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The images appeared to be a bid to show that control of the armed forces was still in the hands of Mr. Mubarak and his regime.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced he would not run for a new term but rejected protesters' demands he step down immediately.

Or, as a writer in The Washington Times lamented last week: "Mr Mubarak may have been a tinpot dictator, but he supported America. "

Since Mr Mubarak had never anointed a deputy, this was widely seen as a first step to his own graceful retirement.

But the "very good upside" Mr Obama discerned when he abandoned Mr Mubarak in February is no longer such a sure thing.

Whatever the high-level assessments were, there seemed to be at least a strong suspicion that [Mubarak] would stay in power.

Mubarak said he and his wife, only to bank accounts in Egypt, there is no deposit in overseas, nor any real property.

He unwisely called Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak the "wisest of men" , only to see him toppled.

Mr. Mubarak's military backers, beneficiaries of that aid, worried that he was no longer a reliable source of revenue.

Look at how much disillusionment there is next door in Egypt today, eight months after Hosni Mubarak was ousted.

In the interview, Mr. Mubarak said he never intended to have Gamal become president after he retired.

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak tried to leave power in the hands of his vice president, a move negated only when the army stepped in.

Egypt's young liberal middle-classes are discovering that they were not the only forces set free by the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak.

The next few days will determine whether President Hosni Mubarak is forced out or gets his way and clings on to power until September.

And returning to our main story, we've just heard that Mr Mubarak said he would be transferring some of his powers to the vice president.

When Obama flew to Cairo a few days later to deliver a landmark speech to the Arab and Muslim world, Mubarak did not attend.

On behalf of the American people, we congratulate Muslims in the United States and around the world on this blessed day. Eid Mubarak.

Succession in each Arab state seems to follow its own rules and, after Mr Mubarak dies, a power-grabbing junta cannot be ruled out.

On February 2nd, echoing Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, he said he would not run in the presidential election, due in 2013.

The private talk, increasingly, is no longer about whether Mr Mubarak should go, but who might be able to take his place if he does.

Economic stagnation was one of the main causes of the wave of frustration that finally swept Mr Mubarak from power.

He made no mention of his host, President Hosni Mubarak, a snub surely noticed by Egypt's autocratic ruler of nearly three decades.

After Mr. Mubarak's speech, the White House was consumed with a sense of 'disbelief, ' a U. S. official said.

The incident took place while Mr. Mubarak was being questioned by authorities investigating him for alleged corruption and abuse of power.

Organizers said the Mubarak sympathizers would be wearing black, with the victory marchers in white.

Many seemed to expect that Mr Mubarak and his co-defendants would be accused, tried and convicted in a few hours of legal drama.

For a moment on Saturday afternoon, it seemed as though Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had been ousted in a military coup.

The question on the table would have been unthinkable just a week before. Should Mr. Obama call for Mr. Mubarak to step down?

Doctors treating the former President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, have denied a claim by his lawyer that he's gone into a coma.

By contrast, former President Hosni Mubarak's Egypt was a military state to which the police were subordinate.

An Israeli official said the rampage marked a further deterioration of diplomatic ties between Israel and Egypt since the fall of Mubarak.

Obama said he told Mubarak that he believed: the orderly transfer, must be meaningful, must be peace, and must start now.

Pro-Mubarak youths were interviewed and allowed to claim that the anti-Mubarak protesters were all foreigners and Jews.

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is getting a re-trial over the killing of protestors in the uprising got ousted of him.

Mubarak may have been a military man with an entrenched military apparatus, he was still one man, Nafaa points out.

Mubarak treated Egypt as if it was his own estate, its people his serfs.

Hosni Mubarak's regime looks as if it is trying to snuff out the protests. Can it be stopped?

Mr Mubarak's son Gamal is often tipped as the old man's successor.

Indeed, it was the new Egyptian government's first foreign venture since the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak in February.

How the Mubarak family made its billions "A government by organized money is just as bad as a government by organized mob" .

Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, was annoyed but ordered his troops to let them in, saying they were "starving due to an Israeli siege" .

Mubarak said the friendly cooperative relationship between the two countries in all areas has been developing well.

