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30 June, 2005

Sexagenarian sorcerer

Somehow, the Khaleej Times' bizarre, ill-written English adds to the exquisite absurdity of this story:

FUJAIRAH — A sexagenarian Iranian sorcerer, who was also hooked to hash, is now cooling his heels in prison following a five-year jail term slapped on him by the Fujairah Criminal Court.

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Police received a tip-off that the Iranian was conducting his ‘business’ claiming that he had supernatural powers. The indictment sheet states that Samjan practised sorcery and black magic to convince his preys.

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6 Comments:

Blogger Emirati said...

0_o... very strange indeed....

30 June, 2005 16:54  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Whats Sexagenarian?

30 June, 2005 21:17  
Blogger secretdubai said...

Probably something that will get this journal filtered out by the proxy!

Someone in their sixties, apparently.

01 July, 2005 00:14  
Blogger Dhabi Dabbler said...

Odd - only 5 years for magic and hash. Perhaps the voodoo he do so well.

01 July, 2005 12:24  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

was this guy on space-cakes or something whilst writing? KT is one peculiar newspaper!

Big up dubaisecret... hope this stays up - got a mirror up somewhere? Peace.

05 July, 2005 12:07  
Blogger secretdubai said...

Got a mirror, got an off-line back-up ;)

But hopefully I can stay on the good side of the censors...

05 July, 2005 13:14  

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