Posted on 02/13/2011 10:35:37 PM PST by americanophile
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT - Hosni Mubarak, whose presence was felt and feared throughout Egypt for 30 years, has fallen quickly and astonishingly out of sight, his exact whereabouts unknown. The prime minister declared Sunday that Mubarak was here, in a favored southern Sinai resort, and a senior U.S. administration official said the White House also believes that Mubarak is staying in Sharm el-Sheikh.
Mubarak remains unseen here so far, just as always. For the last five years, he has come to this sunny retreat for one or two days a week, often longer, local residents say, vanishing behind the high walls of a private compound adjacent to a hotel and golf course owned by his best friend, Hussein Salem. With the sea on one side, desert on another and heavily armed police blockades on the lone road leading to the hotel and nearby villa, he was invisible and secure, and here he was expected to enter exile.
But life behind high walls sounds as much prisonlike as privileged - Mubarak's hardly preparing to go snorkeling or gambling, the main diversions here. That could make Germany an appealing destination, with more opportunities to roam, and other reports put him there, perhaps to receive medical treatment.
Mubarak had been rumored to be ill since gallbladder surgery in Heidelberg in March, and the weekly magazine Der Spiegel reported last week that he would soon be bound for a German clinic.
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South Pacific?
Carribean?
Caioba’?
I can think of lots of nice places for a retired billionaire tyrant.
He’s been stolen!
Find Hosni Mubarak...and you’ll find Amelia Earhart and 0bama’s birth certificate. (Cue spooky music)
With Waldo?
Probably with Jimmy Hoffa ... and socks in the dryer.
This is idiotic — even Jimmy Carter knew where the Shah was.
Lincoln bedroom wouldn’t surprise me.
..taking tea with Polonius........
If he stole all that money they claim he did, he needs to be cooling his heals in an Egyptian prison.
He’s currently at an undisclosed location filming his new reality TV show called, “Hey, Hosni!!!”.
LOL
Saudi Arabia...
This morning while listening to 630 WMAL, at the top of the hour news, I heard a report that Mubarak was in a coma. I didn’t hear the report anymore, but found this article on the website:
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(CAIRO) — Reports are surfacing in Egypt Monday that former President Hosni Mubarak, who left Cairo following his resignation last week, is in a coma. State-owned newspaper Al-Ahram is among the local press reporting that the 83-year-old former president fell into a coma last Saturday at his residence in Sharm al-Sheikh, where he remains receiving medical treatment. Rumors also circulated that Mubarak fainted more than once while recording his final speech to the nation last Thursday. Much of the ousted president’s smoke and mirrors apparatus remains in place even though he’s stepped down, so it’s difficult to determine whether there is any authenticity to these reports. Meanwhile, back in Cairo, hundreds of Egyptian state employees are protesting to demand better pay and conditions in the latest outbreak of labor unrest unleashed in the uprising that ousted Mubarak. Outside the Nile-side TV and state radio building, hundreds of public transport workers are demonstrating to demand better pay. Several hundred protesters from the state Youth and Sports Organization protested Monday in Tahrir, or Liberation, Square with similar demands. The Central Bank of Egypt ordered banks across the country closed following a strike by employees of the National Bank, the largest state bank.
The military council ruling Egypt says security and a return to normalcy are among its top priorities.
(Copyright 2011 by ABC News Radio and The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
This wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Any truth to the rumor that Hosni and Aunt Zeituni are “friends?” As an “Uncle,” Hosni would be a welcome father-figure to Barry. Teach him a whole lot of manly stuff.
Last Middle East despotic tyrant who was overthrown by Islamic militants wound up in Minnesota.
That’s the first I’ve heard of that. I have no idea.
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