When the Muslim Brotherhood won 20% of seats six years ago, it was the only party that presented a real alternative to Mr Mubarak.

The regime and its opponents remain far apart on the question of Mr. Mubarak's immediate future.

Authorities did not specify which military hospital Mr. Mubarak would be moved to on Friday.

We hope he made those points directly when he met Mr. Mubarak and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

Though needing to make changes, it is cramped by hostility to the market reforms launched in the last years of the Mubarak regime.

Military leaders will inevitably face pressure to deliver the genuine transition that protesters did not trust Mr. Mubarak to give them.

The cover of Hosni Mubarak's official biography showed him seated with toddling Mohamed, about 2, standing in front of him.

By the time Mr Mubarak decided to speak, three days later, it seemed too late to turn the tide.

As the pro-Mubarak forces pressed into the space, the protesters formed a human chain to try to keep them out of the area.

Twenty-nine years of Hosni Mubarak's stolid, unimaginative rule have brought his country its longest stretch of peace for a century.

It was widely rumoured that, shocked by the death of his favourite grandson from illness in May, Mr Mubarak had a mild stroke.

Protest organizers said the opposition would make no concessions until Mubarak leaves office.

But public pressure to hold the Mubarak family to account had been mounting in recent months with large demonstrations calling for a trial.

The task of managing the mess has fallen to an interim government of technocrats, former opposition politicians and a few Mubarak holdovers.

It did not help matters that Mr Suleiman addressed the nation next, praising Mr Mubarak and calling on the youth to return to work.

Egyptians returned to Tahrir Square to celebrate one month since the start of protests that led to the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak.

His predecessor Gamal Abdel Nasser was known for using Egyptian colloquial in speeches, but Mr Mubarak was having none of it last night.

Mubarak is responsible for monitoring the health status of the doctors said he had heart problems, very weak.

And he say as he did in the case of Mubarak in Egypt Gadaffi are living very affectively.

To his credit, Mr Erdogan was the first Muslim leader to tell Egypt's Hosni Mubarak to step down.

If you place Mubarak in the long parade of corrupt American-backed militarist thugs, then the key to understanding Egypt ceases to be Islam.

"I was working with Magdy before the revolution but I waited until Mubarak resigned to sell it. It was entirely serendipitous, " he said.

They had shielded Mr Mubarak himself in respect for his three decades' service as their commander-in-chief.

At the end, Mubarak took pride in the claim that he would not quit the land, would not give up his country to chaos.

He said Mubarak has authorized the Supreme Council of the Egyptian armed forces in charge of state affairs.

President Mubarak has said he'll continue to do his duty under the constitution until power is transferred after elections in September.

Two European officials said the names of Mr. Mubarak and his immediate family weren't on the list.

For all its cathartic importance, however, Mr Mubarak's trial must not be allowed to obscure the guilt of other former officials.

As Mubarak's reaction to the protests made clear, he failed to understand how the country had changed in 30 years.

Opposition protesters continued to press their case Thursday that Mr. Mubarak's concession wasn't enough.

Mr Mubarak's lawyer insists the former president is seriously ill. Our correspondent says many Egyptians are sceptical about this.

Mubarak's wife pledged Monday to hand over to the state money in two bank accounts and a luxury villa in Cairo.

In Egypt there was never any prospect of a rival candidate being allowed to defeat Mr Mubarak, who has been president since 1981.

With his police in disgrace, Mr Mubarak sent in his army and decreed what only weeks before would have been seen as a radical change.

As the Mubarak regime's patron and armourer, the Americans have had a tricky balance to strike.

Again and again throughout the crisis, Mr Mubarak declared his determination to serve out the remaining seven months of his term.

As a weakened Mubarak leaned more on his Army to save him, the generals' first targets were the "businessmen" in the cabinet.

As it became increasing clear Mr. Mubarak wasn't resigning, many in the crowd began to hiss.

The opposition, long opposed to any "inheritance of power" within the Mubarak family, has reacted swiftly.

The soldiers have done nothing to stop the crowds spraying anti-Mubarak graffiti on their armoured vehicles.

