Lara Logan
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She attended Universite de L’Alliance Francaise, in Paris, France, and University of Natal, Durban, South Africa (1992).
In November 2001 Ms. Logan, then a correspondent for the British morning show "GMTV," managed to infiltrate the upper ranks of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, where she gained exclusive interviews at Bagram Air Base with General Babajan, a commander.
In her first major piece for 60 Minutes (aired 6 November 2005 and produced by Josh Yager), Logan examined the U.S. Army's efforts at securing the airport road in Baghdad. Her piece questioned whether the Army is in fact alienating Iraqis.
Ms. Logan, married for six years to Jason Siemon, until recently a professional basketball player in the United Kingdom, told how she had fairly begged a clerk at the Russian Embassy in London to give her an expedited visa days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Ms. Logan said that she never could have reached the upper echelons of American broadcast journalism if she didn't have tenacity, fearlessness and compassion.
Recently named chief foreign correspondent of CBS News, Lara Logan was embedded with a U.S. military unit in Ramadi on 10 March 2006 when a nearby marine was shot by a sniper. Significantly, Logan pointed her small camera at herself rather than try to capture video of the action surrounding her.
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