) for each person to generate one day's worth of original product
If N = 1521, it takes twenty work days (one MONTH) for each person to
generate one day's worth of original product.
Alternatively, this is viewed as a tax on individual
productivity. In any work day, each person is capable of performing
K = (P + (N-1)f)/P
work days of productive output; hence individual
productivity is decreased by 1/T.
Note that this doesn't apply to assembly line
production line work, but it does apply to large-scale engineering projects.
3. As the number of requirements increase, there is a
further drag on productivity that is predictable. This is true whether the
requirements are technical (e.g. the product has to meet certain reliability
standards), social (either formal or informal training is required to
complete part of the work), or bureaucratic (adding unnecessary meetings,
technical requirements, training requirements, mentoring requirements,
regulatory reporting burdens, or other)
4. The "job" of program management / systems
engineering is to minimize f/P without compromising quality. That's it. of
course, it's a big job.
This has some interplay with productivity on big
projects, which is why I was reminded of it in consideration of today's
essay.
Jim
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Social Security trust fund made simple
Dr. Pournelle,
You have recently pointed out that Social Security is
broke. Yet, it is reported that the "trust fund" will not be completely
depleted for a number of years. I am sure that you and many of your readers
understand the subterfuge, but it may be worth using your forum to lay it
out, plain and simple.
Social Security taxes are collected by the federal
government. The government pays the beneficiaries from these taxes. The
surplus, if any, is invested in special government-issued bonds. This is the
simple truth.
This is also where the obfuscation begins (OK, the
"employer contribution" is an obfuscation too, but I digress). The
government is both the buyer AND seller of these bonds. The effect is
exactly the same as if I try to loan myself my paycheck. The government and
I both spend the money, and the "loan" is meaningless.
Both parties have indulged in this charade, because
for most of the history of the program, SS has collected money faster than
it has had to pay it out. The surplus has been used to fund other government
programs. Washington politicians loved it, because they could have it both
ways. They could both spend and "invest" the same money! However, they can
only keep up the illusion as long as the money comes in faster than it goes
out.
The time of SS surpluses under the current scheme has
come to an end, as the demographics of an aging population dictate it must.
To successfully deal with this, it is essential to understand that there are
no real assets in the SS "trust fund." All talk about how the fund will "run
out" sometime in the future is just blather. The time is now, the Washington
pols know it, and they are desperately trying to spin the story.
Steve Chu
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Apple and in App Purchases
Jerry,
How do you spell Class Action?
Until this week anyone who purchased an iPad had the
expectation that the Kindle App and others would work in a ceratin way when
making purchases and that Apple did not have any influence over pticing.
If Apple goes ahead as reported, the value of my iPad
will be reduced and the prices that I pay for vontent may increase.
Bob Holmes
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Now, I have seen it all.
The young man in question deserves tremendous credit
for maintaining his honor and integrity in such a bizarre, high-pressure
situation:
<http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/
20110217/SPORTS0810/110217008/
Wrestler-decides-not-face-female-opponent?
odyssey=mod|mostview>
-- Roland Dobbins
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Subject: Dr Hassan
Jerry,
Reading your comments about him reminded me why
Officers should always be armed. They are responsible for enforcing
discipline. But not, apparently, in our Army.
An old soldier
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Murphy's Law: Storm Troopers Are Not A Luxury,
Jerry
Says here, “A major reason for the inability of the
recently deposed Egyptian dictatorship to suppress anti-government
demonstrations was the lack of a large, loyal and reliable security force:”
http://www.strategypage.com
/htmw/htmurph/articles/20110216.aspx
“Not having such a force handy was unthinkable for any
security conscious dictator. For example, in Iraq, Saddam Hussein had his
Republican Guard, . . . who were, above all, loyal to Saddam. All other
successful dictatorships have similar forces. Russia had the KGB, . . .
trained and equipped to deal with rebellions by the population, or the armed
forces. Iran has a similar force, the Revolutionary Guard . . . During World
War II, Adolf Hitler had the SS, Gestapo and his private army, the Waffen
SS.”