When asked about his future, the younger Mubarak prefers to say only that his work in the party is quite enough to keep him busy.

Mubarak might be hated by them, but he was our man in Cairo: 'family', as Hillary Clinton put it.

'Mubarak is not going to be the agent of change, ' said Tom Malinowski, the Washington advocacy director of Human Rights Watch.

Then, dismayed and wrong-footed by Mr Mubarak's defiant refusal to stand down on Thursday night, President Obama sharpened his tone.

A tourist in Cairo spots three photographs on the wall of a restaurant: one of Nasser, another of Sadat, and the third of Hosni Mubarak.

Mr Mubarak, like the rest of the Arab world's autocrats, will be pondering the despot's eternal dilemma.

The Egyptian army said on Monday it would not use force against those staging protests to demand Hosni Mubarak, president, step down.

The army will continue to run the show, as it has since 1952 through onetime officers like Hosni Mubarak, and will ensure continuity.

There was no video image accompanying the recording of Mr. Mubarak's voice.

When they filled the squares of Cairo, Italy praised Hosni Mubarak as the wisest of men.

It was perceived as the Mubarak family's first line of defence as it attempted to impose Gamal as Mubarak's successor.

Despite his evident anguish at the current state of affairs, Mr Osman's prognosis for the imminent post-Mubarak era is not entirely bleak.

Sulaiman said: "In the countries are currently experiencing difficult times, President Mubarak decided to resign as president. "

Mr. Mubarak announced late Tuesday he will not seek reelection in September but he vowed to serve out his term.

An Egyptian woman walks with her baby walks in front of a burnt vehicle in Tahrir Square shortly after President Hosni Mubarak resigned.

But he is also seen as a staunch Mubarak loyalist, suggesting that he has no ambition for the job, and he lacks links to the NDP.

On Sunday, Mr. Mubarak said the allegations against him were unfounded.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is due to stand trial in August on charges of murder and corruption, which he denies.

By Thursday, some of those same leaders were meeting with Mr. Mubarak and urging him to step down.

No perfectly formed democracy is about to emerge from the detritus of Mr Mubarak's regime. Disorder seems likely to reign for some time.

Mr Mubarak came from the air force himself; so one way of looking at these appointments is that he remains close to the top brass.

And whatever influence he did or did not have on the downfall of Mr Mubarak, he gives every sign of being satisfied with the result.

Democracy cannot emerge fully formed in a country that has had 30 years of rule under a president like Mr Mubarak.

Mr. Mubarak said Egypt would not fully open its border with Gaza unless the Palestinian Authority is in control.

It turned out they had been hired by a member of Mr Mubarak's party representing the district near the Giza pyramids.

It also announced that President Hosni Mubarak would soon speak to the nation, in what most presumed would be a resignation speech.

Mubarak's step came only one day after he announced that he is handing power to the vice president without stepping down on Thursday night.

In May 2010 he predicted that Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, would fall from power within a year.

Mubarak was typically described as an 'authoritarian' but 'moderate' and 'responsible' leader, almost never as a dictator.

But the administration clearly didn't want Mubarak to be chased out of office, as Zine Abedine Ben-Ali of Tunisia had been.

The terms of trade have shifted swiftly and sharply against Mr Murdoch in a way that Hosni Mubarak might appreciate (see article).

Now many of these deals are likely to be re-examined by whatever political leadership takes Mr Mubarak's place.

and drivers sounded horns across Cairo as the Arab world's most populous country bid a noisy farewell to 30 years of Mr Mubarak's rule.

The moves continued to sharpen the country's clash over whether Mr. Mubarak would resign.

On Friday night, Mr. Mubarak made his first public statement since the unrest had begun.

Egyptians voted in the first parliamentary elections since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak; Islamist parties were the big winners.

Earlier this week, Hosni Mubarak promised to leave office, but not until elections in September.

Obama's conversation with Mubarak was candid, Gibbs said, and he told the Egyptian leader that the time for change had come.

After more than three decades in power, President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP) conducts the political game to his liking.

The towering headquarters of Mr. Mubarak's party is now nothing more than a burnt hulk along the Nile River.

