Mubarak dødssyk

Pre­si­dent Hosni Muba­rak av Egypt har kreft i maven og skjold­brusk­kjer­te­len og har høyst ett år igjen. Det gjør val­get i sep­tem­ber 2011 mer åpent. Stats­le­dere og etter­ret­nings­tje­nes­ter føl­ger spent med.

The Egyp­tian pre­si­dent is suf­fe­ring, in all likeli­hood, from pan­crea­tic and sto­mach can­cer, and has about one year left to live, the Wash­ing­ton Times reported .

The Egyp­tian lea­der met with Prime Minis­ter Ben­ja­min Netanyahu on Sun­day to discuss devel­op­ments in peace talks with the Pale­sti­ni­ans, and also met with U.S. spec­ial envoy to the Middle East George Mitch­ell and Pale­sti­nian Aut­hority Pre­si­dent Mah­moud Abbas.

Haa­retz reported about two weeks ago that Mubarak’s health has taken a serious turn for the worse, with fears that the 82-year-old is suf­fe­ring from cancer.

In the wake of that report and others in Arab news­pa­pers that Muba­rak was seeking furt­her medi­cal treat­ment, Western intel­li­gence agen­cies now believe Muba­rak to be dying from ter­mi­nal can­cer that has spread to his sto­mach and pan­creas, accor­ding to the Wash­ing­ton Times.

The Wash­ing­ton Times quo­tes Ste­ven Cook, a senior fel­low and Egyptian-affairs spec­ia­list at the Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions, as say­ing that seve­ral sources have told him Muba­rak is ailing and “that the end is near.”

Man tror Muba­rak har for­søkt å manøv­rere slik at søn­nen Gamal tar over. Muba­rak har sit­tet i tre årtier og min­ner om en farao. Hvis søn­nen over­tar vil han ha grunn­lagt et dynasti. Ikke alle er like begeist­ret for utsik­ten til det, men det er trangt i det poli­tiske rom­met: tid­li­gere IAEA-sjef Moha­mad ElBa­radei er popu­lær og vur­de­res som en poten­si­ell pre­si­dent. Men det er lagt hind­rin­ger i veien for ham. Hvor skal for­ny­el­sen komme fra? Egypt rives i mange ret­nin­ger. Det mus­limske Bror­skap står klar til å overta.

Report: Western offi­ci­als believe Muba­rak is ter­mi­nally ill