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nitpicker

(7,153 posts) Fri Mar 24, 2017, 06:18 AM Mar 2017

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak walks free

Source: BBC

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak walks free

19 minutes ago

From the section Middle East

Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's ex-president, freed after he was cleared of murdering protesters in 2011 Arab Spring protests
(headline only)

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39378045

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Egypt's Hosni Mubarak walks free (Original Post) nitpicker Mar 2017 OP

O M G ! Rustyeye77 Mar 2017 #1

raise your hand if you're surprised maxsolomon Mar 2017 #2

Shades of Pinochet. tenorly Mar 2017 #3

Rustyeye77

(2,736 posts)

1. O M G !

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Fri Mar 24, 2017, 11:58 AM

Mar 2017

maxsolomon

(33,279 posts)

2. raise your hand if you're surprised

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Fri Mar 24, 2017, 12:53 PM

Mar 2017

given that he spent the trial on a hospital gurney, presumably at death's door, I am surprised he walked at all.

tenorly

(2,037 posts)

3. Shades of Pinochet.

Reply to maxsolomon (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 24, 2017, 01:29 PM

Mar 2017

This was the Nazi-trained pedophile arriving in Santiago in 2000 after successfully fooling UK courts into believing he was too ill and senile to stand trial in London:

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