We do not forget that the support of the US government was with Mubarak until his last days.

The judge at the trial of the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has ruled that future proceedings will not be televised.

No doubt Mr Mubarak believed that making a scapegoat of the government would buy him time.

Mubarak has also held reconciliation talks between the Fatah Party and Hamas in an effort to create a unity government.

He suggested that Egypt would not be hostile to the West, but would not be as compliant as Mr. Mubarak either.

The Egyptian constitution had been written with built-in guarantees to keep Mr Mubarak and his political party in power.

Record-breaking numbers of participants are expected on this 11th day of protests against Mubarak's 30 years of authoritarian rule.

Groups of pro-Mubarak demonstrators returned to the northern end of the square around midday.

Mr Mubarak has not put an end to speculation of a dynastic succession by naming an alternative as vice-president.

The doctor said that Hosni Mubarak had merely become dizzy after suffering from low-blood pressure, but the condition was now being treated.

The decision on how long President Mubarak remains in power is "an Egyptian decision, " he said.

Rocks fly through the air as supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak clash with anti-Mubarak demonstrators in Tahrir Square in Cairo.

It should be no surprise, therefore, that the protest movement that brought down Mubarak no longer looked to the constitution for guidance.

Mr. Mubarak has recently said he will not go into exile and wants to die on Egyptian soil.

But Hosni Mubarak's embattled regime was hoping to tie the protesters to a more sinister foodstuff: Kentucky Fried Chicken.

U. S. support for Mubarak was tarnishing America's image, just as Mubarak himself was tarnishing Egypt's image.

But as he entered, pandemonium ensued and the Nobel laureate said little beyond repeating that Mubarak's regime must leave.

A five-day Internet shutdown in Egypt failed to stop the protests that forced President Hosni Mubarak to resign.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is critically ill and may be close to death, reports from Cairo suggest.

If he is gone, a figure with closer ties to the security establishment is likely to become president. The Mubarak era would then truly end.

In June 2009 Mr Obama gave voice to the aspiration in a speech in Cairo, where he was the guest of the then dictator, Hosni Mubarak.

Al Jazeera reported that Gamal and Ala'a, Mr Mubarak's two sons, had landed in London with their families.

Mubarak may as well be put in charge of the investigation of himself and his sons.

Many had come to take part in revelry, but Mr Mubarak's speech continued to be postponed.

A facade of euphemism had to be erected to disguise the nature of Mubarak's regime, and press accounts seemed to bolster it.

She stressed that decisions on Mubarak's future were up to the Egyptian people.

Midway through the meeting, an aide walked in and handed a note to Mr. Donilon. "Mubarak is on, " he read aloud.

He said that corrupt Mubarak loyalists were "hiding under the cover of the judiciary" and declared, "I will uncover them! "

Just days after a revolution toppled Egypt's longtime ruler, Hosni Mubarak, unrest is rippling through the region, and the U.

Much of the confusion was caused by the way Mr. Mubarak left, he said.

Two days before Mr Mubarak went on trial, soldiers backed by armoured vehicles broke up the Tahrir rally.

Waving shoes in the air in a dramatic Arab show of contempt, the crowds in central Cairo chanted: "Down, down Hosni Mubarak. "

The one with Hosni Mubarak (though not the one with Egypt itself) was dropped like a hot potato once the protests began.

And if not Mubarak, the next leader may be poised to start lining his pockets the same way Mubarak did.

We don't want any of those guys to be present in the post-Mubarak government.

The White House said President Obama was informed of Mr. Mubarak's decision to step down during a meeting in the Oval Office.

It has gained credibility for providing social services where the Mubarak government failed.

With Mr Mubarak facing unprecedented popular protests, western leaders have tried to distance themselves from him.

It serves as an umbrella movement for protests against Mubarak's continued rule and in favor of an independent judiciary.

If this consensus coalesces it could result in the emergence of political actors in Egypt capable of challenging Mubarak's regime.

Mubarak's trial and the arrest of Gaddafi's sons for prosecution in the International Criminal Court must fill him with dread.