“Former Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak got lazy and
greedy by filling his "regime maintenance" forces with conscripts (as
troops) and recent college graduates (as officers). Theses security forces .
. . were more loyal to the people than to the small group of corrupt
politicians running the country.”
“The only people who were loyal to Mubarak were the
most senior officers (active or retired) who were allowed a share of the
national wealth being stolen by Mubarak, his family and key allies in the
business world. By not spreading the largess around, Mubarak insured that he
would be unprotected when a popular uprising got started.
“Dictators everywhere are noting what happened in
Tunisia and Egypt, and what did not happen in other nations undergoing
popular uprisings. Expect to see some reorganizations, and more attention
being paid to having a reliable KGB, Republican Guard, Waffen SS or
Revolutionary Guard when you really need it.”
Ah, the lessons re-learned.
Ed
Septimius Severus, having found the dread secret
that emperors could be made in places other than Rome, abolished the
Praetorian Guard which had been accustomed to auctioning off the Empire
after the death of the last Good Emperor.
As Talleyrand told Napoleon, you can do anything
with a bayonet except sit upon it; and as Ortega observed you must
maintain the loyalty of your Janissaries whatever else you do. Maintaining
the loyalty does not necessarily translate into having the good will or
listening to the views, as the Korean Dynasty has found. You can do a lot
with a Party Structure, as the current Chinese dynasty has found, even
with such a large and important organization as the People's Liberation
Army. What we thought we knew of the secrets of maintaining tyranny is
being challenged.
Note that the KGB and the Party were the
political elements in the USSR; the Army was actually respected, and
became decisive when it abandoned the government and took Yeltsin's side.
Precisely because it was not political, the Army of the USSR lost out in
the subsequent power struggles, and the KGB, which was the only
organization that actually knew the economic truths of the country, came
out on top when Party/Nomenklatura control collapsed.
Good soldiers do not make good butchers, nor do
they make good politicians. Of course many places no longer need good
soldiers because they are not threatened by nations with Good Soldiers. In
the Middle East, there were wars until Sadat and Mubarak; after that,
Egypt did not need good soldiers, for they were not threatened by anyone
with a good army. Israel gave Sinai back and was not threatening to take
Sharm El Sheikh again. The Egyptian Army turned it attention inward, with
what effect and result we are no longer sure: the concepts of military
honor, what makes up a "timocracy" in the old Aristotelian classification,
may yet survive there, but one of the saving graces of an army, that it is
led by officers who once survived leadership in the field, is lacking as
Mubarak's generation dies.
Note that the Gestapo was never a military
organization; and while the Waffen SS was in theory a Party Army, the
relations between Party and Army were strained. At the Bulge the SS showed
it had overcome the inhibitions of the old Wehrmacht sense of military
honor; but it did not win, and Peiper was not thought of as a hero, even
by his own men. But there was no serious German resistance movement, nor
by the Wehrmacht until Adler. The SS was essential to Hitler's control of
the Party by eliminating the SA; its reward was the formation of Waffen SS
units and officers with ranks similar to the old Wehrmacht. But that's
another story.
Ortega's observation was that rule by Janissaries
required that the ruler pay some attention to the opinions of the
Janissaries. It is in my judgment a partial truth: in North Korea, it is
not clear who the Janissaries are, and in China the Party structure is the
principal means of control. In the old USSR the balance was among Army,
Party/Nomenklatura, and the KGB which had its own nomenklatura, and which
had no intention of letting the Party have total control or allowing
another Stalin. Do note that many KGB operatives considered themselves the
real patriots of Russia.
It is possible that social networks and the
Internet have changed things yet again. Alas, the deficiencies in the US
intelligence apparatus have kept many of our political leaders in the dark
Study of history is not a popular subject among politicians to begin
with...
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The following is long, but it has to be to make
its point. Those uninterested in the Lara Logan affair can
skip to here.
