Hosni Mubarak has died (conflicting reports)

[DJKeefy]

Egypt's ousted leader has been pronounced clinically dead after efforts to resuscitate him failed.

Toppled president Hosni Mubarak has been pronounced clinically dead upon his arrival at a military hospital in the upscale neighbourhood of Maadi, according to Egyptian state news agency MENA.

Medical sources told MENA that Mubarak's heart stopped after efforts to resuscitate him failed.

However, Mubarak's lawyer Farid El-Deeb told Al-Hayat television channel that he is still alive. Efforts to revive him are beginning to have some effect, he added.

Ahram Online's correspondent overlooking Tahrir Square reports fireworks and cheering after news began trickling in of the imprisoned president's apparent death. Demonstrators began playing the national anthem over loudspeakers. The majority of the gathered crowd are Muslim Brotherhood supporters, with other groups having largely pulled out of the flashpoint square.

Mubarak was transferred to Maadi's military hospital amid tight security measures. Media personnel were denied entry to the hospital, according to Al-Ahram's Arabic news portal.

Earlier the 84-year-old former president suffered a stroke, but paramedics at the Tora Prison hospital resuscitated him with electric shocks.

Mubarak was incarcerated in Tora Prison after being given a life sentence early this month for failing to stop the killing of peaceful protesters. For months during his trial, he was held captive at the International Medical Centre, a military hospital on the Cairo-Ismailia road.

It is understood that Mubarak is suffering from cancer and heart problems. During his stay at the Medical Centre, it was reported on quite a few occasions that his heart had stopped and had to be restarted by doctors.

Revolutionary forces called for Mubarak's incarceration in Tora Prison before the verdict, to join the rest of the defendants from the former regime who were kept at the facility during their trials.

The ousted president's condition was occasionally cited as a reason to keep him away from Tora, but after being sentenced to life imprisonment, he was transferred to the notorious facility, reportedly while shouting and ranting.

Source: http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/45629.aspx

[DJKeefy]

Confusion Over Fate Of Egypt's Ex-President (Hosni Mubarak)

Egypt's ousted ex-president Hosni Mubarak has been reported as "clinically dead" by local media, however, other sources have suggested he is "unconscious" and on life support.

The 84-year-old earlier suffered a stroke and was transferred to hospital from prison where he has been held since he was sentenced to life over the murder of protesters.

Speaking from Cairo in Egypt, Sky's Middle East correspondent Emma Hurd, said: "It is still a confusing picture.

"First of all we had this report from MENA, which is the official Egyptian state news agency, saying Hosni Mubarak's heart had stopped, that they had tried to defibrillate him, that did not work, and then he was declared 'clinically dead'.

"But that has been followed up by other reports quoting security sources, saying that he is actually unconscious in hospital at the moment, he's been transferred from prison to a military hospital and he is on a respirator, unable to breathe by himself.

"Those security sources are saying that it is too early to declare him 'clinically dead'."

The official MENA news agency had reported that Mubarak was "clinically dead" after "his heart had stopped beating and did not respond to defibrillation".

But security sources said he was "unconscious and on a respirator".

His health has fluctuated since the end of his trial, with doctors defibrillating him twice on June 11.

He has reportedly suffered acute depression, as well as periodic increases in blood pressure and shortness of breath.

Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment earlier this month after he was convicted for complicity in the murder of protesters during the uprising that forced him from power.

The ex-dictator, said to be too sick by his doctors for a jail cell, had been held in a luxury medical suite at a military hospital throughout the court proceedings.

Reports of his death came as thousands of protesters gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square against the military's move to grant itself sweeping powers.

Both the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq, Mubarak's former prime minister, have claimed victory in Sunday's presidential election run-off.

Sky's Emma Hurd added: "I have to say a ripple of celebration went through the crowd in Tahrir Square gathered to protest against military rule here, and calls for a swift handover to the new president, once he's elected, once the results are known here.

"So there was a feeling of celebration initially. Now there's a bit more confusion about what's going on," she added.

Source: http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16249962

[Horus]

The news here is just reporting that he is seriously ill, no mention of him being dead.

[DJKeefy]

Posted by HEPZIBAH on luxor4u forums:

:oo Sky are now saying that Mubarak is off life support!
They said he was in a better state of health than last night. Well he couldn't be in a worse state - afterall, last night he was DEAD :hf:

[Horus]

If nothing else it keeps him out of prison and it will be a good distraction when they announce that it was not the MB that won, but rather Shafique after a recount. Then once the protests start up again the army can jump in to restore law and order and a grateful population fed up with having no police, petrol shortages, increases in crime and no tourists will start to think that maybe things were not too bad really and if truth be told, maybe they were not so bad when compared with what is to come.