Mubarak asks World leaders to save him

Egyptian daily Ruz al-Yusuf reported on Saturday that Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak sent nine letters to Arab and Western states asking to mount pressure on Egyptian authorities to release his family members and not sentence him to death. Ruz al-Yusuf reported that Susan Mubarak sent nine personal letters dictated by her husband to a senior attorney, in order for him to deliver them to heads of states which had good relations with Mubarak. In the letters, which were most likely addressed to the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Lebanon, the ailing Mubarak pleaded with the leaders to mount pressure on Egyptian authorities to allow his two sons, Gamal and Alaa – who are also facing trial – and his wife to leave the country without being sent to jail. Mubarak also reportedly plead with American officials to dissuade Egyptian authorities from sentencing him to death, claiming that the current rulers of Egypt and his historic rivals – the Muslim Brotherhood – will not allow the court to acquit him.