ON Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama called Lara Logan, an administration official said.

    The White House would provide no other information. Earlier, the new White House press secretary, Jay Carney, said at his debut briefing that “violence against journalists was unacceptable and that the perpetrators of violence need to be held accountable.”

    In Logan’s case, however, colleagues have said it is unlikely the attackers can be identified.

    In 2008, after Obama, then a Senator, had become the Democrats’ presidential nominee, Logan interviewed him in Afghanistan, where he had gone to assess the war.

    (SD-Agencies)