Funeral of Omar Suleiman in Cairo

Field Marshal Tantawi, and Maj. Gen. Murad Muwafi took part in the funeral of Solomon (Reuters)

Widow Saturday's funeral in Cairo, Major General Omar Suleiman, the former head of Egyptian intelligence and Vice President Hosni Mubarak deposed, and who died suddenly in the U.S. city of Cleveland last Thursday during a medical check-ups.

Thousands took part in military funeral in which also the President of the Supreme Council of the armed forces, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi and intelligence chief, Major General Murad Muwafi and a number of military leaders, while turns Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, a representative to attend the funeral.

And Solomon had died last Thursday at the age of 76 years at a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio U.S. after suffering a heart attack during a sudden being examined by doctors, according to the Egyptian diplomat in Washington.

Funeral and mourned after the Asr prayer from the mosque Al Rashdan eastern Cairo, where citizens are defending to touch the casket draped with the Egyptian military science, which reported on the effect of a group of soldiers of the armed forces on the shoulders to the horse-drawn cart.

During the procession chanted slogans against Ansar al-Suleiman, head of Mercy and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Is seen by many in Egypt to Solomon as part of the inner circle of Mubarak, who was appointed as his deputy during the uprising that eventually led to his overthrow in February 2011, this was a position vacant since thirty years.

Because of his good relations with the Americans assigned to the age of Solomon "special missions", commissioned especially files related to foreign policy, particularly the Israeli-Palestinian conflict file.

Solomon also sponsored a number of agreements between the Palestinians and the Israelis and play an important role in the cease-fire between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), following the Israeli war on Gaza in 2009.

Suleiman was left Egypt to Dubai, United Arab Emirates after ruled out for the presidential race in the first presidential elections in the country after Mubarak on May 23 and 24 / May, then went to Germany and then to the United States for treatment, said one official presidential campaign .