World / Hosni Mubarak Mubarak Won't Go to Luxe German Clinic He's not sick, vice president says By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff Posted Feb 9, 2011 8:09 AM CST Copied Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak listens during a meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov, at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) OK, forget that exit plan: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has said thanks, but no thanks, to an offer of an escape to Germany. Rumors had swirled that Mubarak might be suffering from cancer and could thus make a graceful exit by moving to a swanky German clinic, but Vice President Omar Suleiman rejected that idea today, Der Spiegel reports. Said Suleiman, “We are grateful for the offer from Germany, but the president does not require medical treatment.” (More Hosni Mubarak stories.) Report an error