Last Friday, CBS News reported that a famous Iraqi surgeon and his family were trapped in Baghdad amid heavy fighting on Haifa Street. Chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan interviewed Dr. Quraish Fajir al-Kasir by phone about his precarious situation.
“Today, after our report was broadcast, and with the help of America’s ambassador to Iraq, Captain John Gilliam and his men answered the family’s desperate plea for help,” Logan reported on Monday’s Evening News.
Logan accompanied the U.S. Army’s 4th Squadron, 9th Cavalry, and recorded the rescue with a handheld camera…
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