Lara Logan: The Real Lara Croft?

Meet award-winning journalist Lara Logan, who has been reporting from war zones for the past 15 years. Fictional woman Lara Croft intentionally puts herself in dangerous situations to save the world. Real woman Lara Logan also puts herself in dangerous situations, but to share the world, not to save it. That is until she and soldiers with the 82nd Airborne literally stumbled upon an orphanage in Iraq. They just happened to peer over a wall. What they saw on the other side was like nothing they had previously seen during their time in Iraq. Lara was determined to share the horrific conditions of an orphanage for boys with special needs and their rescue by these soldiers. So how does Lara Live in Love? Through her dedication to the truth - in war, danger, terror, and the hope that exists and persists in the midst of it all.

Lara was named one of Glamour Magazines 2007 Women of the Year. The publication's article is below.

The Truth Teller
Lara Logan, war correspondent

“When we both covered the war between Israel and Hezbollah, I’d get to the scene of an attack, and invariably Lara would already be there. ‘What took you so long?’ she’d ask.” —Anderson Cooper, anchor of Anderson Cooper 360° on CNN and host of Planet in Peril, just out on DVD
By Susan Dominus

Pinned down during an attack by insurgents in Ramadi, Iraq, Lara Logan asked herself two questions as bullets whizzed by her head: “Where can I get the best pictures?” and “Where can I stay alive?” Logan, 36, chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, has been having those thoughts—in that order—ever since she was a 17-year-old reporter in her native South Africa. On the job, she’s dodged gunfire everywhere from Angola to Afghanistan and in 2003 covered the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, where she’s been almost nonstop ever since, even as the number of foreign reporters there has dwindled.
A bundle of energy who gets by on “three or four hours of sleep a night,” Snickers and Red Bull, Logan is fueled by one urgent mission: to tell it like it is. “If journalists weren’t in Iraq, any politician could say what he liked and no one would be the wiser,” she says. During the past year, the deadliest since the invasion, she saved children’s lives with her expose of horrific abuse at an Iraqi orphanage. “Lara shoots video herself when she doesn’t want to put the crew at risk,” says CBS anchor Katie Couric. Says Logan: “How can you show people reality if you don’t go see it yourself?” Bearing personal witness to “the cruel reality” of war is, she says, “what I was put on earth to do.”

For Lara’s reports and photographs about the children and their rescue soldiers, follow this link, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/18/notebook/main2946477.shtml