Summary: Hosni Mubarak's life has been described as Skakespearean, the military man whose politician ascension was enabled by the assassination of another Anwar Sadat. His greatest humiliation would come with modern Egypt's greatest triumph, the demonstrations of the Arab Spring that forced him from power and saw him frail and hated, propped up on a stretcher at his own trial. And now as his successor is about to ascend, Hosni Mubarak returns to the headlines hovering near death. Today, we learn more about the Hosni Mubarak few understood.
