Reports: Former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak hospitalized, gravely ill

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:46:00 -0500

Hosni Mubarak, whose 30 year reign as Egypt's autocratic ruler came to an end last year, was reported to be clinically dead by Egypt's official news agency, but security officials insist he is actually unconcious and on life support, his heart having stopped beating and failing to respond to defibrillation.

Nikos Retsos

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:13:20 -0500

Mubarak is not gravely ill; the Egyptian Revolution is gravely ill!

Mubarak's clinically dead and slipping in and out of coma condition is quite fishy to me. I bet it is a ruse by the Egyptian military to usher him out to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment - supposedly not available in Egypt - where he can live free and happily ever after, along with former Tunisia's autocrat Ben Ali. I have no doubt that the Saudi royal family is working feverishly behind the scenes to free Mubarak, and there is no better ruse to extract him from Egypt than on a medical emergency that is portrayed as life threatening!

If that absconding is successful, I am sure his family would go along, so all of them will enjoy a princely life with their vast wealth. That is why Mubarak's sons were acquitted of corruption charges in a court presided by judges appointed by his father! At the same time, the Egyptian Military Junta is making sure that the Revolution is slowly smothered into a clinically dead, or comatose condition!

Mubarak is not a prisoner as he is portrayed. He is just under protection by his regime that still controls the army, the police, the Egyptian Supreme Court, and all government ministries. And now his escape plan seems to be unfolding! Nikos Retsos, retired professor, USA

PRI: Public Radio International

Reports: Former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak hospitalized, gravely ill

Nikos Retsos