Showing posts with label hosni mubarak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hosni mubarak. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Mubarak has heart attack during questioning

From Infowars.

COMMENT: Gee, Hosni Mubarak is a man of bad luck. First he has a reported ‘stroke’ while being ousted from Egypt. Now, his heart fails in the middle of questioning over alleged abuses of power. Perhaps this inconvenience is a little like Milošević’s death while being held at the Hague during his extended trial, or like many other coincidence cases.


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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Mubarak and Ben Ali comas: What would Tacitus say?

From Infowars and The Times.

So the story is that Mubarak and Ben Ali are now both desperately ill — indeed, it is said, in a coma. And there have been a handful of sharp comments, wondering what the “Deposed Dictator Syndrome” (DDS) actually is — and how convenient it might be as a protective device against assassination.
I couldn’t help thinking how Roman it all looked. There is a whole series of similar scenarios, brilliantly concocted by the brilliant Tacitus (I say ‘concocted’ because he cant possibly have known what went on). They are all centred on the grimy last moments of autocrats and dictators.
The basic rule for Tacitus is that despots don’t die a natural death...

Friday, February 18, 2011

Exiled Tunisian leader Ben Ali in serious condition after stroke

mmm...not just Mubarak but also Ben Ali also has a stroke.

From Digital Journal


Former Tunisia's President Ben Ali, who is in exile in Saudi Arabia, has suffered a stroke and was reported to be in a grave condition in a hospital, according to a family friend...