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June 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
On trial for his life, he escaped that gallows earlier this month when he was
sentenced to life in jail and taken to Tora prison on Cairo’s outskirts,
where his health has deteriorated, with doctors defibrillating him twice on
June 11.
Mubarak rose to power unexpectedly, when then President Anwar Sadat, who made
history by signing a peace deal with Israel, was gunned down by Islamist
militants on October 6, 1981 at a military parade in Cairo.
Mubarak took office a week later and ruled without interruption until last
year.
Islamic fundamentalist groups, including Al-Jihad, Gamaa Islamiyya and Talaeh
al-Fatah, were responsible for most of the attempts on Mubarak’s life.
The first came in 1993, a year after Islamists launched a violent campaign to
topple the secular government, when a bid to fire rockets at Mubarak’s plush
Cairo residence was foiled.
Later attempts included a plot to car-bomb the presidential motorcade in
Cairo.
In 1995, militants opened fire on the presidential motorcade in Addis Ababa, a
year after they tried to kill Mubarak with explosives as he was due to meet
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi at a military airport.
In September 1999, Mubarak was slightly wounded when a man with no apparent
links to any Islamic group stabbed him in Port Said.
With his jet black hair and aquiline nose, Mubarak had a reputation for vigour
and was once known to play squash almost daily.
But that was dented in 2003 when he fainted while addressing parliament.
Officials blamed his collapse on a cold and the fact that he had been fasting
during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
In 2004, he underwent surgery in Germany for a slipped disc, and he returned
to Germany in March 2010 for the removal of his gall bladder and a growth on
the small intestine.
Rumours that he had died under the knife were dispelled when state television
showed him recovering.
Mubarak’s health was usually a taboo subject in Egypt and the father of two,
whose wife Suzanne is half Welsh, kept his private life a carefully guarded
secret.
In 2007, speculation about his health snowballed to the extent that Mubarak
made an unscheduled public appearance to lay rumours to rest.
Mubarak was born on May 4, 1928 in the Nile Delta village of Menufiyah.
He rose through the ranks of the air force and fought in repeated wars with
Israel, to claim hero status before supporting Sadat in pursuing peace with
the Jewish state in 1979.
Throughout his years in power, he maintained the unpopular policy of peace
with Israel and accommodation with the West that cost Sadat his life.
His government was the frequent target of domestic opposition – ranging from
the Muslim Brotherhood to secular and liberal dissidents.
But the regime quashed militant groups, which carried out attacks in the
1980s, 1990s and, more recently, in 2004 and 2006, when tourist resorts were
targeted.
His ties with the United States and Israel drew criticism from across the
region, especially during the 2006 Israeli war in Lebanon and Israel’s Gaza
offensive in 2008-2009.
Domestic opponents accused Washington of turning a blind eye to human rights
abuses, corruption and the Mubarak regime’s failure to push ahead with badly
needed reforms.
Source: agencies
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