Jerry:
You write, "Why is the American press minimizing the
sexual assault on Lara Logan
<http://pournelle.com/view/2011/Q1/view662.html#mob>
by the victory celebrants in Cairo? This morning's papers have no additional
information other than that it was a "frenzy"."
So, I went to Factiva (the Dow Jones/Reuters newspaper
and magazine database, available through my local library system), searched
for "Lara Logan," and can find stories about the assault today, 2/16, from
the following sources:
AP Reuters ABC News (Good Morning America) The Hotline
(newsletter aimed at journalists) NPR's Talk of the Nation USA Today NBC
News New York Post CNN's American Morning Washington Post New York Daily
News Wall Street Journal New York Times
There are others, that's just a quick sample. And that
leaves out international sources -- the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Times,
the International Herald Tribune, etc. -- because you specifically asked
about American ones.
Many of the stories mention how Mr. Obama called Ms.
Logan today.
So, um... Just how does broad coverage in print, TV,
and radio constitute "minimizing" a story?
-- Hal
==
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:32 PM,
Jerry Pournelle <jerryp@jerrypournelle.com> wrote:
Come now. There is not a word on who
done what to whom, and hasn't been since it happened. If it had been the
secret police we would know.
What is this random group of 200
men? Is there an investigation? Is anyone under arrest? Imagine this
happening anywhere else
Jerry Pournelle Chaos Manor
===-
Well, since it seems you're designating me your
research assistant, here's a sampling of the 289 articles/pieces listed on
Factiva for the string, "lara logan AND assault" (N.B.: No, not all of your
questions have been answered. I do note, though, that a) they're being
asked, and b) you do not seem to be the only one wanting progress on getting
those answers.)
*^*^*^*^*
From today's (2/17) press gaggle at State (again, by
way of Factiva):
QUESTION: Yeah, Mark, with respect to our colleague,
Lara Logan, do you have any indications that the Egyptian – that Egyptian
authorities are investigating this horrific incident that happened in Cairo?
MR. TONER: That’s a fair question, and it indeed was a
horrific incident. I will reach out to our Embassy in Cairo and find out
what the status of that is.
QUESTION: And do you know specifically – I mean, what
elements of the U.S. Government have, at this stage, asked for, in this
specific case, an investigation or an examination or getting to the bottom
of this? Has anyone in the U.S. Government?
MR. TONER: I’m sorry, into her --
QUESTION: Has the Secretary or has the U.S. Government
asked --
MR. TONER: I know the Secretary is obviously aware of
the case and very concerned by it. Obviously, all of us are troubled by the
incident. And I believe our Embassy has reached out to Egyptian authorities.
Obviously, the safety and well-being of journalists has been, throughout
this entire situation in Egypt, this entire process has been of paramount
importance to us. We have engaged with the Egyptian Government and on
multiple cases, we’ve tracked the whereabouts and safety of journalists
throughout. As to this specific case, I’ll try to find out more information
about it.
QUESTION: Do you know, when did the U.S. Government
become aware of this?
MR. TONER: I don’t have all the details. I’ll have to
find out more. I apologize; I just don’t know the tick tock of it.
QUESTION: Can you explain to me why you would treat
this any differently than – this specific case any differently than the case
of – other cases of journalists, even those who are lowly enough not to
appear on – who don’t --
MR. TONER: I’m not trying to --
QUESTION: I’m just trying to – because your initial
answer seemed to suggest that this case was getting some specific extra
attention.
MR. TONER: Well --
QUESTION: And I’m curious as to why it would when --
MR. TONER: I am aware that people here in the building
are concerned by this particular case and --
QUESTION: Over other cases?
MR. TONER: -- the allegations that she made that what
transpired is pretty egregious. But that said, we take the cases of all
journalists who have been physically or mentally abused while trying to
carry out their work quite seriously.
*^*^*
Newscast: Lara Logan back in the United States after
being attacked in Egypt 487 words 17 February 2011 NBC News: Today <http://global.factiva.com.ezproxy.kcls.org/ha/default.aspx>
TODA English (c) Copyright 2011, NBC Universal Inc. All Rights Reserved.
