Newspaper headline: Mubarak's lawyer denies former president is 'clinically dead.'
Jagor's Comment: Well, clinically dead or not, Mubarak's life is over. He waited just long enough to be sure that the military had retained and secured control of Egypt as it has in an unbroken line since the young officers overthrew King Farouk in 1952.
After all the sound and fury, all the hundreds of hours of demonstrations carried live around the world, after all the deaths and bloodshed, after all the elections and all the political punditry and prognosticating, it's all back to the status quo ante: the military is running Egypt.
As the French say "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." That old cliché has never been truer.
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