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0 Hosni Mubarak, Bashar al-Assad, Muammar Gaddafi: Where Dictators Go to Die. Mubarak, Assad, and other strongmen are running out of exile options because of the ICC.
AP. Sadat, who had angered Islamists due to his peace with Israel, was assassinated during a military parade on Oct. 6, 1981. Mubarak, who was at his side at the time, was suddenly Egypt's No. 1 man.
On Hosni Mubarak and the ‘pharaoh’ myth Asked if Mubarak ever resembled the authoritarian archetype of a “pharaoh” as Russians view their “czars,” Moussa was firm: “No, not Mubarak.
Al-Jazeera’s Osama Saeed says talks about how Al-Jazeera scooped the competition on Gaddafi’s death. Lucas Shaw. ... It’s not quite as simple as that as we’ve seen after Hosni Mubarak fell.
Even in his downfall, Gaddafi had to be different: While Tunisia's Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak stands on trial, Gaddafi sought to cling to power to the ...
(See pictures of the rule of Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi.) One of his sons, Saif al-Islam, had delivered a similar diatribe 48 hours before, promising the regime would fight to the last man.
CAIRO — Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his former interior minister were sentenced to life in prison Saturday after being convicted of complicity in the killing of protesters during ...
‘Mubarak out!’ On January 25, 2011, thousands of Egyptians marched in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities, demanding the departure of President Hosni Mubarak, who had been in power for 30 years.
Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi’s controversial soccer-playing son, Saadi, offers a study in the use of soccer by authoritarian Arab regimes to distract attention from economic and political problems ...