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Attack on Reporter Highlights Mideast Threat

CBS News correspondent Lara Logan “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating” on Feb. 11 in Egypt, according to a network statement. The incident took place as Logan was covering celebrations in Tahrir Square for “60 Minutes” shortly after the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Logan and her security team “were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration.

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What Happened to King Tut’s Statue?

A  full inventory of the Egyptian Museum has found that looters escaped with 18 items during the anti-government unrest, including two gilded wooden statues of famed boy king Tutankhamun, the antiquities chief said Sunday.  The 18-day uprising that forced out President Hosni Mubarak engulfed the areas around the museum, on the edge of Cairo’s Tahrir Square. On Jan. 28, as protesters clashed with police early on in the turmoil and burned down the adjacent headquarters of Mubarak’s ruling party, a handful of looters climbed a fire escape to the museum roof and lowered themselves on ropes from a glass-paneled ceiling onto the museum’s top floor. Read entire article at: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02/13/items-missing-egyptian-museum-unrest-948472917/

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