Tunisian astrologer Hassan Al Sharibi on Tuesday predicted the capture of Osama Bin Laden and the death of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein next year.
Sharibi, who gained fame after predicting the death of Princess Diana in 1997 and the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1991, also said that it is possible that Syria and Israel might engage in a new war.
"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 predicted.
"Osama Bin Laden will be captured and tried quickly to make up for US setbacks in Iraq," he said.
Sharibi said that a senior Iraqi cleric would be the target of an assassination attempt, leading to an unprecedented rise of violence in Iraq and that several Palestinian leaders would be targeted by assassins, further complicating the situation in the Palestinian territories.
He said that another scandal would hit US forces in Iraq, worse than the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal, forcing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign.
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