Egypt’s Next President?
July 16th, 2008 by Adam
Jeffrey Fleishman at the Los Angeles Times (Hat Tip: Arabic Media Shack) has an interesting profile of Omar Suleiman, the head of Egypt’s foreign intelligence service and possible Presidential successor to Hosni Mubarak. His diplomatic and military ties make him an appealing candidate to Egyptian political power brokers and the West, which sees him as a pragmatist likely to carry out economic reform. Even though President Mubarak’s son, Gamal Mubarak, is supposedly being groomed to take his father’s place he is not viewed with respect or seen as a stabilizing figure as Suleiman is.
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