ANN CURRY, anchor:
An update now on Lara Logan, the CBS reporter attacked
while covering the revolution in Egypt. TODAY national correspondent Amy
Robach has details now.
Hey, Amy. Good morning. What more can you tell us?
AMY ROBACH reporting:
Good morning, Ann. Lara Logan, we know, flew back to
the United States on Saturday, that was the day after the attack took place.
She was treated in a hospital before just recently being released to her
family. The mother of two we now know is home in Washington, DC, where she
continues to recover.
The latest news on Lara Logan was reported by CBS News
Wednesday night.
Ms. KATIE COURIC: (From "The CBS Evening News") We're
happy to report she's out of the hospital now, continuing her recovery at
home. She received a call today from President Obama, who expressed his
concern.
ROBACH: Logan was in Cairo Friday to report on the
resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, but became separated from her crew
and was surrounded by a mob of more than 200. This photo released by CBS was
taken the moment before what CBS News has described as a brutal and
sustained sexual assault and beating. According to the Committee to Protect
Foreign Journalists, at least 140 reporters have been attacked while
covering the protests in Egypt. This was not the first difficulty Logan
experienced in Egypt; one week before the attack, Logan and her colleagues
were detained by Egyptian security forces and endured a long interrogation
before being expelled from the country. But Logan managed to return, telling
Charlie Rose before she went back she felt compelled to go again.
Ms. LARA LOGAN: (From Charlie Rose interview)
Fundamentally, it's in my blood to be there.
Ms. JUDITH MATLOFF (Columbia School of Journalism):
You don't want people to at all question your ability to carry out what's
been considered a man's job for very long.
ROBACH: Judith Matloff is a journalism professor who
used to work with Logan. She says attacks against women reporting in foreign
countries often go unreported.
Ms. MATLOFF: Women are worried that if their news
editors are concerned that they might, too, suffered an attack like this
they might now send them into dangerous assignments.
ROBACH: Logan has covered war zones for two decades.
The married mother of two young children has spoken openly on CBS News' Web
site about the difficulty of working in dangerous environments.
Ms. LOGAN: I have a sense of responsibility and a
sense of duty and I believe that this is something that I was meant to do.
ROBACH: Experts tell us as demonstrations continue to
arise in the Middle East so could the opportunity for attacks on Western
journalists like the ones we've seen in recent days, Ann.
CURRY: All right. Thanks so much, Amy.
*^*^*^*
CBS REPORTER'S CAIRO NIGHTMARE - LARA LOGAN SET UPON
BY MOB IN BRUTAL SEX ATTACK MICHAEL SHAIN, DON KAPLAN and KATE SHEEHY 684
words 16 February 2011 New York Post <http://global.factiva.com.ezproxy.kcls.org/ha/default.aspx>
NYPO 5 English (c) 2011 N.Y.P. Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
"60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan was repeatedly
sexually assaulted by thugs yelling, "Jew! Jew!" as she covered the chaotic
fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo's main square Friday, CBS
and sources said yesterday.
The TV crew with Logan, who is also the network's
chief foreign correspondent, had its cameras rolling moments before she was
dragged off - and caught her on tape looking tense and trying to head away
from a crowd of men behind her in Tahrir Square.
"Logan was covering the jubilation . . . when she and
her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst
the celebration," CBS said in a statement.
"It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into a
frenzy.
"In the crush of the mob, [Logan] was separated from
her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual
assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated
20 Egyptian soldiers.
"She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her
hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next
morning," the network added. "She is currently in the hospital recovering."
A network source told The Post that her attackers were screaming, "Jew!
Jew!" during the assault. And the day before, Logan had told Esquire.com
that Egyptian soldiers hassling her and her crew had accused them of "being
Israeli spies." Logan is not Jewish.
In Friday's attack, she was separated from her
colleagues and attacked for between 20 to 30 minutes, TheWall Street Journal
said.
