Nothing will keep Lara Logan from doing her job.
The CBS war correspondent who is back home with her kids and recovering after being brutally attacked last week in Egypt has vowed to return to work “within weeks.”
Logan, 39, has been candidly discussing what happened to her last Friday in Tahir Square after a mob attacked her in the hours after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned following weeks of political unrest.
“She is going to be OK,” a friend told TMZ.com.
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Friends said Logan is “unbelievably strong” and resting in her DC-area home after she became separated from her crew and was sexually assaulted and beaten, TMZ reported.
Logan is one of nearly 140 news correspondents who have been injured or killed since Jan. 30 while covering the political unrest in Egypt, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Logan, a native of South Africa, has been CBS’s chief foreign correspondent since 2006. She has regularly filed reports from war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan for “60 Minutes” and the “CBS Evening News.”
After CBS revealed Tuesday that Logan had been attacked, NYU fellow Nir Rosen, who has covered the Iraq War, made insensitive remarks on his Twitter account.
“Lara Logan had to outdo Anderson [Cooper],” Rosen tweeted, referring to the CNN correspondent, who was punched in the head while covering the demonstrations in Egypt two weeks ago.
Rosen has since apologized and resigned from the university’s Center on Law and Security.
With Reuters