Posted on 07/30/2003 8:22:13 PM PDT by HAL9000
Madina stays to nurse Amin
Ms Madina Amin did not return home yesterday as expected.
She chose to remain in Saudi Arabia to continue attending her husband, former President Idi Amin.
Amin's daughter, Hajira, arrived alone yesterday aboard the British Airways flight BA 063. It is the same flight that should have brought back Madina.
Said a family source: "The condition in which Mzee is could not permit her to leave him. She is still in Saudi Arabia."
Madina Amin flew to Saudi Arabia on July 21.
Also initially expected to return with her yesterday were Amin's sons, Mr Hussein Kato, Mr Mao Amin and Mr Mwanga Amin.
But family sources yesterday said that they all took a last minute decision to remain by their father's bedside.
Hajira yesterday said that she did not want to talk to journalists.
Amin reportedly remains "hooked to life support machines from the toes to the head".
Amin, 80, was admitted to hospital on July 18.
He is suffering from hypertension and kidney failure.
Doctors wanted to carry out a kidney transplant but the hospital failed to get a donor with a perfectly matching organ.
© 2003 The Monitor Publications
"failed to get a donor " Whaaat???? Are you saying this bloody cannibal called Jane Goodall and she refused to take his call, not to mention provide him with a kidney?? I don't believe you. If Jane Goodall refuses to save Idi Amin, a truly magnificent tree ape, then the world is upside down, pure and simple.
To make friends, you must be friendly.
What have apes ever done to you to merit such a slur? You owe all apes an apology.
Oops. Guess Idi should have saved some of them.
You are quite correct. I apologize and withdraw the slur against all apes and other primates. But the guy WAS a cannibal and murdered a lot of people, even by modern standards. And of course our friends the Saudis gave him safe haven for twenty years, because he was a muslim, supposedly.
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