The Mubarak family reportedly owns properties around the world, from London and Paris to New York and Beverly Hills.

Egypt's Gaza policy, highly unpopular at home and an embarrassment for Mr Mubarak in the Muslim world, has grown increasingly untenable.

It has been "increasingly clear, " a Western diplomat said Friday, that "the army will not go down with Mubarak. "

During his speech, Mubarak said that he will keep his promise to leave office in the fall after new elections.

Within a week, Mubarak was gone.

Televised images of Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak lying on a gurney in a courtroom cage transfixed viewers in the Middle East.

The president is scheduled to meet individually with Jordan's King Abdullah and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.

Mr Mubarak made an audio recording of his speech on Saturday in the wake of the latest protests.

"Mubarak, the plane is waiting for you, " many chanted, referring to Ben Ali's hasty retreat into his Saudi exile.

Mr Mubarak has publicly blamed Hamas for the violence and is keen to prevent it from boasting of a victory.

The catharsis of seeing Mr Mubarak forced to account for this grim past is the least the victims deserve.

AFP, as businessman and political Allah has kept a distance from, and was widely regarded as the previous Gamal Mubarak's successor will be.

"Why? For the democracy, a stable democracy and a stable Pakistan, " said Mubarak.

Thousands of Egyptians spill into the streets of Cairo in late January as street protests swept away Hosni Mubarak.

Obama said over the phone the day he had a conversation with President Hosni Mubarak.

Mr Mubarak's sons Gamal and Alaa have been summoned for questioning as well.

Citadel Capital issued a statement after Mr Mubarak was ousted arguing that democracy would be good for business.

The army will try to ensure Hosni Mubarak is not forced out by the revolt and will instead ease him off stage.

For Mr Ben Ali, and to a lesser extent Mr Mubarak, defending women's rights was a useful sop to the West.

The longer that the military serves as the primary enforcer of Mubarak's strict curfews, the faster its goodwill will evaporate.

Volunteers organized makeshift clinics and security checkpoints, and no pro-Mubarak supporters were allowed in, The Guardian reported.

A month ago, it seemed possible to say, cynically, that nothing had really changed since Mubarak fell.

But some have been stuck in troubles recently, of which former Egypt President Mubarak was the most typical one.

Having chosen to deal with Mr Mubarak through judicial means, Egypt's authorities must now ensure that the trial observes due process.

"We love Mubarak! We love Mubarak! " the men yelled as they charged into the square.

Egypt will need help restarting and then reforming its economy to move from Mr. Mubarak's crony capitalism to a true free market.

Dozens of former officials are to be prosecuted for corruption, in a campaign recently extended to Mr Mubarak and his family.

They had no plan C. Mubarak and his family had created a power elite as lacking in imagination as they themselves had become.

Protesters have spent the past three months agitating for the prosecution of Mr. Mubarak along with top officials of his regime.

Demonstrators in Tahrir Square collect rocks in preparation for a battle with pro-Mubarak supporters.

It will survive Mubarak's departure as long his replacement is cut from the same cloth.

Former president Mubarak is due to stand trial on Wednesday on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters.

Many in Egypt see these events as signs of authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak's vulnerability in an election year.

In addition, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told the U. S. media 3 interview that if he resigned now, Egypt will fall into chaos.

Egypt's Procuratorate had attempted to Mubarak in Cairo, transfer to a military prison hospital for questioning.

In the kingdom, Ms Mubarak would not only be denied the right to vote or run for public office.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned after 18 days of constant protests by Egyptians calling for the end of his 30-year rule.

The new Egyptian order, while it will be loth to break the peace treaty with Israel, will not take the Mubarak line.

This guessing game says a lot about Mr Mubarak's Egypt, where much of the regime and its workings remains opaque.

Embattled President Hosni Mubarak earlier met top commanders during a visit to a military headquarters.

In the two weeks since that first protest, Egyptians of all classes and sects have joined forces to keep up the pressure on Mr Mubarak.

But President Mubarak says he supports Israel's efforts to reach a deal on the creation of a Palestinian state.

State television showed the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces meeting -- conspicuously without Mr. Mubarak present.

