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Mubarak's main man speaks from beyond the grave

Testimony from former Mubarak regime official Omar Suleiman, who died in 2012, has a narrative that Egypt's courts seem to be following in their cases against deposed President Mohammed Morsi.
Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi greets his lawyers and people from behind bars after his verdict at a court on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt June 16, 2015. An Egyptian court sentenced deposed President Mohamed Mursi to death on Tuesday on charges of killing, kidnapping and other offences during a 2011 mass jail break.The general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, and four other Brotherhood leaders were also handed the death penalty. More than 80 others were sentenced to death in absent

Egypt's former President Mohammed Morsi is currently being ferried between a high-security prison and Egypt's courtrooms on a range of criminal charges, and testimony relating to one of the cases has surfaced from an almost-forgotten source who died three years ago.

Omar Suleiman was once the voice of President Hosni Mubarak's dying regime in Egypt after Suleiman emerged from the shadows of 18 years as the dictator's head of intelligence to briefly become Mubarak's vice president. Suleiman may have died in Ohio in July 2012 in one of the finest hospitals in the world and been buried in Cairo, but he is still speaking for the regime today and on topics that are still sensitive.

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