(CNN) -- The timing of Hosni Mubarak's speech Thursday night to the nation was no accident, said Prof. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a sociologist and visiting scholar at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, who was imprisoned three times by Mubarak.
"He's trying to preempt a call for a general strike tomorrow," Ibrahim told CNN Thursday in a telephone interview, noting that workers began joining the demonstrations early this week and were calling for demonstrations throughout Egypt on Friday. "Usually, after the Friday prayer, people congregate, so he was trying to preempt that."
But Ibrahim -- who said he taught Mubarak's wife and children -- predicted that the Egyptian president will not succeed. "Partly, because he is no longer trusted -- especially by the young people. Maybe the middle-aged or older people, who are not in the street in the first place, would give him the benefit of the doubt."
The 72-year-old professor said he was departing New Jersey on Friday for Egypt to join the protesters.
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Mubarak didn't get the point at all: http://andreasmoser.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/mubarak-doesnt-get-the-point/ I could not make any sense of this speech, except that Mr Mubarak was maybe trying to pave the way to being declared unfit for office on grounds of mental incapability.
ReplyDeleteMubarak didn't get the point at all: http://andreasmoser.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/mubarak-doesnt-get-the-point/ I could not make any sense of this speech, except that Mr Mubarak was maybe trying to pave the way to being declared unfit for office on grounds of mental incapability.
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