Survivor no more

Mubarak lasted three decades as president but as the crowds in Tahrir Square chanted ‘Leave! Leave!’, he ended his tenure as a symbol of all that is wrong with Egypt, says Lee Keath

HE survived assassination attempts and wave after wave of Mideast crises, a solid ally of the West whose stable image reassured many Egyptians.

Hosni Mubarak ended his presidency yesterday as a symbol of what was wrong with Egypt: the repression, the corruption, the lost hopes of a swelling, impoverished class.