Mubarak is an ally of mutual convenience, but he will never be a friend. I will never forget him personally lying to our ambassador, telling him that the Achilles Lauro hijackers had already left Egypt when we knew the plane was still on the gound (the same one Ollie North arranged to have intercepted by USAF jets). He’s a damned double-dealing low-life bastard, but we need him and he certainly needs us.
Thanks, I did not know this.