Circulatory Failure

Many go into the Cairo police stations alive and come out dead. Circulatory failure is what they put on the death certificates. That means one of two things. You have been so brutally beaten to the head and genitals that you stop breathing or you have had a heart attack while squeezed into a cell with hundreds of others in stinking, rat-infested conditions.

One of the founding fathers of circulatory failure, the late President Anwar Sadat, is shown above. He was part of the group of Free Officers who took over the country sixty-three years ago and set in sequence chronic, how shall I put it, circulatory failure. Thousands and thousands over the years have perished from it. His successor in office, the recently-acquitted President Mubarak, gave a radio interview yesterday saying that the present president, Sisi, should be supported as 'a son of the military' who knows what national sovereignty is all about. It's an interesting condition with often fatal symptoms.

Regular followers will know I was in town the day Sadat suffered his own circulatory failure sic thirty seven bullets fired into his upper body. What goes round comes round . . . circulatory, no?