CBS's Logan tells Leno, 'Things are going very very badly in Iraq'

Mike Aivaz and Muriel Kane

Published: Wednesday October 17, 2007



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CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan talked to Jay Leno on Monday about growing up in apartheid South Africa, how she became a reporter, and what it's been like reporting on so many wars over 17 years. "You see the absolute worst of humanity and then you see ... something that's so incredible," she told Leno.

"How are we doing [in Iraq] from your point of view?" Leno asked.

"We're doing extremely badly," Logan replied. She said that because of the suppression of pictures of American casualties, most people have no idea how bad things are.

Logan emphasized that, although the alliance of the US military with former Sunni insurgents has had an impact on al Qaeda in Iraq, "to say that we have crippled them is suicide. That's one of those things that you say and you live to regret."

She added that the surge is "working in certain places, temporarily," but hasn't altered the fundamental dynamics of the situation.

The following video is from NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno, broadcast on October 15, 2007



