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Subscribe to RSSHosni Mubarak's personal attorney says that the ousted Egyptian leader's condition has stabilized since suffering a stroke. NBC's Richard Engel reports from Cairo.
Egypt’s state news agency said former President Hosni Mubarak is "clinically dead" after multiple strokes, but a lawyer for Mubarak told NBC News early Wednesday that the ousted leader was clinging to life.
Mubarak, 84, had reportedly suffered multiple strokes and heart failure and had been moved late Tuesday to a military hospital from the prison hospital where he was being treated. He was reported to be on life support.
His health has been deteriorating since 3 p.m. (9 a.m. ET), his lawyers told NBC. He suffered two or three strokes and his heart had to be restarted with a defibrillator, they said.
Video on Hayat TV showed an ambulance taking Mubarak to 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.
"He is in really bad shape," a U.S. official told NBC News.
The confusion over the state of health of the former leader came as his longtime opponents in the Muslim Brotherhood claimed victory of their candidate, Mohammed Morsi, over Ahmed Shafiq, a candidate drawn from the military elite in a presidential election held over the weekend.
An 18-day uprising ended Mubarak’s 30-year rule on Feb. 11, 2011, sparking months of social unrest and political turmoil.
Speculation about Mubarak's health had swirled since he was jailed effectively for life on June 2 for failing to halt the killings of hundreds of the protesters who toppled him.
Philippe Bouchon / AFP - Getty Images
The President of Egypt for nearly 30 years, Mubarak was an advocate for peace in the Middle East and a major U.S. ally, but Egyptians eventually grew tired of his corrupt regime and he was ousted in a popular revolt in February 2011.
He had been moved to Tora prison hospital from a plush military hospital where he was held during the 10-month trial.
Critics had said his illness was being exaggerated to win public sympathy. Egypt's official news agency earlier this month denied reports that Mubarak had slipped into a coma.
Slideshow: Life of Hosni Mubarak
Egypt's prison authority on June 11 approved a request to let Mubarak's eldest son, Alaa, who is being held at the jail pending trial, stay close to him in the prison hospital because of his deteriorating health, security sources said.
His youngest son, Gamal, once viewed as heir-apparent to the presidency and who is also detained pending trial, was moved closer to him earlier.
Mubarak’s wife, Suzanne, and the wives of his two sons visited him earlier this month and demanded he be moved to a hospital outside prison.
This report from Charlene Gubash, NBC News Cairo producer, includes information from Reuters and The Associated Press.
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Karma's a bitch.
Yle.fi is citing MENA (Egyptian news agency) Mubarak suffered a brain infacrt and is clinically dead. He was tranferred from the prison hospital to the military hospital. After the verdict in court on way to Tara prison- Mubarak suffered a heart attack that was not properely taken care of- prison authorities denied access tgo his military hospital doctoras to attend to him. With Mubarak's death- it is also the death of secular Egypt.
Mubarak wasn't secular. He liked to play on both sides of the fence.
A prolonged execution. I am surprised that they kept him alive this long.
Mummified his AZZ..and bury him under a cell phone tower..in a thousands years they will go nuts over this!
It's Egypt..what you expect from them!
He needs that Libyan doc who gave the Pan Am murderer only 6 months, then hung on for nearly 5 years.
He should be remembered as a hero since he kept all the mudslime in check, now, hells loose in the valleys of Egyp where only a smart dictator is required to control so many uncivilized mudslime.
Yes, karma is a bitch.
Fitting. He was brain dead while in office anyway. His body just needed to catch up!
Yup, Mubarak was a goner a long time ago, after his departure from being President of Egypt.
He made the right choice. Never spend prison in a Middle East/North African prison.
He would have been tortured, or beheaded. Not a kind place to live, like his own Palace or Palace's lined with 24K Gold everything.
He was about the best of the worst Dictators in this Region.
indeed
Mubarak was our stanch ally for 30 years , helping keep the peace with Israel and suppressing the Muslim Brotherhood. Our treatment of him was disgraceful and will be instructive to other leaders around the world who consider whether to trust us and support us----- the clear answer is , no. Don't cast your lot with us ,we will betray our friends and support our enemies. Ah, one pines for leaders like FDR , TR , Truman , Reagan.
"Ding dong the dick is dead...."
