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Ugandan Dictator Amin Still Alive, Doctors Say [not dead as previously reported]
Reuters ^
| Tue July 29, 2003 12:50 PM ET
Posted on 07/29/2003 11:29:42 AM PDT by yonif
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Doctors said Idi Amin, blamed for the murders of tens of thousands of Ugandans during his bloody dictatorship in the 1970s, was still alive in a Saudi hospital Tuesday. "He is still in intensive care and alive," a Saudi doctor at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah told Reuters. He refused to give details on whether Amin was in critical condition.
Amin came out of coma last week and was said to be then in serious condition. Earlier last week, the hospital said Amin might not survive.
Amin has lived in exile, mainly in Saudi Arabia, since being ousted from his East African homeland in 1979. Aged 75, his health had been deteriorating for some time.
Under his despotic 1971-79 rule, tens of thousands of people were killed. Some estimates put the figure at more than 100,000.
Driven from Uganda by Tanzanian forces and Ugandan exiles, Amin, a Muslim, was given sanctuary by Saudi Arabia in the name of Islamic charity.
A former boxing champion who once expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler, Amin has lived quietly in Jeddah on a government stipend with four wives.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemitic; arabia; entebbe; idiamin; saudis; uganda
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1
posted on
07/29/2003 11:29:42 AM PDT
by
yonif
To: yonif
BREAKING: SADDAM HUSSEIN STILL ALIVE
2
posted on
07/29/2003 11:31:09 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
(The Dems are self-destructing before our eyes, How Great is That !)
To: yonif
This is the second freaking time that his death has been called off. He doesn't know how to throw a really good party does he?
3
posted on
07/29/2003 11:31:09 AM PDT
by
dogbyte12
Comment #4 Removed by Moderator
To: yonif
Man, this is deja vu all over again for the last time...
5
posted on
07/29/2003 11:31:14 AM PDT
by
RoughDobermann
(Who are you tryin' to get crazy with, ese? Don't you know I'm loco?)
To: yonif
"Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!"
"I'm not quite dead yet...."
6
posted on
07/29/2003 11:31:14 AM PDT
by
adam_az
To: yonif
Idi Amin is going for Saddam's record for being in the news for dying the most times.
7
posted on
07/29/2003 11:31:45 AM PDT
by
So Cal Rocket
(Free Miguel and Priscilla!)
To: yonif
E's just restin!
8
posted on
07/29/2003 11:31:57 AM PDT
by
ko_kyi
To: yonif
"This just in, Generalisimo Francisco Franco is still dead."
9
posted on
07/29/2003 11:32:04 AM PDT
by
Redcloak
(All work and no FReep makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no FReep make s Jack a dul boy. Allwork an)
To: ko_kyi
Pining for the fjords!
To: Redcloak
And TEXXON is there.
To: ko_kyi
Beautiful plumage, the Ugandan Dark ...
12
posted on
07/29/2003 11:33:01 AM PDT
by
strela
("Each of us can find a maggot in our past which will happily devour our futures." Horatio Hornblower)
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
To: yonif
RATS!
Pull the plug on him already!
Someone please 'accidentally' trip over his life supprt power cord.
14
posted on
07/29/2003 11:35:00 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
("I didn't say it wouldn't burn, I said it wouldn't hurt.")
To: yonif
Well hell.
To: yonif
- CART MASTER:
- Bring out your dead!
- [clang]
- CUSTOMER:
- Here's one.
- CART MASTER:
- Ninepence.
- DEAD PERSON:
- I'm not dead!
- CART MASTER:
- What?
- CUSTOMER:
- Nothing. Here's your ninepence.
- DEAD PERSON:
- I'm not dead!
- CART MASTER:
- 'Ere. He says he's not dead!
- CUSTOMER:
- Yes, he is.
- DEAD PERSON:
- I'm not!
- CART MASTER:
- He isn't?
- CUSTOMER:
- Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.
- DEAD PERSON:
- I'm getting better!
- CUSTOMER:
- No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
- CART MASTER:
- Oh, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
- DEAD PERSON:
- I don't want to go on the cart!
- CUSTOMER:
- Oh, don't be such a baby.
- CART MASTER:
- I can't take him.
- DEAD PERSON:
- I feel fine!
- CUSTOMER:
- Well, do us a favour.
- CART MASTER:
- I can't.
- CUSTOMER:
- Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
- CART MASTER:
- No, I've got to go to the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.
- CUSTOMER:
- Well, when's your next round?
- CART MASTER:
- Thursday.
- DEAD PERSON:
- I think I'll go for a walk.
- CUSTOMER:
- You're not fooling anyone, you know. Look. Isn't there something you can do?
- DEAD PERSON: [singing]
- I feel happy. I feel happy.
- [whop]
- CUSTOMER:
- Ah, thanks very much.
- CART MASTER:
- Not at all. See you on Thursday.
- CUSTOMER:
- Here's one.
- CART MASTER:
- Ninepence.
- DEAD PERSON:
- I'm not dead!
- CART MASTER:
- What?
- CUSTOMER:
- Nothing. Here's your ninepence.
- DEAD PERSON:
- I'm not dead!
- CART MASTER:
- 'Ere. He says he's not dead!
- CUSTOMER:
- Yes, he is.
- DEAD PERSON:
- I'm not!
- CART MASTER:
- He isn't?
- CUSTOMER:
- Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.
- DEAD PERSON:
- I'm getting better!
- CUSTOMER:
- No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
- CART MASTER:
- Oh, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
- DEAD PERSON:
- I don't want to go on the cart!
- CUSTOMER:
- Oh, don't be such a baby.
- CART MASTER:
- I can't take him.
- DEAD PERSON:
- I feel fine!
- CUSTOMER:
- Well, do us a favour.
- CART MASTER:
- I can't.
- CUSTOMER:
- Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
- CART MASTER:
- No, I've got to go to the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.
- CUSTOMER:
- Well, when's your next round?
- CART MASTER:
- Thursday.
- DEAD PERSON:
- I think I'll go for a walk.
- CUSTOMER:
- You're not fooling anyone, you know. Look. Isn't there something you can do?
- DEAD PERSON: [singing]
- I feel happy. I feel happy.
- [whop]
- CUSTOMER:
- Ah, thanks very much.
- CART MASTER:
- Not at all. See you on Thursday.
To: 1Old Pro
"Isalmic charity" and "admiration for Hitler"
Is it me?
To: ko_kyi
Knock, knock, knock... You are Idi Amin? I am. Sounds of breaking stuff and a struggle...
I think he's dead...
No, I'm not...
Sound of more breaking stuff and struggle...
Stolen from the "Mary Queen of Scots" skit.
To: yonif
"Good news! Good News! I am not dead... yet."
Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"
19
posted on
07/29/2003 11:35:52 AM PDT
by
End Times Sentinel
("Europeans lost the will to live the moral life long ago." - Ben Shapiro)
To: yonif
I didn't realize Amin was a Muslim. I knew that Christians had been targeted in his reign of terror, but I didn't realize the ramifications of that then.
20
posted on
07/29/2003 11:36:02 AM PDT
by
twigs
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