Lara Logan, CBS foreign correspondent, has revealed that a mystery dressed in black religious robes helped her from the mob of men who had raped her at the Tahrir Square in Cairo.
Logan broke her silence to "60 Minutes," recounting all the details that she can still remember during that unfortunate day of Feb. 11, when nearly 100,000 people gathered at Cairo's Tahrir Square to celebrate the descent of the Hosni Mubarak dictatorship.
The CBS correspondent revealed a mob sexually assaulted her during the event, grabbing her from all directions. "Suddenly, before I even know what's happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind."
Then, Lara Logan told Scott Pelley of "60 Minutes" things began to take a turn to the worse as the mob started to act more aggressive.
"I think my shirt, my sweater was torn off completely. My shirt was around my neck. I felt the moment that my bra tore," Lara said. "And I felt them tear out, they literally just tore my pants to shreds. ... I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things, because I couldn't even feel that. Because I think of the sexual assault, was all I could feel, was their hands raping me over and over and over again."
Lara Logan said she did manage to fight and struggle from the hands of the aggressive men for almost 25 minutes, but she never thought that she would live.
"I was in no doubt in my mind that I was in the process of dying," Logan revealed, adding that it was simply the mental image of her two kids in her Washington home that gave her hope and strength to persevere on.
Surprisingly, Lara said that a mystery woman, who was dressed in black religious robes from head to toe helped her from the mob.
"Just her eyes, I remember [I could see] just her eyes," Logan said. "She put her arms around me. And oh my God, I can't tell you what that moment was like for me. I wasn't safe yet, because the mob was still trying to get at me. But now it wasn't just about me anymore."
The 39-year-old reporter quipped, "It was about their women and that was what saved me, I think."
In a different account, she told the Los Angeles Times that she was only rescued after a group of local women led 20 Egyptian soldiers to where she was.
After surviving the horrifying incident, Logan was transported back to Washington by CBS, and spent at least four days in a hospital, where she was treated for her wounds, bruises, cuts, and emotional tearing. After which, she was taken to her home, where she spent the rest of the recovery period with her husband and kids.
"I felt like I had been given a second chance that I didn't deserve," she said. "I came so close to leaving them, to abandoning them."
At the end of the interview, Lara Logan said that this is her way of helping the battle against sex assaults on female journalists.
Today, Logan said that she has already agreed to fly back to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but not in Middle Eastern countries, where ongoing widespread protests abound.
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