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Lara Logan born on 29 March 1971,in Durban, South Africa, is a South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent.

She is currently the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS News, 60 Minutes correspondent, filing reports for the CBS Evening News and the CBS Radio Network.

Logan has described how she begged a clerk at the Russian Embassy in London to give her an expedited visa days after the 11th September 2001, attacks.While in Afghanistan in November 2001, Logan, then working as a correspondent for the British morning program, GMTV, infiltrated the U.S.- and U.K.-backed Northern Alliance fighting the Taliban and interviewed commander General Babajan at Bagram Air Base.

Logan spent much of the next four years reporting from the field in Afghanistan, traveling often as an embedded reporter with American forces.

Logan was named chief foreign correspondent of CBS News in February 2006.

In late January 2007, Logan filed a report about fighting along Haifa Street.

Logan’s husband is a federal defense contractor from Texas whom she met in Iraq. They had a son in January 2009. Her previous husband, Jason Siemon, was a professional basketball player in the United Kingdom.