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In response to "Does anyone know how Lara Logan was sexually assaulted in Cairo, exactly? Some have said gang raped but I doubt the validity of that. -- nm" by Hotkiss

no details have been given, but the word "rape" has not been used.

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Feb 16 '11, 06:37

I suspect it means touching.

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the news radio here yesterday kept going back and forth between the two terms -- nm - zork Feb 16, 06:51
"a brutal and sustained sexual assault by a mob of men." -- nm - mara Feb 16, 06:48 13
- I read it as she was grabbed and touched in unwelcoming places. -- nm - Hotkiss Feb 16, 06:53 5
  - I wouldn't use the word "brutal" for that, myself, but obviously I don't know more than the Times. -- nm - mara Feb 16, 06:54 4
    - apparently she was also badly beaten, which is why she is now hospitalized. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 07:05
    - I'm sure it was a lot scarier than being groped on an Indian train (for example) -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 06:55 2
      - If I had to choose I'd probably want to be groped on a Japanese train. -- nm - zork Feb 16, 07:09
      - are we really debating whether it was really so bad? -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 07:08
- What is gang rape? -- nm - WATSON Feb 16, 06:51
- yikes -- nm - Don Homer Feb 16, 06:50 5
  - This is actually news to people? The NY Times quotes the network itself here: -- (link) - mara Feb 16, 06:51 4
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      - This was the first I heard about it (but I never listen/watch the news) except what I see on Twitter during the day or here -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 06:57
    - I don't have time to be familiar with the specifics of all news stories all the time, so it was to me fwiw. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 16, 06:54
    - (Sorry, didn't mean to sound judgemental. These were the words used in the first reports, I'm just surprised people weren't aware of them.) -- nm - mara Feb 16, 06:53

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