Her injuries were described to The Post as "serious."
CBS went public with the incident only after it became clear that other
media outlets were on to it, sources said.
"A call came in from The [Associated Press]" seeking
information, a TV-industry source told The Post. "They knew she had been
attacked, and they had details. CBS decided to get in front of the story."
Most network higher-ups didn't even know how brutal the sexual assault was
until a few minutes before the statement went out.
"We were surprised it stayed quiet" as long as it did,
one source said.
Another source insisted that Logan was "involved in
the process" of deciding whether to make her attack public, and ultimately
understood why the statement had to be released.
The horrific incident came a week after the
39-year-old reporter was temporarily detained by Egyptian police amid
tensions over foreign coverage of the country's growing revolution.
As part of the anti-media backlash, CNN's Anderson
Cooper had also been roughed up, and ABC correspondent Brian Hartman had
been threatened with beheading.
"[Logan] was not in the country for long - she'd been
thrown out, if you remember - and had just gone back in," one source said.
"She had security with her, but it wasn't enough."
Before the attack, Logan - who is based in Washington, where she lives with
her 2-year-old daughter and husband - had been set to return to the States
sometime over the weekend to tape a "60 Minutes" segment on Wael Ghonim.
Ghonim, Google <http://global.factiva.com.ezproxy.kcls.org/ha/default.aspx>
's head of marketing in the Middle East, had been briefly kidnapped after
helping to organize protesters.
But after she was assaulted, Logan went back to her
hotel, and within two hours - sometime late Friday and into early Saturday -
was flown out of Cairo on a chartered network jet, sources said.
She wasn't taken to a hospital in Egypt because the
network didn't trust local security there, sources said.
And neither CBS nor Logan reported the crime to
Egyptian authorities because they felt they couldn't trust them, either, the
sources said. "The way things are there now, they would have ended up
arresting her again," one source said.
DANGEROUS WORK: Lara Logan had been ousted from Egypt
by authorities before returning last week - only to be sexually assaulted by
beasts in Cairo. [CBS News]
*^*^*^*
CBS correspondent recovers at home after attack
ATTACKED REPORTER From news services 177 words 17 February 2011 St. Louis
Post-Dispatch <http://global.factiva.com.ezproxy.kcls.org/ha/default.aspx>
SLMO Third Edition A23 English Copyright 2011, St. Louis Post-Dispatch. All
Rights Reserved.
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Lara Logan, the CBS news correspondent who was
sexually assaulted in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, was released from a
U.S. hospital and was recovering Wednesday in her Washington area home, the
network announced.
President Barack Obama spoke with Logan on the
telephone Wednesday. Details of the conversation were not shared.
An Egyptian security official said he was unaware of
any investigation into the attack on Logan. He noted that police were pulled
off the streets on Jan. 28, three days after the outbreak of the protests,
and haven't returned, with the exception of traffic police.
Sexual harassment is widespread in Egypt, and even
women covered up by veils and long robes in strict Islamic dress say they
are not immune.
A 2008 survey by the Egyptian Center for Women's
Rights found that 83 percent of Egyptian women and 98 percent of foreign
women in Cairo said they had been harassed - while 62 percent of men
admitted to harassing.
*^*^*^*
HUNT FOR CAIRO MANIACS - O DEMANDS EGYPT ROUND UP THE
THUGS WHO BRUTALIZED LARA GEOFF EARLE in Washington, DC, and JEANE MacINTOSH
and BOB FREDERICKS in New York 711 words 17 February 2011 New York Post <http://global.factiva.com.ezproxy.kcls.org/ha/default.aspx>
NYPO 4 English (c) 2011 N.Y.P. Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
The White House yesterday demanded the Egyptian
government round up and bring to justice the thugs who brutalized CBS
foreign correspondent Lara Logan in Cairo's main square.
"We believe that those responsible for these acts need
to be held accountable," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said of the
prolonged beating and sexual assault on Logan by members of a 200-strong
mob.