I love how you vultures spout crap like "karma" at someone whom you had no idea existed until a year ago. Hopefully for you the same isnt said when you shed your mortal coil. This guy was not a Khadafi or an Assad. He kept the people of Egypt safe and his reign allowed for all relgion. Now lets see just how fast Sharia law is enforced and all the Koptic Christians are thrown to the wolves.
Oh my god..there has to be at least 6,327 people in Tahrir square protesting!
Who freaking cares..I don't!
I do not put him in the same category as the rest of the "Rat-Pack but he was not always the nicest of guys. He fired on his own people and was responsible for many deaths. I suppose that in the Middle east, he is considered to be one of the good guys. If I offended you with my previous post I apologize.
Getoveryourself, awesome post. You are spot on.
Oh, now there's a great loss.....
Gary...You nailed it. This pro-radical Islam administration betrayed him in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood, effectively lighting the fuse on the powderkeg in the Middle East. By demanding that Assad step down, they are trying to do the same thing in Syria.
People don't realize who these "protesters" seeking "freedom" really are. Negotiations and trying to deal with them is pointless. We should be helping these dictators keep a lid on the radical Islam attempts to overthrow them. These nation's leaders know how to deal with them, as opposed to ours who try to convince us we are the bad people for not wanting these savages coming here.
How did it work out for us when the Shah was run out of Iran? We are promoting that several times over right now. One more reason to not allow Obama to continue in power.
As dictator for many years poor ol' Mubarak was also a billionaire many times over. When you are a beotch for Zionist Israelis and the international bankster war profiteers a relatively quick death at an old age is too good for him. Obama is their lap dog too. You can tell by the bail out scam and that he does not say anything about the real 16.1 trillion bail out amount. Barry Soetoro does not say anything about the war profiteers that have made billions off of US taxpayers neither because he is also a Zionist beotch. One thing I'll say about Dubbya Bush, since his grand daddy was Prescott Bush, Hitler's banker, at least we all knew what kind of devil spawn was in charge. Too bad the military (Zionist Owned) will still be in charge in Egypt and not the Muslim Brotherhood President dude. There is always hope that the international bankster war profiteers will get theirs...
With all the Bull@!$%# you lay down on your path, in the end we are either at piece with the ones that love us or circling the drain alone like this POS.
No 72 virgins for this @!$%#wad. The only thing he has to show is the lip prints on his ass of every American President since Reagan.
a military leader, that kept the radical Muslim sect in check for many years, that allowed Christian, Roman Coptic, Orthodox to exist side by side; now he is a great Satan; there is no democracy in the middle east, except Israel.
Why would they resuscitate this man? Do they just want to make him suffer more?? I say let him go, he has suffered enough and deserves to die in peace!!! This man maintained peace and honor in a country populated by an Islamic majority, he allowed ALL religions to be practiced without judgement or consequence, kind of like we do here in the good ole' USA.
This was one of the only 'good' dictators in all of history, without him, the middle east would be 100% radicalized and Isreal would be a small pile of ash...
You're giving the old man way too much credit; I've spent time with Coptic Christian refugees. In retrospect, however, he will look like Thomas Jefferson in comparison to the Brotherhood.
he will look like the pope, Thomas Jefferson, and Lincoln all smashed together in one person compared to the brotherhood
The fools who claim Mubarak is a Billionaire, please show me the money! Those who claim he was a ruthless dictator, I can show you roads, infrastructure, communications networks, libraries, tourist industry, peace, rights (albeit limited) for religious minorities. safetynet food programs, food distribution networks, etc...
Now that the Muslim brotherhood is in charge, let's see the miracles they promise.
Mubarak loved his Egypt and did what he could with scant resources. He tried. He left office because he didn't want the affliction to the Egyptions that is the case in Syria. But now his worst nightmare is realized.
Mubarak stayed in power too long. It was his downfall. He didn't own Egypt, but was its leader.
Now we have the Islamicists. Muhammad Atta, Sayyid Qutb, Ayman Al-Zawahiri are the new Egypt. The Luxor Massacre is thier first celebrated victory.
Cling on Mubrarak!
"Live long and suffer."