The protesters had criticized the army for being too close to the old regime and not swiftly bringing Mubarak to trial.

So the idea that Egyptians would trust him to rule for months more, and possibly engineer a succession to a Mubarak clone, is preposterous.

If the elderly Mubarak is truly planning to install his son, he must engineer the succession in his lifetime.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has phoned Israeli leaders to warn them of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza.

The charge upon protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square today by pro-Mubarak mobs looked rather like a similar tactic.

Yet it may also seek to protect the enormous political and economic privileges it accumulated during Mr. Mubarak's reign.

Mubarak and others are facing their third session of trial on charges they ordered lethal force against protesters during the uprising.

The swiftness of Hosni Mubarak's downfall was stunning, but the sight of an aging autocrat shuffling into ignominy is by now a familiar one.

21Anti-government protesters watch on big screen as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak makes a televised statement to his nation.

The current hope appears to be Mubarak loyalist Gen. Omar Suleiman, just named Egypt's vice president.

Nor should the trial of Mr Mubarak become a substitute for the reforms required to cement Egypt's journey from tyranny to democracy.

He or she would also be obliged to appoint a deputy, something Mr Mubarak avoided until his last days in office.

Both Mubarak and al-Adly could face the death penalty if convicted of ordering violence against protesters during the winter uprising.

The situation has worsened since the toppling of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, in February.

It froze the bank accounts of Ben Ali and Mubarak.

An Israeli Arab girl looks out from a bus at a rally celebrating the resignation of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak in Nazareth, Israel.

President Mubarak and I co-chaired the meeting.

When Mr. Mubarak saw that Mr. Adly wouldn't get the job done, he gave the order for the army to deploy, this person said.

President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt before the resignation, the obvious signs of warming relations between the two countries.

While the precise sum of Mr. Mubarak's fortune isn't known, many Egyptians believe it to be in the tens of billions of dollars.

To be sure, there was, in fact, no coup -- the army was following Mubarak's orders.

Mr Mubarak had already fled Cairo for his residence in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Separately, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas held talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Some Mubarak supporters charged protesters on horseback and camelback, a tactic the regime has employed against past demonstrations.

Mubarak's will to power has known no bounds: he chooses all the country's elites based solely on personal loyalty to himself.

But Mr. Mubarak's efforts to hold on to power, at all costs, will lead to more instability and fury.

He expressed support for the just announced offer from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to host both sides in talks, as early as Wednesday.

(At the first session, one attorney demanded a DNA test to prove that the man in the cage was indeed Mr Mubarak, and not an imposter).

Suzi Levine says there were also ideas from Egypt inspired by the revolution that overthrew president Hosni Mubarak in February.

Egypt has already requested a number of governments to freeze the overseas assets of the Mubarak family.

Mubarak. Balancing national security concerns against moral responsibilities is never pretty.

The prosecutor-general said Mr Mubarak's statement, broadcast on al-Arabiya TV, would not affect the inquiry.

Thanks to the efforts of the Mubarak regime, the institutions of civil society are very weak.

And a clutch of counter-terrorism laws that were widely abused under Mr Mubarak will be revoked.

Mubarak asked the military and the police together to maintain order during the curfew.

Mr Mubarak has been slow to respond throughout the crisis, but his few appearances have been cleverly pitched.

Relations with Saudi Arabia and Jordan have often been frosty. With Egypt under Hosni Mubarak they were icier still.

Mr. Mubarak's speech continued a pattern of making concessions short of what protesters have been demanding for 17 days.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to discuss West Bank settlements.

Mubarak, however, gracelessly refused to co-operate with the patrons who now find him such an embarrassment.

The following day, prosecutors announced that Mr. Mubarak and two sons would be detained for 15 days as part of the probe.

But the incarceration of his sons, many of his closest associates and now Mr Mubarak himself may push those doubts aside, he adds.

Since entering the Sharm el-Sheikh International Hospital for treatment since Mubarak health rumors continue to deteriorate.

But many of the hundreds of thousands of Egyptians who took to the streets to oust Mubarak were driven by economic despair.