For Iraqi Reporters, Danger Never Ends

As she heads off to work, Iraqi journalist Lara Mohammed lives with the same fears as every other Iraqi woman. At any moment she could be kidnapped or killed, CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan reports.

But this young television correspondent has more reason than most to be afraid. Not only is she out on the most violent streets in the world every day doing her job, but her high profile job on a daily television channel, called Baghdadia, has made her the target of repeated death threats. Last month, her own father was murdered.

The memory of that night is still raw.

"I lifted my head from the pillow to find many people all over," Lara says, describing a death squad entering her home. "They entered from the roof door, the front door, the kitchen door. It was so sudden. They told us, 'We have come to take the old man.'"

The men told Lara and her four younger sisters their father would not be gone long, but within hours he was dead. He was shot execution-style.

"I called him, 'Dad, Dad.' but he didn't answer. He didn't even look back at us," Lara says. "I felt that he gave up the moment he was taken. I think he had a feeling that he was going to die. We lost many things that day, we lost our whole lives."

One thing Lara didn't lose was her commitment to her work, which she believes matters because it gives the Iraqi people a voice they never had under Saddam Hussein.

It's Lara's job to rush to the scene of explosions and attacks in Baghdad, often in the most dangerous neighborhoods that are off-limits to foreign media.

Although covering Iraq is dangerous for all journalists, the vast majority of almost 80 killed in this conflict so far have been locals like Lara. But that doesn't stop her because the suffering of the Iraqi's is a story she believes must be told.

The American media is criticized for not giving enough good news about Iraq and only concentrating on the bad news. As a journalist and as an Iraqi, Lara says there is little good news.

"We don't just pull things out of our pockets. What good things are happening?," Lara says. "The death toll is even underestimated so as not to panic Iraqi people and some media even conceal the obvious truth that Iraq is on the verge of civil war."

If that war comes, Lara says she's she'll keep reporting, in part because she remembers how proud it made her father.