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# Egypt domino effect: Hosni Mubarak 'very sick'
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## Ex-President Hosni Mubarak is sick and has fainted on at least one
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occasion at the Red Sea holiday villa where he has been sent into internal
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exile, according to sources close to his entourage.
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![Egypt domino effect: Hosni Mubarak 'has cancer'][1]
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Hosni Mubarak pictured in Sharm-el-Sheikh in 2007 Photo: REX
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By Ruth Sherlock in Sharm-el-Sheikh and Richard Spencer in Cairo 7:47PM GMT 14
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Feb 2011
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Mr Mubarak has been said before to have been treated for cancer, which he has
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always denied. But yesterday locals in Sharm-el-Sheikh said they had been told
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by his police guards that he was lying bedbound and needed help in walking.
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Many locals sympathised with the former dictator. "Mubarak is very sick - they
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say he has cancer," said Ahmed, a teacher.
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Their accounts tallied with reports by well-placed sources who had been in
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contact with Mr Mubarak's advisers, several of whom are understood to be with
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him.
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Sameh Shoukry, Egypt's ambassador to Washington, said that he had been
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informed that the president's health had taken a turn for the worse.
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"I am following the rumors and the press reports related to his health, and
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might have received some communication at a personal level indicating that he
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is possibly in somewhat of bad health," he said.
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But he stressed that "I really don't have sufficient information so I wouldn't
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like to speculate" on what, if anything, might be ailing Mubarak.
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The Egyptian daily Masry al-Youm reported that Mr Mubarak had slipped into a
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coma. That was denied by a pro-government newspaper, but it said Mr Mubarak
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was "in a severe psychological condition and is declining treatment, despite
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his illness".
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Mr Mubarak is staying at a villa in the grounds of the Maritim Jollie Ville
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Hotel, which is owned by one of Egypt's leading businessmen, Hussein Salem,
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who is a close member of the ex-president's inner circle.
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The driveway through the neatly manicured grounds and palm trees was yesterday
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lined with barricades and guarded by five uniformed police and six plain-
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clothes security.
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Staff members confirmed that Mr Mubarak was in residence.
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A separate, armed security detail could be seen guarding the presidential
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villa.
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Mr Mubarak has been treated on a number of occasions in Germany, most recently
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to have his gall bladder removed last year.
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William Hague, the foreign secretary, meanwhile told the House of Commons that
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the government had received a request from Egypt to freeze the assets of
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former officials.
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"We will of course co-operate with this request, working with EU and
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international partners as we have done in the case of Tunisia," he said. "If
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there is any evidence of illegality or misuse of state assets we will take
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firm and prompt action.
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