20120722
Press TV
A political analyst tells Press TV that former Egyptian vice president and the country's long-time spy chief Omar Suleiman has buried the dark secrets of Egypt’s old regime with his death.
“If anyone could have told us about the so many violations, corruptions that happened in [former Egyptian dictator Hosni] Mubarak's era, it would have been General Omar Suleiman. So he had so many black secrets that he died before he could share with other people,” said Khaled el-Shami, the political editor of the daily al-Quds al-Arabi in an interview with Press TV on Friday.
He also stated that Suleiman’s death is “a setback to the counterrevolution” in the northeast African state because the deceased was an important figure among the remnants of the Hosni Mubarak regime.
“…I think those [Egyptians] who are pro change and revolutionary will see his death as premature and as a very sad thing because he was the black box of the Mubarak regime,” el-Shami added.
The political analyst made the comments after Egypt's state news agency MENA reported that Suleiman died in the early hours of Thursday at a hospital in the United States.
Several days before Hosni Mubarak's ouster, Suleiman was appointed vice president in January 2011 when the revolution gained momentum. He was directly involved in the killing of protesters.
Before the May poll in the country, Sulieman had officially registered as one of the presidential hopefuls in the country’s first-ever freely contested presidential elections.
His move caused extreme outrage and frustration among many Egyptians who were calling for the prosecution of deposed dictator Mubarak's vice president as many believe that he played a key role in killing peaceful protesters and exporting gas to Israel way below market prices.
The Supreme Presidential Election Commission barred former intelligence chief Suleiman from the May elections.
Suleiman later left Egypt and went to Abu Dhabi with his relatives. He died in the US where he was undergoing medical tests at the age of 76.
|
