CBS released this photo of Logan "moments before she was assaulted." In her final public comments before the incident, she told Esquire.com that "I haven't had a chance to even address" traveling without private security.

Breaking this evening is the upsetting news that CBS News correspondent Lara Logan had been sexually assaulted in Egypt while covering President Mubarak's resignation last weekend. The assault reportedly took place on February 11 in Cairo, where she "suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating," according to CBS. Brian Stelter at the New York Times reports that in the midst of an estimated 200-person crowd, Logan was dragged into a "dangerous element" and was eventually "saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers." This was the day she arrived in Egypt, one week after being detained, accused of being an Israeli spy, and then told to leave the country.

Esquire.com was one of two interviews Logan conducted between her two trips (the other was a brief segment on Charlie Rose's show). The Politics Blog spoke with Logan as she was boarding her flight to Cairo on Thursday, February 10, one day before the assault took place. They were, in a sense, her last public words before the alleged assault — Logan didn't get a chance to file from Cairo before the incident in question took place. There are a few remainders from the interview — details about her second trip to Cairo — we've culled from the transcript of that interview in light of today's news.

On returning to Egypt a week after being detained and expelled: "Part of me feels like it's really insane, but the other part of me made a very considered, rational decision with my teammates."

On whom she was traveling with: "I'm not the only one going back, my producer is coming with me. And with my husband. We made this decision together. And with my boss."

On the precautions they'd be taking: "We've made sure that the Egyptian embassy in the U.S. knows we're going. They're fully aware of it. They know what our purpose is, that we're journalists. We've made every effort to try and get media accreditation before we left, but the embassy said because of the backup they couldn't [get it to us], so they're trying to help us on the ground. There are no surprises here this time. It is a better plan. Again, it's not foolproof, you know?"

On worrying about a repeat scenario: "Sure, of course you can never discount [that], it would be foolish to discount that possibility."

On traveling with private security: "No. We are not. It's been so chaotic. I think we do have a security person on with us now, on our team, but I haven't had a chance to even address that."

On her threshold for danger this time: "Last time we had to leave because the problem we had was that they had photographed us, they were tracking us, they said they would find us wherever we went and we had no paperwork. This time, we are going in to interview the head of the ruling party, these people have said they will do their utmost to assist us and to protect us. They're not giving any guarantees, but definitely that helps, since the current regime is still in power. [As long as] the ruling party is still the ruling power, then that stands for something. If that's no longer the case by the time we land, if they're out, then it's not an issue anymore. We're not pretending to be tourists and we're not saying we're not journalists, that we're not saying we're not there to cover the protests. It's very obvious why we're there, and we can say we know the Egyptian government knows why we're there, and we can say we have names and numbers we can give them of people they can call."

The rest of Esquire.com's interview with Lara Logan is on The Politics Blog. Logan has since returned to America, and is currently in a hospital recovering. We wish her a speedy recovery.

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