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July 28, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/27/AR2005072702296.html

Mubarak Heads for 5th Term

(Washington Post) Anthony Shadid - Hosni Mubarak, 77, Egypt's president for 24 years, will announce his candidacy for a fifth six-year term Thursday. There's a popular joke these days in Cairo. Mubarak's aide asks the president, "Isn't it time you write a farewell speech to the Egyptian people?" The president looks at him, confused. "Where are they going?" he asks.

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