Egypt’s former autocrat Hosni Mubarak was flown from jail yesterday in a symbolic victory for an army-dominated old order that has overthrown and imprisoned his freely elected Islamist successor.

THAT Egypt has a new strongman is no longer in doubt.

Egyptian authorities have released at least 290 Muslim Brotherhood members who were detained during parliamentary elections late last year, a Brotherhood leader said today.

EGYPT yesterday denied remarks by retired US General Tommy Franks that President Hosni Mubarak told him that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.