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Lara Logan (born March 29, 1971 in South AfricaLara Logan is a television journalist for CBS News in the United States.

She attended Universite de L’Alliance Francaise, in Paris, France, and University of Natal, Durban, South Africa (1992).

In her first major piece for 60 Minutes (aired 6 November 2005 and produced by Josh Yager), Logan examined the U.S. Army's efforts at securing the airport road in Baghdad. Her piece questioned whether the Army is in fact alienating Iraqis.

In November 2001, for example, Ms. Logan, then a correspondent for the British morning show "GMTV," managed to infiltrate the upper ranks of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, where she gained exclusive interviews at Bagram Air Base with General Babajan, a commander.

Ms. Logan, married for six years to Jason Siemon, until recently a professional basketball player in England, told how she had fairly begged a clerk at the Russian Embassy in London to give her an expedited visa days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Ms. Logan said that she never could have reached the upper echelons of American broadcast journalism if she didn't have tenacity, fearlessness and compassion.