And a State Department spokeswoman said the United
States expects an "investigation and accountability for anyone involved in
violence during the demonstrations."
"We've raised it publicly and privately," spokeswoman
Leslie Phillips said.
The call for justice came as a concerned President
Obama phoned the recuperating "60 Minutes" reporter.
"The president called her at her home around midday,"
a Logan family friend told The Post.
Obama asked the veteran war reporter about her
condition and expressed his concern, the friend said.
In New York, a spokeswoman for the Egyptian Mission
decried the attack and said the turmoil-wracked Arab state would investigate
all attacks on journalists covering demonstrations before and after the fall
of Hosni Mubarak last Friday.
"What happened to Miss Logan is by all means
unacceptable and shameful," said spokeswoman Nihal Saad.
Yesterday, Logan, 39, was home in Washington with her
husband, Joseph Burkett, and two children. A deliveryman brought flowers to
the couple's fieldstone-and-brick Tudor-style home.
Inside, Logan also huddled with a senior colleague and
pal, Kelli Halyard, head of CBS communications.
Halyard said neither Logan nor Burkett was ready to
talk publicly.
Friends said she wants to return to work, but won't be
coming back anytime soon after suffering what the network called "serious"
internal injuries in the ugly Feb. 11 incident, which CBS revealed Tuesday.
"She has no idea how long this is going to take," a
source said.
Logan and her crew were near Tahrir Square Friday, the
day Egyptian strongman Mubarak stepped down, when a mob of jeering, leering
men surrounded them. Their cameras continued rolling, capturing a
tense-looking Logan trying to move away before she was grabbed and dragged
off.
"She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and
sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women
and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers," CBS said in a statement.
"She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her
hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next
morning," the network added.
A CBS colleague told The Post, "Every day is a
struggle [for her]."
Meanwhile, left-wing journalist Nir Rosen resigned as
a fellow at New York University in the wake of Twitter comments he made
belittling Logan after learning of the attack.
"Jesus Christ, at a moment when she is going to become
a martyr and glorified we should at least remember her role as a major war
monger," Rosen tweeted Monday.
In an e-mail exchange with The Post, Rosen apologized.
"It is never OK for a man to mock the sexual abuse or
humiliation of women," he said. "If I saw her I would try to find a way to
apologize."
A native of South Africa, Logan has been CBS's chief
foreign correspondent since 2006 and has regularly filed reports from Iraq,
Afghanistan and other hot spots for "60 Minutes" and the "CBS Evening News."
The nightmarish attack occurred a week after she was
detained by Egyptian police amid tensions over foreign coverage of the
revolution.
As part of the anti-media backlash, CNN's Anderson
Cooper had been beaten up and ABC correspondent Brian Hartman threatened
with beheading. In Bahrain today, ABC News reporter Miguel Marquez was
beaten during a military crackdown on deadly protests.
Logan had taken precautions, bringing security with
her, after her earlier troubles, "but it wasn't enough," a network source
told The Post.
Additional reporting by Michael Shain in New York and
Jennifer Fermino in Washington, DC
-FLASHBACK: How The Post reported the assault in
Egypt. -GET WELL: CBS foreign correspondent Lara Logan (above) is
recuperating with family at her home in Washington, DC. [Craig Blankenhorn/CBS]
*^*^*^*
EndLogan
An impressive collection, yet I still have the
impression that there is some reason why this is not a bigger story. I
have no idea of who the 200 men were, or why they formed the intent to
assault Miss Logan. I am fairly sure they weren't Mubarak holdouts. The
fact that they shouted "Jew! Jew!" is informative, but where did they get
the idea and decide to act? I just think there is more to the story, and a
good news editor would know that, yet I don't see a lot of activity in
finding it. Imagine if something like this had happened at a tea party! It
would be bigger than the Tucson shooting.
But I agree, you have found there is more
coverage than I had thought. Perhaps I just don't pay enough attention to
multiple sources. There is, after all, only me here...
Thanks, and all best wishes.
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