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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMubarek is dead...
Egypt's state news agency MENA reports former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is "clinically dead."
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Mubarek is dead... (Original Post)
cynatnite
Jun 2012
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Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)1. Convenient timing.
malaise
(269,365 posts)2. Well the formal results are due in two days and
all objective sources saythe Brotherhood won the election.
Expect the military to attempt a coup because thousands of people are already in the square again
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)3. What the hell is "convenient" about it?????
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18510201
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Tens of thousands have gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square to protest against a decision by the ruling military council to assume new powers.
The protests were called by the Muslim Brotherhood, as it claims its candidate won last weekend's presidential poll.
His rival, former PM Ahmed Shafiq, also says he has won.
Meanwhile officials said ex-President Hosni Mubarak, ousted in last year's revolution, had been moved from jail to a military hospital after a stroke.
As Egyptians voted, the generals dissolved parliament and claimed all legislative power for themselves.
Correspondents say the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) appears to be working on the assumption that Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Mursi will win, and making moves designed to reduce or constrain the power of the president and entrench its own.
Activists have described the moves as a "military coup".
<snip>
Tens of thousands have gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square to protest against a decision by the ruling military council to assume new powers.
The protests were called by the Muslim Brotherhood, as it claims its candidate won last weekend's presidential poll.
His rival, former PM Ahmed Shafiq, also says he has won.
Meanwhile officials said ex-President Hosni Mubarak, ousted in last year's revolution, had been moved from jail to a military hospital after a stroke.
As Egyptians voted, the generals dissolved parliament and claimed all legislative power for themselves.
Correspondents say the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) appears to be working on the assumption that Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Mursi will win, and making moves designed to reduce or constrain the power of the president and entrench its own.
Activists have described the moves as a "military coup".
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)10. I totally fail to see what Mubarak's continuing decline
has to do with the election.
malaise
(269,365 posts)14. It's about the coup - diversion by the military
and he is out of that life sentence and now in a military hospital.
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)4. You are well-named
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)9. what an original personal attack against me.
Did you think that up all by yourself?
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)13. what an original personal attack against me
Did you think that up all by yourself?
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)15. And you are playing I know you are but what am I.
This is fun. I feel like I'm five.
little elvis
(11 posts)7. Tell me about it. Time to check off
another leader of a sovereign nation on the Kill List...
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)6. Too bad. Mubarak didn't suffer nearly enough for what he did. n/t
Octafish
(55,745 posts)8. Is ''clinically dead'' what happened to Kenny Boy Lay?
They never did open the casket.
So sad about Hosni. The guy should've made it through sentencing.
hahahareally
(22 posts)11. pretty much already was.
Freddie Stubbs
(29,853 posts)12. He's not dead, and doesn't want to get on the cart