page_title: Battle of Haifa Street
section_title: Lara Logan report
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Haifa Street / Media Coverage / Lara Logan report
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of CBS News correspondent Lara Logan on duty in Iraq...originally a US Army source shown in the New York Post newspaper. Despite it being in a copyrighted paper, the picture itself is an original United States Army work, as is indicated in the watermark in the source (cropped out here). If the source link dies, the image can be found here, containing the source in the watermark.
context_page_description: The Battle of Haifa Street was a battle fought during January 2007 for the control of Haifa Street, a two-mile-long street in downtown Baghdad, Iraq, pitting American and Iraqi Army forces against various Sunni insurgent forces between January 6 and January 9, 2007, and then two weeks later on January 24 when US forces launched a second attempt to clear Haifa Street of insurgents once and for all. This battle was the precursor for clearing operations that would set the conditions for "the surge" which ultimately neutralized insurgent groups in this part of Baghdad during the spring and summer of 2007.
context_section_description: In late January 2007, CBS News correspondent Lara Logan filed a report about fighting along Haifa Street in Baghdad. When CBS News refused to run the report on the nightly news because the footage was "a bit strong". Logan tried to win public support to reverse this decision. Logan said, "I would be very grateful if any of you have a chance to watch this story and pass the link on to as many people you know as possible. It should be seen. And people should know about this." Logan went on to use some of the Haifa Street material during a 60 Minutes report about life in Baghdad under the surge.
caption: CBS News correspondent Lara Logan in Iraq. US Army photo.
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