Members of the special forces stand guard while former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak lies on a bed while being taken to the courtroom at the police academy in Cairo in this Sept 7, 2011 file photo. Mubarak was 84 and had been sentenced to life in prison earlier in June 2012. Picture taken Sept 7, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]

US President Barack Obama (R) meets with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in this September 1, 2010 file photo. Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for three decades until overthrown in 2011, was on life support in hospital, military officials said on June 19, 2012, but they denied a report he was clinically dead. Earlier the state news agency, amid high tension over the election of a new president, quoted medical sources as saying the former head of state, aged 84, was "clinically dead". [Photo/Agencies]