Lara Logan, Michael Ware Involved In Steamy Baghdad Love Triangle

CBS' Lara Logan was involved in a Baghdad love triangle with a married US State Department contractor and CNN international correspondent Michael Ware, the New York Post reports.

This week's National Enquirer reported the news of Logan's Baghdad sex life, and implicated her as the cause of the State Department contractor's divorce. And while it named the contractor — Joe Burkett — it only described Ware as a "star CNN correspondent." The Post reports his name in Thursday's paper:

Passions got so hot in the combat zone that one of her lovers, Joe Burkett, brawled in a Baghdad "safe house" with her other paramour, CNN war reporter Michael Ware, a source said.

A close pal of Logan, who confirmed the allegations to The Post, said Burkett's marriage to Kimberly was already finished six months before they sparked up a relationship.

"She is not the cause of their divorce," the friend told The Post yesterday.

"It was going to happen."

The pal also said Logan was particularly hurt by the comments because she had met Kimberly Burkett and thought the two were "friendly."

As for the other claims, pals admitted that Logan had a one-time fling with CNN reporter Ware - but denied that there was any sort of fight between him and Burkett in Baghdad.

"There was no screaming match," the pal said.

Click to read more about Logan's alleged involvement in the Burketts' divorce.

Comments

[MetalCanuck]

Lucky bastard Michael:)

[orangepetal]

New Rule

In Bagdad it is officially encouraged to make love not war.

[Adian00]

go'head on girl. Michael Ware is full on hottie (even with half a nose)!!!

[plainsman]

If I was stuck in a war zone, regular trysts would be essential. Who cares what she did, who she slept with. Ware is kind of creepy though, I'm not sure she should admit to that.

[Gorestro]

I am glad this story made a news at HuffPo because it gave us a chance to say our deep appreciation to Lara for her honesty and professional journalism. And my thought on her affairs? She shared love with someone in the bloody Baghdad where others were sharing greed and hatred in the same place.

[Alessan]

Who really cares about this reporter, she can have as many affair as she wants, it's nobody's business period.

[danton2000]

Don't Be a BUZZKILL... She's hOT !! And anyway at least we are getting news from Iraq!

[Cutie02]

She's a brilliant woman. She can do what she wants with her personal life.

[LoRiseAntlers]

Last week,Logan was on the Daily Show criticizing the media for it's white-washing of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,and this week,HuffPo is helping Rupert Murdoch attack her personal life,with very scant evidence indeed.

[happycat]

i agree with you. This is what the press will do to you if you are one of the few members of their profession who speaks the truth about what is going on in Iraq. I don't care what is set about her, Lara Logan is a great journalist.

[muffler]

The timing is suspect and it is probably pay back for her out outspokenness. She is making the rest of the lazy sheeple journalists look ineffective. She keeps reminding us of courage and truth. The talking heads can't look good sitting in the same room with her. So what do they do... typical Kindergarten gossip stuff. Where are the Adults? Please tell me.

[tbrnotb]

Amen to that LoRiseAntlers! One week after dissing her CBS cohorts, this appears. Isn't there something happening in Iraq everyone should be reporting? It's called a war.

These people's love lives should be off-limits....unless it can be turned into a fabulous Hollywood screenplay! Hey, my friends at Paramount! Are you interested? LOL!

[lthuedk 1]

Did the tryst affect your life? Didn't think so. The behavior of consenting adults is none of the smear artist's business. Not even a bad try.

Logan is sharp and knows news. What's the problem?

[SteveStephens]

There's no fighting in the WAR ROOM!!

(she does look extremely hot piece of ass, however. You'll have to forgive me, I live in Nebraska).

[NoahVail]

Where are the photos? Video? Definitely pay-per-view stuff.

[Ddorsey]

I'd pay for it.

[allseasons]

Why is this even news?

[vipersdad]

uhm.... is this the news from Baghdad that we're reporting on?

Not the daily sacrifices of the Iraqi people?
Not the hard won progress by the American, British, or Iraqi army?
Not the failings of the Iraqi political process?
Not the corruption of the American Contractors in Iraq?

This is what we care about?

...count me out...... Tabloid pablum.

[YankeeCanuck]

Except that Ms Logan has been very outspoken and critical that reporting on the war has been dropped from the mass media.

THis may be tabloid material, but it's deeper than that.

[max]

good work michael!

[verlaine]

Lara Logan is one of the most beautiful women on the planet and she's entitled to live her life as she sees fit.

If Lara's journalistic career is destroyed by this scandal, she has a great future as a female action hero.

Lara Logan in leotards or a leather jumpsuit playing Batgirl, Emma Peel, or Wonder Woman is box office gold.

[brooklyncitizen]

LOL

Is this a fantasy of yours?

[verlaine]

Sometimes, today's fantasy becomes tomorrow's reality.

[onedivasinger]

So Logan and Ware repeatedly told the truth and we want to make them the story? Look for other people's lives to be destroyed before the election. Look to yourself to gage the moral compass with which you will allow this farce to continue...

[Beowoof]

No doubt. An effort to stigmatize their reporting? Why not? They won't shed light on the contractors or dead bodies coming home, so give em a salacious distracton. One more and we just might forget that oil isn't 20$ a barrel.