palaces

Do you see how many palaces Sadat and Mubarak have all over Egypt? More luxurious than Saddam's palaces which were the target of an American media obsession.  Many of the palaces are inherited from King Faruq's time: I visited the `Abdin Palace as a child in Cairo and I remember how impressed my siblings and I were with the bath tub of Mr. Faruq.  Of course, Nasser never occupied any of those palaces as a matter of principle.  Sadat reversed that and he and his wife alledgedly helped themselves to the valuable pieces in them.