Kill them all

A reporter with a Texas newspaper where I worked in 1976 said her father took the family to Afghanistan a few years before when he was named to a Fulbright Fellowship medical team. The reporter and her younger sister were blonde.

"We couldn't go out of the house," she said. Afghan men threatened to stone the girls. A short time after arriving in Kabul, the girls were sent back to Texas. Otherwise, she said, they would have been killed.

Natasha Smith, British journalist, on election celebration in Cairo:

“I have been forced to leave Cairo prematurely following a horrific sexual and physical attack in Tahrir Square.

…

“Men began to rip off my clothes. I was stripped naked. Their insatiable appetite to hurt me heightened. These men, hundreds of them, had turned from humans to animals.

“Hundreds of men pulled my limbs apart and threw me around. They were scratching and clenching my breasts and forcing their fingers inside me in every possible way. So many men. All I could see was leering faces, more and more faces sneering and jeering as I was tossed around like fresh meat among starving lions.”

http://natashajsmith.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/please-god-please-make-it-stop/

CBS reporter raped in Cairo

“Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that Hosni Mubarak’s government fell in Cairo.

“Ms. Logan, a CBS News correspondent, was in the square preparing a report for ‘60 Minutes’ on Feb. 11 when the celebratory mood suddenly turned threatening. She was ripped away from her producer and bodyguard by a group of men who tore at her clothes and groped and beat her body. ‘For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands,’ Ms. Logan said in an interview with The New York Times. She estimated that the attack involved 200 to 300 men.”

“’What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.’”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/business/media/29logan.html?pagewanted=all