Reports: Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is ‘Clinically’ Dead
- Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:01pm by
Jason Howerton
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Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is wheeled into court in Cairo, Egypt. (AP File Photo)
CAIRO (AP) – Egypt’s ousted leader Hosni Mubarak is “clinically dead,” the country’s state media reported Tuesday.
Mubarak was moved out of prison to a military hospital 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.”
Mubarak’s heart has stopped beating and is not responding to defibrillation, state media reported.
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.
Muslim Brotherhood Presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi. (File photo)
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.
Mubarak suffered a stroke and is suffering a “fast deterioration of his health,” MENA said. Earlier, it said, his heart stopped and doctors had to use a defibrillator, and prison officials said he lost consciousness. TV images showed a convoy of ambulances and military vehicles transferring Mubarak from Torah Prison to nearby Maadi Hospital in a suburb south of Cairo.
Moving Mubarak out of prison is likely to further infuriate many in the public, where there is a widespread suspicion that security and military officials sympathetic to their old boss are giving him preferential treatment — so much so that some Egyptians dismiss repeated reports of his faltering health as a pretext for taking him out of prison.
Since June 2, Mubarak has been serving a life sentence at Cairo’s Torah Prison for failing to stop the killing of protesters during the 18-day uprising against his rule last year. The verdict against him has already been a spark for protests — thousands massed in Tahrir when the court acquitted him and his sons on separate corruption charges and cleared several top security chiefs on the protester killings.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (45)
wbaranowski
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:20pm“…And he’s not only merely dead,
he’s really most sincerely dead…”
And, he’s p******* about it, too.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:30amStrange… most of the Caliphs… and Kings of Jerusalem… had strange & sudden deaths! It must be the Middle East tyrant virus!
Report Post »Classical Liberal
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:51pm@lulerw, I was just thinking the same thing.
It is very strange when men die for no apparent reason and at such convenient times for their enemies.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:02pmHis heart has stopped beating…what is the difference between dead and clinically dead? Dead is dead either way. May he rest in peace…and may Obama have recurring night terrors for betraying one of our strongest allays.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:50pmYasser Arafat fell ill on October 25, 2004, fell into a coma and died in November 2004 at age
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was in a permanent vegetative state after suffering a stroke on January 4, 2006 (a son alleged Ariel was still alive 6 years later), & died on January 6, 2006 at age 77.
Now Mubarak had a stroke and is allegedly dead at age 84.
>Is it age or coincidence?
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:21pmI‘m surprised they didn’t say he slipped on a banana peel! LOL!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:21pmThe Arab spring is beginning to smell like death……..
Report Post »jjohnson_n_oklahoma
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:59pmSpirited.
Report Post »I am sorry to inform you, but you better check your facts again. Sharon’s death was only reported by one news outlet, and has been recanted. Sharon is still alive, making little progress, and is basically in an nursing facility. At least that is being reported by about a thousand news websites.
However, I do believe that all these strokes that are happening with Middle East leaders, could possibly be coincidence, or could be conspiracy. More likely is the result of in-superior health care.
Mapache
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:18pmI will not believe it until Geraldo shows up!
Report Post »califpatriot
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:59pmMoved to a military hospital? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Somebody needs to inform Obama & Clinton that in real life, things aren’t always perfect. There’s usually a good, better, best. While Hosni wouldn’t be my choice for a leader under whose rule I would like to live, ask the Coptic Christians, the seculars, the gays, and women whose hijabs aren’t on so tight, if they want to replace him with the Muslim Brotherhood. And there is NO moderate Muslim in the Brotherhood, just an Islamist in the proverbial closet until their numbers go up; then watch out!
Report Post »Turin
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:35pmYeah, what a shock. He must have been in really poor health. ;-)
Report Post »Gourdy
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:32pmBefore you all get too weepy about Mubarak, he was just convicted of being an accessory to 225 murders. And his reign was a military dictatorship. No one stays in power for over 30 years unless you’re a king or a dictator. Ask Fidel Castro about that.
Report Post »pissantno.10
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:28pmleast they did not stick a rifle up his behiny, mabey or ?
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:08pmWhy the sunglasses? He is dead. Are they afraid his eyes will open and they will have to shoot him again?
