Oddly Enough - Reuters:Cambodia Saved from Tsunami by Astrologer?

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Cambodia Saved from Tsunami by Astrologer?

 

Mon Jan 3, 9:15 AM ET

 

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Reuters) - Former Cambodian king Norodom Sihanouk

says an astrologer warned him that an "ultra-catastrophic cataclysm"

would strike, but that his country would be spared if proper rituals

were conducted.

 

"My wife and I decided to spend several thousand dollars to organize

these ceremonies so our country and our people could be spared such a

catastrophe," Sihanouk, who abdicated last year, wrote on his Web site

at www.norodomsihanouk.info.

 

Cambodia was unscathed by the 30-foot tsunami waves generated by a

magnitude-9.0 earthquake under the sea off Indonesia's Sumatra island

on Dec.26. The waves rolled through the Indian Ocean, devastating

coastal communities and killing more than 126,000 people.

 

Sihanouk offered his deepest condolences to the families of the dead

and said he would give "a very humble and extremely modest"

contribution of $15,000 to international relief efforts for each of the

stricken countries.

 

Indonesia was the worst hit along with Sri Lanka, India and Thailand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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