This story highlights the kind of delving into the spirit world and the world of black magic that is going on in the country where the great whore, Mystery Babylon, will use sorceries to deceive the world in trade and other world issues. The power of the anti-Christ that comes from Satan is just a breath away from what is going on already in Iraq.

From the Washington Times 08/16/03

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Saddam's sorcerer says he'll be found, but dead

By Niko Price

ASSOCIATED PRESS

HEET, Iraq — The wrinkled old man sprays perfume around the sparse, dingy room, then holds out his hands and feet and instructs one of his visitors to tie him up, knot the cloth three times and blow on it.

The lights die and small red flashes go off beneath the black cloak that covers a bowl of magic powders and water. The visitors feel pokes and jabs and things fluttering over their heads in the darkness — "birds," the wizard says. Water splashes from the bowl.

The genies have arrived, and the questions begin.

Will Saddam be found? A genie answers in the old man's voice: "Yes."

Dead or alive? "Dead."

And the $25 million question: Where is he? "Dhuluaiyah," he says. Dhuluaiyah is a village 55 miles north of Baghdad.

Thousands of magicians, fortunetellers and faith healers make up a huge world of Iraqi spirituality that thrives despite being considered by many Muslims to be sinful.

But this man is different. He was Saddam's own sorcerer, and therefore, for Iraqis, his visions of the dictator's demise carry special weight....

Mr. Al-Asadi reckons that more than half of Iraq's 24 million people use some sort of magic, and a tour of magicians in Baghdad bears out his words.

Unannounced storefronts across Iraq boast a rich array of psychics, fortunetellers, healers and spellmasters, most of whom invoke the Islamic, Christian and even Jewish holy books in their bids to control the genies, or spirits, that many Iraqis believe rule their lives....

"We use the genies or the angels," the magician says. "But we prefer the angels, because the genies lie 75 percent of the time."

Saddam's wizard has been studying magic since he was 10, learning from his aunt's husband. Now 62, he is one of the most revered magicians in Iraq.

He shows visitors a guest book of other powerful clients: a Saudi prince who paid 20,000 riyals, or about $75,000, for a spell to make a woman love him; a Jordanian businessman who wanted his daughter to divorce her abusive husband; a Syrian singer who wanted more success.

For Saddam's family, he dealt mostly with issues of love, faithfulness and sexual prowess. He says he was once imprisoned for six months when Saddam suspected his wife of having the magician throw a spell that made his leg hurt. The magician was pardoned....

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