Well, apparently, that may not be true.
From the Egypt Daily News:
The exact condition of
former President Hosni Mubarak’s health remains a
mystery, as government officials variously
described him to the media as comatose, on life
support, and much improved, just hours after
Egypt’s state news agency pronounced him “clinically
dead,” in a
report on his late-night transfer from prison to a
hospital in an upscale district of the capital.
Compounding the confusion,
his lawyer “contradicted what he called false
reports in Egypt’s state-run media that the
imprisoned former president had nearly died,
insisting that Mr. Mubarak simply fell down in the
prison bathroom,” my colleagues
David Kirkpatrick and Kareem
Fahim report.
The flurry of conflicting
reports, coming as the deposed leader was moved to
the relative comfort of the military hospital in
Maadi, where the Shah of Iran
spent his last days,
prompted a wave of skepticism and mockery from
Egyptian bloggers and journalists, who accused the
government news agency MENA of exaggerating the
seriousness of Mr. Mubarak’s condition.
As my colleagues
explained late Tuesday,
“Mr. Mubarak has had health problems for years,
but the flood of reports and scares in recent
weeks led many Egyptians to believe that the
military rulers, determined to move Mr. Mubarak
out of a notorious prison, were using those
accounts to prepare the public for such a move.”
Officials
told The Times last week
that doctors overseeing Mr. Mubarak’s care in
prison had recommended transferring him to a
hospital, and that the third floor of the
well-appointed facility in Maadi had already been
prepared for him — one floor above
the suite reserved for the
Shah in 1980.
After
Mr. Mubarak’s lawyer told CNN late Tuesday that
the former president’s wife, Suzanne, was at her
husband’s side in the hospital, several bloggers
suggested that the family reunion was perhaps one
of many reasons the hospital was more comfortable
for the former president. http://www.egyptdailynews.com/
So, it appears the Egyptian media is followig the lead of Saturday Night Live
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