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Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak dies at 91


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SOURCE: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/egypt-president-hosni-mubarak-dies-91-200225105344417.html
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He was 91.Mubarak served as Egypt's fourth president starting in 1981 until his removal in what became known as the Arab Spring revolution. He was jailed for years after the uprising, but was freed in 2017 after being acquitted of most charges. One of his sons, Alaa, announced over the weekend the former president was in an intensive care after undergoing surgery.His brother-in-law, General Mounir Thabet, told AFP news agency he passed away at Cairo's Galaa military hospital.Egypt's presidency said in a statement that it mourned Mubarak's death as a "military leader and war hero" and has offered its condolences to his family.The former air force officer will be buried in a military funeral but the timing was still unclear, a military source told Reuters news agency.Throughout his rule, Mubarak was a stalwart United States ally, a bulwark against armed groups, and guardian of Egypt's peace with Israel.But to the tens of thousands of young Egyptians who rallied for 18 days of unprecedented street protests in Cairo's central Tahrir Square and elsewhere in 2011, Mubarak was a relic, a latter-day pharaoh.Al Jazeera's Jamal al-Shayyal, reporting from Tunis, Tunisia, where the Arab Spring originated, said it was unclear what exactly killed the former leader."What we're looking at now is a statesman who was so controversial in the past three-four decades of Egypt's history.

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