Deportation looms for tech guru McAfee after heart drama GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Software guru John McAfee, fighting deportation to Belize, was rushed to a hospital in Guatemala on Thursday shortly after his asylum request was rejected, but a suspected heart attack turned out to be stress in a fresh twist to the saga. The 67-year-old U.S. computer software pioneer was taken swiftly from a hospital in a police car out of the sight of media, after earlier arriving in an ambulance lying on a stretcher. His lawyer said he was being taken back to an immigration department cottage where he has been detained since crossing illegally into Guatemala from neighboring Belize, where police want to question him in connection with his neighbor's murder. "He never had a heart attack, nothing like that," said Telesforo Guerra, a former attorney general who had earlier said McAfee had two mild heart attacks. I'm not a doctor. I'm just telling you what the doctors told me," he added. He was suffering from stress, hypertension and tachycardia (an abnormally fast heartbeat). McAfee was posting on his blog www.whoismcafee.com in the morning, the time he suffered the stress attack. "I don't think a heart attack prevents one from using one's blog," Guerra had said at the time. Guerra's assistant, Karla Paz, earlier said she found McAfee lying on the ground and unable to move his body or speak. Guatemala's foreign minister, Harold Caballeros, said earlier McAfee's request for asylum was rejected. Constitutional lawyer Gabriel Orellana, a former foreign minister, said the government should have given more weight to the asylum request rather than rush to a decision. Police in Belize want to quiz McAfee as "a person of interest" in the killing of a fellow American, Gregory Faull, with whom he had quarreled. McAfee says he has been persecuted by Belize's ruling party because he refused to pay around $2 million he says it is trying to hustle out of him, he said. Belize's prime minister denies this and said McAfee, who made millions from the Internet anti-virus software that bears his name, was "bonkers." McAfee later lost much of his fortune and turned to a life of semi-reclusion by the Belizean beach. McAfee spent Wednesday night reading his blog and posting his thoughts on a laptop he said was lent to him by the warden of the cottage where he was staying. One of his readers posted a message offering him just that. John. I have a special ops team near the La Aurora International Airport. I can get you out of jail and provide safe passage back to the States for a fee. Please let me know if this interests you. Guatemala's government originally said the eccentric tech entrepreneur, who loves guns and young women and has tribal tattoos covering his shoulders, would be expelled to Belize within hours. But it later rowed back. The U.S. State Department said it was aware of McAfee's arrest and its embassy was providing "appropriate consular services," but could not comment further. On the island of Ambergris Caye, where McAfee has lived for about four years, residents and neighbors say he is eccentric and at times unstable. I took drugs constantly, 24 hours of the day. I was the worst drug abuser on the planet," he told Reuters just before his arrest. With reporting by Andrew Quinn in Washington; Writing by Simon Gardner and Dave Graham; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Philip Barbara