CAIRO: In Tahrir Square late on Tuesday evening, talk was all about Egypt's future, where the country was heading, the Muslim Brotherhood and Mohamed Morsi. As rumors of ousted President Hosni Mubarak's health began to surface, activist after activist said the former dictator's life was not important. “Yes, I would like to know what his situation is, but at the end of the day, it means little to what is happening in the country,” one middle-aged activist told Bikyamasr.com. Others were shocked at how many questions they received from foreign journalists in the country on the matter. They were angry that the foreign press would focus on Mubarak's health rather than the demonstration and celebration under way in central Cairo. “I just wish the west would understand that we Egyptians want to focus on the future and not the past,” said another activist, in full Muslim Brotherhood garb. Sources inside Cairo's Torah prison said jailed dictator Hosni Mubarak's heart stopped twice and the aging former leader is expected to be transferred to a military hospital in the Cairo suburb of Maadi, state news agency MENA reported on Tuesday. The news agency reported that security sources revealed that Mubarak's heart had to be reactivated by a defibrillator. Other sources said he suffered an aneurism, but neither report could be verified by Bikyamasr.com. The news agency added that the ousted president's health is in “jeopardy" after suffering breathing difficulties and he had to be put on life-sustaining devices. Mubarak, 84, is serving a life sentence (25 years in the Egyptian panel code) in Torah prison for the killing of Egyptian protesters. He was convicted of failing to put an end to the shooting of protesters, as at least 1,000 Egyptians were shot to death in the 18 days of the uprising that ousted his regime in early 2011.
