LARA LOGAN
Logan has described how she begged a clerk at the Russian Embassy in London to give her an expedited visa for travel into Afghanistan days after the attacks on 9/11. In November, 2001, Logan was in Afghanistan working as a correspondent for the British morning program, GMTV. While there, she infiltrated the American- and British-backed Northern Alliance and interviewed their commander, General Babajan, at the Bagram Air Base.
Logan next spent much of the next four years reporting from the field, including warzones in Afghanistan and Iraq, often as anembedded journalist with the American Armed Forces.
Logan was promoted to the position of the Chief Foreign Correspondent for CBS News in February, 2006.