...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
has started at a court complex in the Egyptian capital Cairo.
The defendants include high-ranking members of the former government, most notably the former secretary of Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP), ex-chairman of the Upper House and the former parliament speaker.
They are all accused of corruption and killing anti-regime protesters during the revolution that toppled Mubarak early in 2011. They allegedly organised gangs of camel riders, who attacked protesters camped out in Cairo's Liberation Square in early February. All defendants in he case and trial known in the local media as the " Battle of the Camel,"have denied the charges.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results...
Field Marshal Mohammad Tantawi, the chief of Egypt's ruling military council who had been summoned by the court to give evidence behind closed doors, refused to testify in the trial.
Mubarak's trial, which began on August 3, follows months of protests demanding justice for the victims killed during the January and February revolution that ended his regime.
The Mubarak family is also facing other allegations of corruption as well as the use of violence against protesters, with the omission investigating the violence against the protesters saying that more than 800 demonstrators were killed.
Egypt's judicial officials say the former dictator and several of his close associates could be executed if found guilty of ordering to shoot anti-government protesters.