‘Go Mubarak Go’....

President Hosni Mubarak's family fortune could be as much as $70bn (£43.5bn) according to analysis by Middle East experts.

Much of his wealth are in British and Swiss banks or tied up in real estate in London, New York, Los Angeles and along expensive tracts of the Red Sea coast.

After 30 years as president and many more as a senior military official, Mubarak has had access to investment deals that have generated hundreds of millions of pounds in profits. Most of those gains have been taken offshore and deposited in secret bank accounts or invested in upmarket homes and hotels.

source: the guardian

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A failed assassination bid against Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman has left two of his bodyguards dead, according to a media report.

The incident was reported by Fox News which said, "Such an attempt on the life of Omar Suleiman would mark an alarming turn in the uprising against the government of President Hosni Mubarak, who only recently named Suleiman as vice president in an effort to quell the unrest and possibly line up a successor."

TIMELINE

Hosni Mubarak has ruled Egypt for 29 years.

May 4, 1928: Mubarak is born in a village in Egypt's Nile Delta.
Oct 14, 1981: Named President after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
June 26, 1995: Survives assassination attempt in Ethiopia.
March 2005: Hundreds join street protests organised by Kifaya [Enough] Movement to oppose a fifth term for Mubarak or plans to allow his son, Gamal, to succeed him.
May 11, 2005: Constitution changed, contested presidential elections allowed.
Sept 27, 2005: Mubarak is sworn in for a fifth consecutive term after winning the first contested presidential election.
Nov 28, 2010: Opposition parties claim parliamentary elections marred by fraud.
Jan 25, 2011: Countrywide anti-government protests demand Mubarak's ouster.
Jan 28, 2011: Mubarak orders army onto the streets to restore order.
Jan 29, 2011: A wave of looting after police withdraw from Cairo, other cities.
Feb 1, 2011: Mubarak announces he will not stand for president again, rejecting calls to immediately step down.
Feb 4, 2011: Protesters, insisting Mubarak must stand down, call it D-Day (Day of Departure).

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