EGYPTIAN 'PHARAOH' DETHRONED AMID GUNFIRE AND BLOODCritics said the president would never leave voluntarily but few political rights and falling prosperity forced an endHosni Mubarak's presidency was born amid gunfire and bloodshed and ended in an equally dramatic fashion. As vice-president, Mubarak was sitting next to Anwar Sadat on 6 October 1981 at an army parade in the Cairo district of Nasser City when soldiers with Islamist sympathies turned...
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