Posted on 06/19/2012 2:44:39 PM PDT by marthemaria
Mubarak was moved out of prison to a military hospital Tuesday after the 84-year-old ousted leader suffered a stroke and his condition rapidly deteriorated, officials said, adding a new element of uncertainty just as a potentially explosive fight opened over who will succeed him, with both candidates claiming to have won last weekend's presidential election.
The developments add further layers to what is threatening to become a new chapter of unrest and political power struggles in Egypt, 16 months after Mubarak was ousted by a popular uprising demanding democracy.
The campaign of Mubarak's former prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, said Tuesday he has won Egypt's presidential election, countering the Muslim Brotherhood's claim of victory for its candidate, Mohammed Morsi.
The election commission is to announce the official final results on Thursday and no matter who it names as victor, his rival is likely to reject the result as a fraud. If Shafiq is declared winner in particular, it could spark an explosive backlash from the Brotherhood.
The Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful political group, is already escalating its challenge against the ruling military over the generals' move this week to give themselves overwhelming authority over the next president. Some 50,000 protesters, mostly Islamists, massed in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday evening chanting slogans in support of Morsi and denouncing the generals' power grab.
The health crisis of Mubarak, who is serving a life prison sentence, is yet one more thing to stoke the heat. His condition took a sharp turn for the worse Tuesday evening, the state news agency MENA reported, and officials transferred him from Torah Prison to the nearby Maadi military hospital - the same one where his predecessor Anwar Sadat was declared dead more than 30 years ago after being gunned down by Islamic militants.
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My prayers go out to him and his family. He was truly a visionary and loving father of his people, a giant among men. He will be sorely missed and mourned by all whose lives he touched. We are privileged to have lived in the shadow of his greatness. Time will not diminish the glory of his deeds.
“Ariel Sharon is still vegetating after about six years on life support. His stupid family did not allow him to die naturally.”
Maybe science will come up with a cure soon. It would be a mistake to lose faith in science...and in G-d.
The untold story is that they put him a box, a large one, and locked it, and on the outside wrote in indelible ink “CAT”.
See #23. We are thinking alike ~ kind of.
Is he officially and sincerely dead?...........
No, it’s still not clear he died.
Just like Raiders of the Lost Ark!
(too bad my pic broke)
Is Obama going to take credit for this too?
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