From Reuters a few minutes ago (6/19/2012):
(Reuters) - Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 30 years until overthrown by a revolution in the "Arab Spring" last year, was declared clinically dead by his doctors on Tuesday, the state news agency MENA said in a report confirmed by a hospital source.
Mubarak was 84 and had been sentenced to life in prison earlier this month.
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...and to imagine that two years ago he was ready to rule for another decade!
That whole bunch somehow get sick once they lose power. Pinochet, anyone?
Under Uncle Hosni, Egypt was a police state for most of its population and a cheap party spot for western Europeans.
Thank God he's gone.
Didn't TEPCO's top honcho try to pull one of these soon after 3/11?
Mubarak may be gone, but the military regime he led continues to rule the country virtually unchanged.
Sic semper tyrranis and all that, to be sure, but I can't help believing he was done in. Probably says more about me than I should care to admit.
@9:13, yes, and if the US leadership had its way, that vile torturer Omar Suleyman would be "the man" right now. They don't always get precisely what they want, fortunately.
I don't think the game's over yet. At least the fanfare around another supposed "leader" Wael Ghonim has become quieter.
Something new must emerge, the situation is unbearable and more people than before understand it.
Well he is not dead yet, radio said he had regained conscious today.
"Thank God he's gone."
Becareful what you ask for. Without the military in control, Egypt will fall into a chaotic theocracy. While Egypts military gov't may been corrupt, the theocracy that replaces will be much much worse, leading to war with Israel and perhaps other neighbors and probably wholesale destruction of Egypt's ancient ruins because they are blasphemy in Islam.
The people are likely to put in power religious extremist because they believe religious leaders are uncorruptible, which is the opposite of reality. The Eyptian people will suffer greatly under a theocracy gov't.
I have lived in Egypt, having already grown up in a majority-Muslim state as a non-Muslim, and I have very little patience for fantasy tales by people whose main exposure to "Izlaam" consists of watching CNN and reading B. Lewis.
The US gave Mubarak millions of dollars in military aid so that he would kiss Israeli ass. That does not serve even Israel, which should be working at integrating itself into the region instead of having suicidal nuclear fantasies.
One word: NO.
"The US gave Mubarak millions of dollars in military aid so that he would kiss Israeli ass. That does not serve even Israel, which should be working at integrating itself into the region instead of having suicidal nuclear fantasies."
I am not denying that, except perhaps it was billions, not millions . But war will do no good for the people of Egypt. I also agree that Israel and its neighbors should be working together to build something better, but as a realist, I know that just won't happen anytime soon.
I also don't have any objections to Islam, but I am concerned about radical Islamic leaders destabilizing the region. I also believe Theocracies (for any religion) are a terrible form of gov't.
Correct me if I am worng, but so far I fail to see any good that has come out of the Arab Spring. I just see lots of dead people and people worse off then they were under the old regimes. Yes the leaders were terrible, but I worry there replacements will be worse.
FYI: I don't watch CNN, and I don't even know who B. Lewis is.
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