Hosni Mubarak is dead

[Princess Luna]

Egypt's state news agency MENA says deposed leader Hosni Mubarak is "clinically dead" after he was moved from prison to a hospital.

According to an interior ministry spokesman, he suffered a stroke and his condition rapidly worsened on Tuesday.

The spokesman, Alaa Mahmoud, said late on Tuesday that Mubarak, 84, was moved by ambulance from the hospital in Torah Prison to nearby Maadi Hospital in southern Cairo.

State TV earlier said Mubarak was in a "critical" condition and had been placed on a respirator.

MENA said Mubarak's heart stopped and a defibrillator was used to restart it.

The prison official said doctors reported that he had fallen unconscious.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.

Mubarak was sentenced to a life in prison on June 2 for failing to stop the killing of protesters during last year's uprising against him.

He was transferred to prison after spending months in a military facility in detention. Officials have since repeatedly reported his health is deteriorating.

Since his arrival at the prison directly after his sentencing, Mubarak has been suffering from high blood pressure and breathing difficulties and deep depression, according to prison officials.

His lawyer said he did not trust the doctors and appealed for his transfer to a better equipped hospital.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/06/2012619193851869222.html

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[RedAnarchist]

This will bring some sort of closure for the Egyptian people.

[Martin Blank]

He probably died with a smile on his face, given what's happened in Egypt over the last week.

[Le Socialiste]

The Yahoo! article has been singing his praises:


Mubarak ruled Egypt for nearly 30 years, steering the nation through the turmoil that swept a Middle East buffeted by wars, terrorism and religious extremism. But the war hero and savior of his country died as a criminal convicted for his role in the deaths of those fighting to oust him.

...

During his presidency, Mubarak was a key U.S. ally in the Middle East, a stalwart against the West's Islamist enemies, even joining the 1999 invasion of Iraq. He was also able to rebuild relationships with neighboring countries that were strained after Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel.

Mubarak kept the peace with Israel while keeping Egypt free from Islamic militarism. On Nov. 17, 1997, an Islamic militant group killed 58 tourists and four Egyptians at an ancient temple near Luxor. Reuters called it the "most dramatic act in a 1990s rebellion by Islamists seeking to establish an Islamic state." The revolt was eventually crushed by state security.

I'm sure most Egyptians will welcome the news.

[Princess Luna]

State media had reported that Mubarak had died after being taken to a military hospital this morning.

But two security sources quoted by the Reuters news agency said the former president was unconscious and on a respirator, but was still alive.

"He is completely unconscious. He is using artificial respiration," one military source told Reuters.

Another separate security source gave the same account and dismissed the report issued by the state news agency saying: "It is still early to say that he is clinically dead."

Minutes earlier the MENA state media service had reported that "former president Hosni Mubarak has clinically died following his arrival at Maadi military hospital on Tuesday evening," quoting medical sources.

"Mubarak's heart stopped beating and was subjected to a defibrillator several times but did not respond," MENA said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-20/mubarak-declared-clinically-dead/4080686

[Prometeo liberado]

My understanding is that he is not dead yet. His political career is but actual physical death may be hours away.

[Permanent Revolutionary]

Sic semper tyrannis

[Teacher]

He is back to life now

[A Revolutionary Tool]

This will bring some sort of closure for the Egyptian people.
Will it? My guess is people would like to see Mubarak hang, not to see Mubarak die naturally.

[piet11111]

I would not be surprised if the military tries to smuggle him out of the country to avoid having him on trial and potentially spill all the beans on the rest of the regime.

[MustCrushCapitalism]

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/06/201262071226894209.html
Nope. He'll be kicking the bucket soon though, probably, with his current condition.

[Yazman]

Whether Mubarak dies or not is irrelevant, it is naive to think that the removal of one man from power will significantly affect the status quo in Egypt, and as we can see the same bureaucracy that kept him in power, remains in power.

[Bandito]

Nobody in Serbia was happy when Milošević died in prison.

Reason?

We all wanted to see the fucker hanged by the balls on a town square, not dead as an old man in a comfortable international jail cell with TV, cigarettes and macaroni.

[Yazman]

Nobody in Serbia was happy when Milošević died in prison.

Reason?

We all wanted to see the fucker hanged by the balls on a town square, not dead as an old man in a comfortable international jail cell with TV, cigarettes and macaroni.

Yeah, there is a certain morbid satisfaction in seeing a mass murderer die like that. It's fucked up to say but you are right in a way.

[Prometeo liberado]

By obsessing over the life or death of one person one tends to take the collective eye off the prize. This isn't personal war, it's Class War.

[Robocommie]

By obsessing over the life or death of one person one tends to take the collective eye off the prize. This isn't personal war, it's Class War.

Yes, but we're also not herd animals, and have a hard time sublimating our identities to our class.

[Die Neue Zeit]

This demise reminds me of Slobo's own; conviction, life sentence, death shortly after sentencing.

[Ocean Seal]

I would not be surprised if the military tries to smuggle him out of the country to avoid having him on trial and potentially spill all the beans on the rest of the regime.
It seems easier to just kill him and claim that it was an overzealous MB guy.

Anyway, meh, tyrants die every month.

[wsg1991]

this some very good caricature about Mubarak
how the tiny head stayed in jail , while the entire fat body of the system got out ( innocence )

[Fennec]

This demise reminds me of Slobo's own; conviction, life sentence, death shortly after sentencing.

Milošević wasn't convicted, he died while still on trial. This is often used by his supporters insisting on "innocent until proven guilty."

[Yazman]

By obsessing over the life or death of one person one tends to take the collective eye off the prize. This isn't personal war, it's Class War.

Yeah. One person doesn't make a whole lot of difference anyway - like I said earlier Mubarak was in power due to an group of entities full of people keeping him in power. Not because he's some sort of mystical superman.