Will Son Succeed Hosni Mubarak in Egypt

[Socialist Christian]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=3&u=/ap/20031120/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_mubarak_s_son


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CAIRO, Egypt - Hours after Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak (news - web sites) interrupted a nationally televised address because he was feeling ill, his son appeared before the ruling party assuring its members that the elder Mubarak was well and in control.



Such public appearances by Gamal Mubarak, 40, feed speculation he is being groomed to succeed his 75-year-old father, whose illness Wednesday was described as minor.


Gamal Mubarak has risen quickly since joining the ruling party in 2000. Last year, his father appointed him head of a powerful party policy making committee. In September, the younger Mubarak presented proposals for economic and political reforms to some 2,000 party conference delegates. Throughout the conference, he vowed that the proposals were to be implemented, not mere propaganda.


Gamal Mubarak "is presenting a platform for openness and change," said Hala Mustafa, editor of the "Democracy," the quarterly political magazine of Cairo's Al Ahram Center for Strategic Studies. "His discourse seems compatible with that demanded by advocates of change."

[Dudley_DUright]

1. Gee I hope not

The last thing the Arab world needs is another dynastic succession where a no talent son takes over for a father without the benefit of a fair election. Wait a minute! That happened here. Nevermind.

[Suzette]

2. Who is their Katherine Harris?

...the mind boggles...