Israel Matzav

Mubarak sons argued during father's last speech

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's sons Alaa (right) and Gamal argued bitterly while their father was recording his last speech last Thursday night.

During the recording of the speech Gamal and Alaa engaged in a heated argument that almost developed into a fight. According to the report, Alaa accused Gamal of dragging the country into corruption by helping his friends in the business industry climb the echelons of political power.

"Instead of working to help your father be honored at the end of his life, you helped damage his image this way," Alaa reportedly told his brother Gamal, who was the head of the ruling party's policies committee.

The argument was so loud that almost everyone in the palace heard them, the newspaper reported, adding that some senior government officials interfered to calm them down.

The newspaper said Gamal lost his temper after he heard the recording of the speech that his father was supposed to deliver that night and in which he was going to declare stepping down.

According to the report, American officials were aware of that recording but they did not know that Gamal had prompted his father to discard it and record a different speech, which was delivered that night.

Gamal apparently thought he was President already. Read the whole thing.

Labels: Egyptian regime change, Gamal Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:27 AM