Arab astrologer predicts Bush assassination
Oracle famed for prophesying deaths of Diana, Yassin, Arafat
Posted: December 28, 2004
10:44 a.m. Eastern
2004 WorldNetDaily.com
A Tunisian astrologer who reportedly predicted the deaths of Princess Diana,
Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Yasser Arafat says President Bush will be
killed by an assassin's bullet in 2005.
So seriously are Hassan al-Sharibi's predictions taken in the Arab world that a
similar prophecy about Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Mahmoud Abbas
has resulted in increased security around the candidate to replace Arafat as
president of the Palestinian Authority.
Abbas' aides put a "great deal of credence" in the prediction, according to a
source quoted by the Jerusalem Post.
However, the paper tempered its report by saying critics label Sharibi "a quack
with flair who relies on logic and wishful thinking. After all, predicting
Yassin's assassination – he was Israel's 'public enemy No. 1' – and the
death of an already ailing Arafat are hardly major feats."
Soothsaying is not unusual, nor forbidden, in Islam – as it is in
Christianity and Judaism. Muslim caliphs relied on court astrologers as early
as the eighth century, according to the report in the Jerusalem Post.
Sharibi also predicted the sudden death of Saddam Hussein before his trial
begins.
"The Middle East region will be sitting on a volcano in 2005, and the situation
in Iraq will get even more dramatic as Saddam Hussein is expected to die
suddenly before his trial even starts," Sharibi said, according to a report by
United Press International.
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