MANHATTAN — A New York University fellow and journalist resigned and apologized Wednesday after making remarks on Twitter about the attack and sexual assault of CBS correspondent Lara Logan in Egypt.
Nir Rosen, a fellow at NYU's Center for Law and Security, who has reported extensively from Iraq and the Middle East, took to Twitter Tuesday to rant about the incident.
"
ara logan had to outdo anderson. Where was her buddy mccrystal?" he reportedly tweeted, in an apparent reference to a recent attack on CNN's Anderson Cooper where the reporter was punched in the head as he covered demonstrations in Egypt.
On Feb. 11, Logan, a "60 Minutes" correspondent, was in Cairo's Tahrir Square covering the elation after President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, according to CBS.
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