Egypt domino effect: Hosni Mubarak 'has cancer'

[Bozita]

Source: Telegraph UK

Egypt domino effect: Hosni Mubarak 'has cancer'
Ex-President Hosni Mubarak is sick and has fainted on at least one occasion at the Red Sea holiday villa where he has been sent into internal exile, according to sources close to his entourage.
By Ruth Sherlock in Sharm-el-Sheikh and Richard Spencer in Cairo 7:47PM GMT 14 Feb 2011


Mr Mubarak has been said before to have been treated for cancer, which he has always denied. But yesterday locals in Sharm-el-Sheikh said they had been told by his police guards that he was lying bedbound and needed help in walking.

Many locals sympathised with the former dictator. "Mubarak is very sick – they say he has cancer," said Ahmed, a teacher.

Their accounts tallied with reports by well-placed sources who had been in contact with Mr Mubarak's advisers, several of whom are understood to be with him.

Sameh Shoukry, Egypt's ambassador to Washington, said that he had been informed that the president's health had taken a turn for the worse.

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[AzDar]

1. Call me cynical...but this smells like a Ken Lay caper to me.

:)

[tabatha]

2. Possibly the stress of being hated by an entire nation

caused this to get worse.

[WheelWalker]

9. You're right. That couldn't feel good. Bummer.

[leveymg]

3. Avoided a succession crisis. Remarkable timing - almost like it was stage-managed.

The yearning for democracy is real enough. Didn't take much to set that off, but I still don't really understand how it spread without much real, determined resistance from the authorities. The Facebook revolution - gag me. Notice that the net result is that the military has control over the country, and nobody's much upset by that. Only goes to show, well, anything's possible . . .

[EFerrari]

8. It's beginning to sound like Gamal Mubarak was disliked

by the establishment. Like he leveraged influence with his aging father (enough to get Mubarak to change the last speech he gave against the advice of others, including the US) but he didn't have support beyond Hosni. Maybe that's the point of conflict or disunity that allowed the protests to occur so that the generals and not Gamal would take control.

[leveymg]

10. Ding ding! Give that lady a ceegar!

Okay, smartypants. Where's the $70 billion? (Hint - most of it went back to where it came from)

[EFerrari]

12. Saudi for a macanudo, Alex?

That's the last rumor I heard, anyway. :hi:

[leveymg]

13. A lot of it was sliced off the top of weapons deals. A significant amount went

straight back to the same defense contractors who bribed the regime to begin with. Kickbacks. Some of it never existed. A nice untracable circle, (or pyramid scheme) paid for by the US taxpayer. Kinda like Madoff's "Ponzi scheme" (which wasn't) - a circle with the funds pocketed or diverted by the "victims".

What happened to Mubarak's real money? They'll be able to trace maybe .10 on the Dollar. Most of the rest went into something like Yamamah, the giant Saudi sludge fund, the Kingdom royals have been using to buy British and American political parties.

. . . Okay, I know, I'm mixing a lot of different criminal business models here.

[lunatica]

4. He may have had a stroke from the stress

They're just trying to help him save face by calling it something that was already there before.

But other than to speculate I really don't care. He certainly caused a great deal of torture pain to plenty of people for 30 years. Although I don't wish them harm, I have very little sympathy for his kind. Let karma take care of him.

[JI7]

5. remember he had been preparing for his son to take over ? and there was some talk long before the

revolution that his health might not be that great.

i question this source , but if true it wouldn't be a surprise.

[JI7]

6. remember he had been preparing for his son to take over ? and there was some talk long before the

revolution that his health might not be that great.

i question this source , but if true it wouldn't be a surprise.

[aquart]

7. Yup, going to Germany for permanent treatment.

[tblue37]

11. He and his family and cronies *were* a cancer on their country. nt