Mubarak has given up and wants to die, says Saudi official

Haaretz ^ | February 16, 2011

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Egypt's ousted president has given up and wants to die in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh where he has been living since a popular uprising ended his rule, a Saudi official said on Wednesday.

Hosni Mubarak, 82, has suffered from health problems in recent years and travelled to Germany for gall bladder surgery in March last year. Reports of a further decline have increased since he stepped down on Friday after three decades in power.

An official in Saudi Arabia said the kingdom had offered to host Mubarak but he was determined to see out his days in Egypt. Official confirmation could not immediately be obtained from the Saudi government.

"He is not dead but is not doing well at all and refuses to leave. Basically, he has given up and wants to die in Sharm," said the Saudi official, who asked not to be named.

Mubarak vowed to die in Egypt when he addressed the country's 80 million people last week while still clinging to power.

A source with links to the Mubarak family said on Tuesday that the former president was "fine," and had been taking telephone calls.

[Izzy Dunne]

A lot of people would be willing to help out with that.

[JoeProBono]

Sharm el-Sheikh

[exPBRrat]

Pres Mubarak kept the peace and the canal out of the turbulent mid-east politics. That’s no easy feat.

For that he’s earned my respect. Personally I felt it was over when our state run propaganda organs started reporting he had 75B put away. Total malarkey imo and designed to inflame a crowd starved by the inflationary repercussions of QE2.

Amidst a perfect storm of affirmative action the worlds peace is now held hostage, left adrift, rudderless without a champion .

Does that make your leg tingle Mr. Matthews?

[kbennkc]

He should be so lucky. He is not likely to get the due process afforded Saddam, nor the mercy of the coup de grace given to Ceausescu.

[MissMack99]

Why can’t we get Barney Frank to do the same?

[Navy Patriot]

The modern democratic Egyptians have joined the modern progressive leftists in a successful attempt to prove the theory that there is a fool born every minute.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Well, it looks like paradise to me.

[OB1kNOb]

"He is not dead but is not doing well at all and refuses to leave. Basically, he has given up and wants to die in Sharm,"

What he REALLY said: "This place is to Die for!"

[Vermont Lt]

So, as they say, either hurry up and start livin’, or hurry up and start dyin.