The Mubarak Pool

[Asher]

February 11

[Wezil]

I'll put your prediction in with DaShi's.

[Docfeelgood]

Feb 11

[Dinner]

Looks like Sloww won the pool.

[DaShi]

Hey! I still voted when there was some semblance of uncertainty.

[Wezil]

Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner.

Deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has arrived in Germany for medical treatment, a reliable Egyptian newspaper reported on Monday.

The newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm said it has learned Mubarak, 83, went to Baden-Baden from the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt where he had fled with his family after resigning Friday in the face of an 18-day popular uprising.

The German ambassador to Egypt, Michael Bock, said at a news conference in Cairo Monday that “Germany did not offer to treat [Mubarak], and Egypt did not submit a request for the treatment of [Mubarak] in Germany,” the newspaper reported.

The state-owned Egyptian newspaper Al-Gomhuria reported Mubarak was suffering a “severe psychological condition and is declining treatment, despite his illness.”

Mubarak previously went to Germany for medical treatment, Al-Masry Al-Youm said. Last March, he received surgery for an inflamed gallbladder in Heidelberg. In 2004, he had back surgery in Germany.

Al-Masry Al-Youm on Sunday quoted “well-informed sources” as saying Mubarak had fallen into a coma in Sharm el-Sheikh and was receiving medical treatment. Monday’s report made no reference to the coma.

Egypt's ambassador to the United States, Sameh Shoukry, said on NBC’s Today Show on Monday that Mubarak was “possibly in somewhat of bad health.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/938560--mubarak-in-germany-for-medical-treatment-report?bn=1

gribbler takes the prize.