From Reuters:
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has told U.S. President George W. Bush he considers himself too old to carry out political reforms, an Egyptian dissident who met Bush said in an interview published on Wednesday.
“President Bush told me that President Mubarak claims that age has caught up with him and he is incapable of change, so let’s leave this to the next generation,” sociologist Saadeddin Ibrahim told the independent newspaper al-Dustour.
Ibrahim met Bush in Prague on June 5 as part of a group of dissidents from around the world. He was abroad on Wednesday and could not be contacted immediately, but his office confirmed he had given the interview to al-Dustour.