Yep, his karma's comming due. And if one looks at what some who have claimed to have near death experiences have had to say, the "best part" is yet to come, when he'll get to experience that life review. Far from 72 virgins, it'd be more like experienncing first hand, all the experiences of his victims, and getting to feel what they felt, as if it was all being done to him :p Oh boy, he might find that lieing in that there hospital bed was the easy part, if that's what he's got to go through, before getting "sorted out" :p Cause it might be no tunnel of light for him :o
Oh, and on the treaty with Israel, Sadat had more to do with that, then this guy who simply maneaged to avoid a gun shot when Sadat was assasinated....
If Mubarrak has lived for a few years in prison, there might have been some satisfactory resolution to Eqypt's political turmoil. Many, many of Mubarrak's opponents were jailed and released, jailed and released. So if Mubarrak were alive and healthy and in prison, his supporters and the military could have accepted other governments under the knowledge that Mubarrak could be a free men at any moment. And while in prison, Mubarrak could have continued very limited political activities. But this evidently won't happen.
Instead you have a very explosive situation. The Muslim Brotherhood as pretty much a centrist group as far as religious-based socio-political organizations can be. The MB truly represents about 35% of the Egyptian people, tops --- and around 20% if you factor in non-voting women. The three large telling issues with the MB than can be used as a kind of litmus test are a) they want the immediate and total suppression of women's rights, especially voting. b) they want a much more aggressive stance against Israel, c) there is considerable overt hatred between the military and the MB, mostly because of past maltreatment of MB prisoners by the military. So, even though they came to power through legitimate democratic means, they, as the world's largest Muslim country, pose a serious threat to the stability of the country. Their support are the poorly educated, highly religious, grossly underemployed poor, especially in Cairo.
2) About 15% of Equptians belong to an ancient Christian denomination --- the Copts. These people trace their roots directly into the Old Testament and very earlkiest days of the Christian Church. While they have always lived as "People of the Contract" and had surprisingly little conflict with Muslims, the earlier protests showed a huge amount of cracks in that solidarity. It may well beyond the power of the MB to muzzle the tiger that they are trying to unleash. The Copts will likely be a major victim if the MB is able to consolidate power.
3) An old Mubarrak crony finished second, but is claiming victory anyway. This guy was a bad face to put on secularism. Simply too many connections to the old regieme. But he also probably has the solid backing of the military.
4) Right now you have a country without a leader, without a parliament, and without a constitution. The constituition will be written by a panel picked by the military and the parliament will pretty much be with the forebrearance of the military and the powers of a new president will be defined byt the military. With that much political power, the Egyptian military is definitely in the driver's seat.
My guess is that the military will continue to do what it has been doing --- restrict the powers of parliament and any president unfriendly to secularism and the military. They will try to do this using the political process as much as possible. But if the MB brings people to the street to support its victory, the military will be ruthless and most MB leaders will find themselves in prison very quickly.
People don't realize that Attaturk pretty much defined a new role for the military in the Middle East --- that as "protectors of democracy." The military in a large number of Muslim countries see their role as that of enforcing secularism and stability. They are willing to allow the civilian government to function only as long as it does not interfere with the military's ability to function as a sort of political hall monitor. But cross the military and the crackdown after the 1981 assassination of Sadat will look like child's play.
Just being me.., don't smear every follower of a religion. You're suspended for a day for violating #5 of the Code of Honor.
i respond to gary-309869's friends, i wish you were egyptian and you spend some times in the secret service prison without any crime but because you are muslim this is the crime also there is no court or any lawyers they just take you from your home in the early time of dawn and no one knows any thing about you that mubarak or sadat or nasser regimes it was dictatorship and tyrant regime i wish you try it once you will never feel that you are human or even lower animal, please if you want to talk about middle eastern tyrants you have to live over there to get the real truth, you are in america have a cars houses entertainments but over 40 % of egyptians live in real under under poverty means in slums and in gabage places after (egypt the 1st civilization) the whole world amazed abouth those human being 7000 years of dignity it destroyed in 60 years since 1952 over thrown the king farook and you have to be ashamed of yourself if you think one second that mubarak was a good for his people , he is going to be in the tash of history thanks
If he is jailed "for life", then why are they trying to save him? Seems like his "life" is trying to say it's over.
i am sitting here asking the same question... i realize that my taxes do not support him... but if you have a "life sentence"... and you die... sentence is over... be done with keeping the man in a cage...
