Mubarak's Successor

Hosni Mubarak: Stable condition, eating yogurt

Gregg Carlstrom | March 8, 2010 11:32 AM | 0 | recommend (0) |   |      

The Egyptian president is in stable condition in Heidelberg University Hospital; he's recovering well enough that he's able to sit up and eat yogurt (عربي), according to Al-Masry Al-Youm.

Yogurt

I don't know why, but I have this funny mental image of Mubarak sitting in bed in a well-tailored jacket, with an aide standing by his side, watching bad German daytime television, slowly eating a container of Swiss yogurt and seething about Mohamed ElBaradei.

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