Egyptians remember 2011 revolt, US says

As Mubarak is released to house arrest in a military hospital, US says Egyptians don’t want a return to the old regime

By AP 22 August 2013, 8:29 pm

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An Egyptian soldier stands guard as a helicopter carrying former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 85, lands at Maadi Military Hospital from Tora Prison in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, August 22, 2013. Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak has been released from jail and taken to a military hospital in Cairo. (photo caption: AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

WASHINGTON — The White House says Egypt’s 2011 revolution is “still fresh” in the minds of the country’s people and that they have shown little desire to return to the regime of its former longtime ruler.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest commented as a former leader, Hosni Mubarak, was released from prison Thursday and taken to a military hospital in a Cairo suburb. Mubarak was toppled in the 2011 uprising that led to the democratic election of Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi.

Morsi was removed from office last month by a military coup.

Earnest declined direct comment on Mubarak’s status. He says those decisions are being handled by the Egyptian legal system.

Earnest also says there has been no change in the Obama administration’s continuing review of US aid to Egypt.