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Thursday
30Aug2007

Ailing Mubarak?

Too busy to write in more length about this today, but for over a week now the Egyptian (non-state) media has gone into another one of its Mubarak deathwatch modes. Last time was during the last big al-Ahly game, when Mubarak's absence at the match caused a panic among journos who believed the old man was agonizing. Too much wishful thinking... but that says a lot about the state that Egypt is in right now. More later on this hopefully!

Reader Comments (2)

[...] the Egyptian (non-state) media has gone into another one of its Mubarak deathwatch modes,” writes Issandr El Amrani, from Egypt. Share [...]

August 31, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterGlobal Voices Online » E

The regime is really overreacting to this. There was a headline in Masry al-Youm about the authorities blaming the rumours of al-rais's illness on an Ikhwan-Hamas-Saudi newspaper axis, out to defame Egypt.

September 3, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterSP

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