Egypt

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, meets with U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney at the Presidential palace in Cairo on May 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak speaks after receiving the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding, in New Delhi, India, on Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak gives a May Day speech at the Labor Federation in downtown Cairo on May 1, 1982. (AP Photo/Bill Foley, File)

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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak visit a panorama and weapons exhibition of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war in Cairo on June 1, 1990. (AP Photo/File)

Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, left, joins Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the start of a historic meeting in Cairo on Oct. 6, 1993. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin, File)

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, shakes hands with Leah Rabin, left, widow of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Rabin's funeral in Jerusalem, on Nov. 6, 1995. (AP Photo/Santiago Lyon, File)

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Jordan's King Abdullah II, right, and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak cut a green ribbon to officially linking the two countries' electric grids in Taba, Jordan, on Tuesday March 16, 1999. ( AP Photo/Pool)

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Egyptian anti-government protesters shout in front of the Egyptian television headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, on Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Thousands of Egyptian anti-government protesters march in Alexandria, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 11, 2011, hours before the government announced that President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down. (AP Photo/ Tarek Fawzy)

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Anti-government protesters make traditional Muslim Friday prayers at the continuing demonstration in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, on Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

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Anti-government protesters watch on a big screen as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak makes a televised statement to his nation in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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'GET OUT': Anti-government protesters scream with rage in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak makes a televised speech to the nation on Thursday. The president did not step down as the protesters had hoped he would. (Associated Press)

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Anti-government protesters take off their shoes and hold them in the air, symbolically saying "Take a walk," in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo on Thursday as they react to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's televised statement to the nation. (Associated Press)

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Illustration: Egypt by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak begins to make a televised statement to his nation in this image taken from TV aired Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Following more than two weeks of protests, anti-government demonstrators have been given hope by official statements suggesting that Mubarak may step down after 30 years in power. (AP Photo/ Egypt TV via APTN)

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Egypt's Defense Minster Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi attends a meeting of the military supreme council in this image taken from TV Thursday Feb. 10, 2011. President Hosni Mubarak will meet the demands of protesters, military and ruling party officials said Thursday in the strongest indication yet that Egypt's longtime president may be about to give up power and that the armed forces were seizing control. (AP Photo/Nile TV via APTN)