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By Maggie Fick and Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's former autocrat Hosni Mubarak was flown from jail on Thursday in a symbolic victory for an army-dominated old order that has overthrown and imprisoned his freely elected Islamist successor. A blue-and-white helicopter took Mubarak from Cairo's Tora prison, where scores of his supporters had gathered to hail his release. He was flown to a military hospital in the nearby southern suburb of Maadi, officials said. "He protected the country," said Lobna Mohamed, a housewife in the crowd of Mubarak well-wishers. ...
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