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.
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.
Nearly four years ago, on Sept. 14, 2011, five prosecuting attorneys questioned Suleiman. He was asked what he knew about the regime's killing of protesters, high-profile corruption cases and of the Wadi Natrun prison break in which 34 members of the Muslim Brotherhood broke out of jail.
Last month, Morsi became the first former Egyptian head of state to appear in court wearing the red garb of a man condemned to execution after he was sentenced to death, subject to appeal, for his role in breaking out of the prison during the 2011 uprisings.
