Lara Logan was born in Durban, South Africa. She attended high school at Durban Girls' College. In 1992, she graduated from the University of Natal in Durban. Her professional biographies claim attendance at the "Universite de L’Alliance Francaise" in Paris, an international network of language schools to promote the study of French language and culture. L'Alliance Francaise, however, is not a university.

In November 2001, 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.

Logan, married for six years to Jason Siemon, until recently a professional basketball player in the United Kingdom, told how she had fairly begged a clerk at the Russian Embassy in London to give her an expedited visa days after the September 11, 2001 attacks. She entered Afghanistan through Russia.

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

Named chief foreign correspondent of CBS News in February 2006, Logan was embedded with a U.S. military unit in Ramadi on March 10, 2006, when a nearby Marine was shot by a sniper.

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