To EM-318615,
You say he "is jailed for life so why are they trying to save him?" Well, for the same reason you treat and feed a fallen enemy you have shot just minutes ago.
he got life ...so he's getting it
I do not, nor will I ever, treat and feed an enemy I have shot moments before! :-)
@ EM-318615............. Well maybe feed him some more lead.
Clinically dead= no more brain function as neurons do not re-grow. Someone has to pull the plug eventually!!! Costly death.
You feed your enemy not to make him happy, but to show mercy, for if you dont show mercy, niether will the other guy...
My wonderful neighbors are Egyptian and worried to death about the fate of their homeland. I am sorry for all the people who suffer under the hand of dictators but, God help us if the "Muslim Brotherhood" takes over. The world will have another Iran on its hands...Mubarak was no angel and he probably deserves this miserable death but, we are still here left to deal with another maniacal theocracy on the horizon. There is no rejoicing in death and destrution in my neighborhood. We already have enough of that. May Egypt and her people find a peaceful solution to this crisis. I agree with you Vyor...mercy begets mercy....inhumanity, the same.
It is almost always sad to see anybody dies...
In few extreme cases, its ok to say "Oh well.." Considering what this modern slave has done to his people to appease isreali masters...
Abd, strap some explosive on and go visit your 72 virgins
@omityone
oh I love it. lol I have to borrow that one from you. lol love it.
I do not like boys, But I can make an exception for an a-hole like you.. Forget the virgins......
So .... Abd... is going pervert over Omityone's opinion. What a sense of personal values, oh well, so typical of the muslim religion.
At least Abdallah is not such a foolish loyal goyim; blindly hating and killing for those who unconstitutionally hold Amerika by the FIAT purse strings.
But fiat is a spanish company???? troololololololololololohohohohohohohohohoho!!!
trolled :)
Blind hatred will eat up your insides each and every time. you forget that it was the Islamaic Brotherhood that wanted to take rights away from women. Under Murbarak, Egypt did not descend into the chaos that is at the door. go ahead and hate him if that will make you feel better, but in the end the hate will come back upon you.
Bens,
Don't be jealous, I'll put you on my "to do" list..
He honored the treaty signed by his predecessor, and you would criicize him for that?
How is it he seemed to be okay until the last few days...I don't buy this for a second and if he is at death's door...death please open it.
ass hole
Egypt state radio now says he's "clinically dead." guess they finally checked his temperature. you know, his condition with the best of care has been so bad, they should have used an axe instead. I see this as cheating on his life sentence to get out early.
"In other news, deposed Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarek is attending secret high-level talks with Generalissimo Fransisco Franco at an undisclosed location."
that enough for ya?
I truly don't believe he's alive. I think they probably killed him shortly after his incarceration.
why any one care , people dye every day
Do they use Rit?
I personally use ProChemicals Fibre reactive dyes for cotton and other plant materials - I don't dye many animal-based materials.
how can someone screw up a three letter word??? die=dead dye=a coloring agent
I've never seen ProChemicals for sale. Where do you get it?
They have a website. I buy the MX Reactive dyes. You'll need urea as well and plain salt. The dyes last SO much longer than just about anything you can buy in a store.
http://www.prochemicalanddye.com/home.php
Ding dong the witch is dead!
60% of you cannot spell and/or have horrible grammar.
68% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
I've always figured in the 70-80% range. I don't count obvious typos but grammar and sentence structure are often tortuous. There are also some very intelligent people here who just don't care.
5 out of 4 people don't understand fractions!
LOL I've had good laughs here.
95% of straight men prefer their porn girl-on-girl.
Figures lie and liars figure, Barry obama.
dont give a @!$%# zafa. oh and miss deanna your spot on the money.
Vatican Poll : 2 popes out of 5 believe in god.
" . . . Hosni Mubarak 'clinically dead,' . . . "
Is there another kind?
Yes, there is. It's the kind where the heart has stoped beating, and there is no reason to get it going again because the eeg (brain-wave trace) has flat-lined.
How about morally bankrupt like out POTUS.
A person who is clinically dead is a person whose heart has stopped beating. Ergo, no circulation, no O2 to the brain.
I maintain that is dead. . . period. Much medical terminology is gobbledygook made up by doctors overly impressed with themselves.
Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back. How about a person who's heart has been intentionally stopped by surgeons so that they can perform surgery on their stilled heart? No heartbeat. Dead? Clinically dead, yes. But when the surgery has reached its succcessful conclusion, the heart will be re-started, and the patient will go to recovery, and then to ICU for the first part of the recovery process. So, is this gobbledygooK? Or is it cutting a finer shade of definition than you can handle? By way of history, I was "clinically dead" when my heart was stopped to replace a damaged valve. The aortic valve had been damaged by undiagnosed, untreated strep throat. It had to be replaced to avoid an enlarged - and thus greatly weakened - heart.
Until the greedy sob is dead I don't have a minute for his selfishness. My best hope is that his God is how he declared.
Well now isn't that convenient.
That's what I thought too.
A great man, a great world leader, I'm glad he did not have to suffer indignities for long. May God rest his valiant soul!
how do you know if he's great leader, you have to talk to him or to see what did he left in poor egypt****40 % under poverty**** the worst economy in middle east, the terrible security, facist army leaders, chaos in legislatives horrible fake constitution and he invented new bad generations of national party members also bad and decieving news media tv news papers and talk show idiots, how he will meet god? with what he had done to egyptians , god please give him what he deserves.
Esayed ------ If Egyptians want a better life they need to embrace freedom and equal treatment for all members of society, not just members of the state religion. Embrace science , free enterprise , separation of church and state. Empower women , half of society , by giving them equal rights with men. Elect women to positions of authority. Allow them to dress as they please. Encourage open philosophical enquiry regardless of where it leads. Teach all children academic subjects and jettison religious teaching in the schools. Establish a fair and just system of laws that apply to every member of society equally and enforce them. Respect property rights and extend them to every member of society on an equal basis.
"the worst economy in middle east"... ever heard of Somalia? Think that the Somalies are worse off than Egypt.
The guy led a cleptocracy, and tried to set up his son to succeed him without any elections or anything else when the time came -- and yet he was probably the most benevolent dictator of his generation in the Middle East. Says a lot about that region, doesn't it?
gary, go away, 70% of the world is religious, get over yourself...
IMHO if he had poured more money for 30 years to improve the life of his fellow citizens - instead of piling up billions of dollars for himself - he may have limited the spread of the islamic guys that now do the job and buy off the voice of the people while providing buckets of money and goods provided by all-times underminer "neighbor" Saudi Arabia.
When people say "He will be missed". They are NOT speaking about this loser. What a terrible person. He was terrible for Egypt and its people. Time is up for him, and the world is a better place for it.
i agree with john,thank god that he is dead but the funny thing thatn his sons will get out of jail and get out of egypt and live in europ with the billions of dollars they stole from egyptians do you think after they smuggled the money any one can get them back!!!!!!!!!.
yes, now look at the wonderful regime taking over. I am sure everyone will be so happy now.
He's 84 years old, how long did they reasonably expect him to live? He's now serving an eternal life sentence for the many atrocities he is guilty of. That is way more than any punishment man could deal.
Strait to hell.
Why not hang him anyway, before he really dies?
Obama should keep having people he doesn't like toppled. Just look how great the countries are doing now.
Let me guess...no oxygen and no attempt to restart his heart....just good sound muslim brotherhood medicine. In short they stood around and watched as he died.
While Egypt's dictator may be dead, his policies will live on for much longer. As shown here, under his reign, the use of torture and rape to intimidate Egyptians held in custody was widely reported and the use of rigged elections was rampant in both local and national elections:
He and military were very cushy with one another. He isn't dead, they just relocated him somewhere. The timing is too coincidental. He is probably on the same island that Kenny Lay is on.
Actually I was waiting for someone to say he is in a private resort with OBL right now ... they didn't have the body, so they had to say something ...
Hemlock anyone?
nice reporting he has reported that like a week ago..
The rumors of Mubarak's death are greatly exagerated. He's not dead until the Egyptian military announces his successor, then they will say he's dead.
Unless DNA samples are taken and tested by an independent and trustworthy outside agency to verify Mubarak is the dead person, I remain suspicious of any reporting of his death.
how is dna going to prove if he's alive or dead ?
It won't, but it will determine if that's the original Mubarak and not a segregate as most folks fear..
Are you saying that he engaged in segregation? Just like an Egyptian George Wallace?