Mubarak May Join Ex Thailand PM Shinawatra in Montenegro

[L. Coyote]

Source: Sofia News Agency

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak can be granted asylum in Montenegro if he steps down prematurely, according to media reports in the Balkan country.

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According to the press in Montenegro, however, it is very likely that Hosni Mubarak can be granted asylum there because one of the sons of the embattled Egyptian President Gamal is among the owners of Orascom Holding, a multinational Egyptian corporation which singed a contract last year for the construction of tourist complexes with the Montenegrin government

What is more, Montenegro already has a precedent in providing refuge to exiled foreign leaders as in 2010 the former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra, a Thai millionaire who was brought down from power in 2006 .....

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[Bumblebee]

1. This story keeps being posted but it's pure rumor and speculation

just because one dictator is already in residence and Mubarak's son apparently has some business interests there. At this point, one posting of this story in the past hour should have been more than enough.

[L. Coyote]

5. It is a news report from Sofia News Service and speaks for itself.

Time will tell, no doubt. Where do you think Mubarak will be going?

[LiberalEsto]

2. Is there a Home for Decaying Dictators anywhere?

If not, there should be.
Perhaps at Gitmo.

[davidinalameda]

3. hopefully they're saving Gitmo for Castro

and his brother

[harmonicon]

6. It sure would be nice.

Them and all of the other Cuban people who are the rightful owners of the land. ... maybe that wasn't what you meant? Go Imperialism! USA! USA!

[harun]

10. I was thinking more along the lines of a peace park between the U.S.

and Cuba. Once we normalize relations, validate the Cuban people have done a tremendous job in getting everyone Health Care and surviving under years of U.S. oppression.

[davidinalameda]

13. maybe a memorial park for all the people Castro has murdered over the years

[harun]

14. That would be 0, nice try.

[davidinalameda]

16. so the Castro regime hasn't killed anyone since they've been in power?

[harmonicon]

18. Unfortunately, like the US, Cuba still has a death penalty on the books.

However, no one has been executed there since 2003, there is a moratorium on the death penalty, and all death sentences have been commuted. it seems like they're ahead of us there too. Granted, they're probably well behind the US in the fields of fast-food consumption and variety of whitening tooth pastes available in shops. Oohh! Those dastardly Castros!!

[wisteria]

8. Mubarak is a President-not a dictator-technically he was elected by his people. n/t

[bullwinkle428]

17. Elections surely as legitimate as the ones that kept Saddam Hussein in power.

The ones that gave him 99.9% of the vote (or something in that neighborhood).

[BridgeTheGap]

4. Can you take a hint Hosni !?! n.t

[wisteria]

7. I realize his time to lead is up, but I don't see why he has to leave his country.

And, I do not agree with those who want to run him out. Many of his people may not like him or the job he did leading his country, but he has served them for 30 years and there were no complaints for many of those years.I highly doubt allowing his to remain in Egypt now is any real threat to another government. The man is 82 years old. Personally, I find it disrespectful and arrogent to just shove him aside and demand he leave,I think he out to be able to live out the rest of his life in his birth country.

[tavalon]

9. Served them?

Perhaps for dinner, with a Chianti. No, he is a brutal dictator and they want him out. And it's their revolution. He must leave. Brutal dictators don't often get to decide how they live their dotage.

[aquart]

11. Uh, NO.

He has served himself very well for 30 years. The Egyptian people, not so much.

[L. Coyote]

12. What about his crimes and corruption?

He needs to leave to escape justice! Not to mention, make off with his assets, the fruit of corruption.

[BOG PERSON]

15. HANG MUBARAK

HANG THE BASTARD

[harmonicon]

19. real civilized. nt.