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:07pmHosni mubarak was not a bad guy.He was more or less neutral toward Israel and a friend of the US. We never learn. Carter did not support the Shah of Iran and look who took over there. Obama…the black Carter…did not support Mubarak in the ‘arab spring’ crap……..and now look who we have running that mudhole…the Muslim brotherhood. Our leaders are usually idiots…especially if they are socialist-democrats.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:57pmThought everyone knew that we are now in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood..who is the boss of Al Queda, Haamas.etc..it’s been in the news.. You are right..Mubarack was a friend to Israel and to the US..But..what can you expect when you have the un Federal Reserve bankrolling them through their Sharia Compliant Banks(which received 700 billion in TARP) like Goldman Sachs (who just happens to be Romnae’s biggest contributor followed by the rest of the banking cartels)…Those terrorrists are just mercenaries to the highest bidders, and lets face it..whose got more money than the Rothchild/Rockefeller un Federal Reserve. They have to manipulate us and the rest of the world somehow you know. They are busy transferring the wealth to themselves.
Report Post »PROSECUTE_PUBLIC_SERVANTS__FOR_CONSTITUTIONAL_TREASON
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:59pmAlthough the man was a evil leader, his blood is upon Obummers and NATO’s hands. They killed him. Their actions were against principles of national sovereignty of all nations. Actions of murder.
Report Post »Obummer is the biggest mass murderer in the last 7 1/2 years beside George Bush. Both are criminal mass murderers. Vile, wicked, evil leaders chosen by people who desire such. Christians are at fault for not being salt and light to America.
chips1
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:55pmDefibrillation is like trying to jump start a Prius. Tim Taylor is right. ” It NEEDSMORE POWER!!!
Report Post »Patriot5002
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:55pmGood
Report Post »marcus_arealius
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:53pmBut he still has more brain function than Biden + Gore + Obama put together.
Report Post »madvlad
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:00pmGood one!
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:36pmHa ha ha ha ha!!!!
Report Post »wordweaver
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:52pmWill O’Reilly announce his new book project tonight: “Killing Mubarak”?
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:51pmhell has new flesh to dine on MURDERING MUSLUMS will see HELl not heaven.. their god ALLAH FALSDE STONE IDOL i shed no tear nor have pitty…
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:43pmThe Muslim Brotherhood assassinated Sadat . Don’ the Obama Lefties read history ? I would think even Black history would cover Egypt . No ? Let me guess….
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:54pmHosni got hosed by the MB and he should have exterminated the MB years ago,it would have saved his bacon and more importantly helped us out a great deal.
Report Post »Micmac
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:33pmConvenient. Several Egyptian-American friends of mine 3 years ago said this all couldn’t happen when I brought up a similar scenero. They lose. Anything is possible. Prepare accordingly. There is so much mis-informantion, histronics and hyperbole that it takes a cool head to sift throught it all and deduce what appears to be the truth. MSM surely wont give it to you.
NoBama 2012
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:27pmNo pyramid for this guy.
Report Post »cracker_
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:23pmCan’t we all just get along?
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:16pmHOSNI MUBARAK IS DEAD … and, so is Egypt’s future, thanks to obama and the muslim brotherhood.
Report Post »muffythetuffy
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:20pmObama can now cross off one more name on his Official Kill List. Who pulled the plug?
Another good friend of America has been murdered by Obama.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:37pmAgree. Hey, Obama : How’s that Arab Spring and that “ democracy ” working for you now ??? Ho.Ho. The Democrats and their international Lefties are the biggest bunch of dopes . I hope our military is ready to protect us against these idiots and the equally crazy Muslim fanatics who are loose in this crazy world .
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:13pmDon’t rule out poisoning…
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:11pmThe man is lucky to be away from the hate and violence which the Muslim Brother hood will release upon his country all in the name of the “ social justice ” – which we have come to know means revenge and destruction.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:29pmAfter picking up the pieces of Egypt and making it a bit better nation with some freedom of religion and women’s right, the muslim brotherhood destroyed him. Well, the old saying applies egypt “be carefull what you wish for , you just might get it” They thought they were getting freedom and went along the the brothers, more fools they. Mubarak wasen’t perfect by a long shot, but what’s coming….umm, ummm, um.
Report Post »LB
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:10pmcover up
Report Post »Gourdy
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:05pmAnd the party is beginning in Tahir Square! Good riddance.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:47pmYeah. wonder how many females will be assaulted tonight….or maybe they’ll stay home. What a life .
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