Mubarak's wife in hospital after arrest

Source: cbs

Suzanne Mubarak, wife of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, was hospitalized in the intensive care unit Friday after suffering severe chest pains upon hearing the news that she had been ordered detained on corruption allegations.

The director of the hospital said she had a heart problem and was in unstable condition at the hospital in this Red Sea resort community, where her husband also has been hospitalized.

The detention order came a day after the 70-year-old former first lady was questioned for the first time since she was accused of taking advantage of her husband's position to enrich herself. The Mubaraks and other members of the former regime have been the subject of legal efforts to bring them to trial since the ex-president was ousted on Feb. 11 after a popular uprising.

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PB

Only kidding...but it's a very lucky coincidence.

position now, with their sons in jail awaiting trial on corruption and other charges, Mubarak himself possibly facing the death penalty, after living like royalty for so long, I can imagine the effect on all of them, both physically and emotionally.

What is sad is that when they were throwing people in jail, sentencing them to death, torturing them, they were so 'brave'. They had no mercy for those people. I hope they do not get the death penalty as I am against it. But had they been good leaders, rather than puppets to Western powers and living like kings off the profits from those alliances and from the Egyptian people, things might be different for them now.

As both Obama, Biden, and others in our government said, 'Mubarak is a good friend and ally' I wonder if anyone in this government understands that when they support dictators, they are doing great harm to the people of those countries and in the end to their 'friends and allies'.

I'm surprised they stayed in the country. That their Western friends didn't help to get them out as we often do for our dictator friends and we have many of them.

But, on a human level, I feel some compassion for them. Sad that they did not take care of their own people when they had the chance.

Under Qaddafi's rule, women in Libya can own property, have access to free education, can hold jobs. Wait til the al Qaeda/Islamic fundamentalists the US/NATO are supporting get in there. The US doesn't care whether rulers are beneficial to their people or not.

what we still don't have here, the equal pay for equal work. Now, well, Iraq is a total disaster. It's pretty bad when people there say they were better off under a dictator. We're just not good at creating 'democracies'. We have given the world 'democracy' a bad name.

I agree too re Libya. I really wish the people there had been able to do it themselves, as in Tunisia and Egypt. I was so hoping it would work for them. But yes, they too like the Iraqis, may wish for the 'old days' after they get a taste of western occupation.

I'm not shedding many tears for them, but at the same time, it is a human tragedy which doesn't mean they don't deserve the consequences of their actions. It is an old story, human beings never seem to learn from history.

I wish the Egyptian people well, it will not be easy creating a democratic state out of the police state Mubarak, with our help sadly, created. But I think they can do it given enough time and NO interference from the West this time.

Remember that?

Egypt's former first lady Suzanne Mubarak's condition has improved, after she reportedly suffered health problems following an order for her detention on suspicion of corruption.

Mubarak, was originally reported to have had a heart attack but the Associated Press news agency said that she was now in stable condition after treatment for a "panic attack".

She has effectively been detained in the hospital pending further investigation of corruption allegations, officials said on Saturday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/05/201151414405360569.html