On "60 Minutes," Logan recounts attack

Lara Logan, chief foreign correspondent for CBS News who was sexually assaulted in Cairo's Tahrir Square during the waning hours of the Egyptian revolution in February, will return to the network's air Sunday in an extended interview on "60 Minutes."

According to network transcripts of the interview released Thursday, Logan -- who has been off the air since the Feb. 11 assault -- said she thought she would die as a mob surrounded her and then beat her.

"There was no doubt in my mind that I was in the process of dying," she tells "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley. "I thought not only am I going to die, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever."

Logan, 39, was on assignment for "60 Minutes" on Feb. 11 as she waded through a huge celebratory crowd at Tahrir Square with her producer and cameraman, as well as with an interpreter who was also a bodyguard.

She said she had been reporting for an hour in the square when her interpreter told her that he had overheard something, then advised her to leave the square, but at that point, she was set upon by a mob of "several hundred men."

The attack lasted for about 25 minutes, according to CBS, before Logan was rescued by Egyptian soldiers and a group of women.

She was taken back to her hotel, later returning to New York and her home in Washington where she recuperated.

A CBS News spokesman said Thursday Logan was not conducting additional interviews, beyond the one with Pelley and another with The New York Times, which was posted on its website Thursday.

In that interview, Logan told the paper that "for an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands," while saying the attack lasted about 40 minutes.

She said, "My clothes were torn to pieces," and "What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence."

Logan declined to offer further details about the attack.